Pranaitis testified that the murder of Yushchinsky was a religious ritual, associating the murder of Yushchinsky with the blood libel, a hoax believed by many Russians at the time.

I became acquainted with Pranaitis and am firmly convinced that he is the person who knows the problem, about which he will talk, in depth ... Everything, then, will depend on which arguments priest Pranaitis will furnish, and he has them, and they're shattering for the Jewry.

One prosecution witness, presented as a religious expert in Judaic rituals, was a Catholic priest, Justinas Pranaitis from Tashkent, well known for his antisemitic 1892 work Talmud Unmasked.

: The course of the trial will depend on how the ignorant jury will perceive arguments of priest Pranaitis, who is sure about the reality of ritual murders.

: Cross-examination of Pranaitis has weakened evidentiary value of his expert opinion, exposing lack of knowledge of texts, insufficient knowledge of Jewish literature.

Because of amateurish knowledge and lack of resourcefulness, Pranaitis ' expert opinion is of very low value.

File: Beilis Affair expert Pranaitis. jpg | Father Justinas Pranaitis, expert for prosecution

The rapidly changing style that Sharaku utilized, with four distinct stylistic changes in his short career, lends credibility to this claim.

Politically, he warned the Progress Party particularly against " giving in " regarding the immigration policy, which he said was one of the most important issues for the party, and that the party in such a scenario would fall rapidly in polls, and lose credibility.

However, Fabre himself was rapidly revealed to have been acting, in part, as part of an elaborate attempt to conceal his own involvement in a scandal surrounding the liquidation of the French East India Company, and his credibility was thereby diminished.

The CCST program, established in the early 1990s, meeting an obvious industry need, rapidly gained credibility.

This Marxist mode of thinking rapidly lost credibility after the fall of the Soviet Union and with it much of Rudé ’ s work as well.

The Ioannides method of forming a government dealt yet another blow to the rapidly diminishing credibility of the regime both at home and abroad.

( That they didn't take up the opportunity to cross-examine the Bosnian doctor imprisoned at Trnopolje, who featured in the ITN stories and was called to testify on the conditions and others suffered, was perhaps the moment any remaining shred of credibility for LM's allegations evaporated ).

Moreover, the ongoing war in Afghanistan, and the mishandling of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, which Gorbachev tried to cover up, further damaged the credibility of the Soviet government at a time when dissatisfaction was increasing.

Blacklisting effectively ended in 1960 when it lost credibility.

While falling foul of Godwin's law tends to cause the individual making the comparison to lose their argument or credibility, Godwin's law itself can be abused as a distraction, diversion or even as censorship, fallaciously miscasting an opponent's argument as hyperbole when the comparisons made by the argument are actually appropriate.

** For instance, when a magazine claims that An MIT professor predicts that the robotic era is coming in 2050, the use of big-name " MIT " ( a world-renowned American university for the advanced research in math, science, and technology ) establishes the " strong " credibility.

He is apolitical, which gives added credibility at home and abroad when representing the financial sector.

In 1676, his credibility was questioned when he sent the Royal Society a copy of his first observations of microscopic single-celled organisms.

Diego Giannonea, an Italian political science professor, wrote that the preponderance of governmental funding was " unusual, especially when one considers that the organizations involved in the assessment and monitoring of human rights, democracy and freedom in the world refuse on principle — as a guarantee of their independence and credibility — government funding ".

These unknowns, indeterminacy and ignorance, that exist in science are often “ transformed ” into uncertainty when reported to the public in order to make issues more manageable, since scientific indeterminacy and ignorance are difficult concepts for scientists to convey without losing credibility.

According to NASA, " the concept of accessing a significant amount of useful energy from the ZPE gained much credibility when a major article on this topic was recently 1st, 2004 published in Aviation Week & Space Technology, a leading aerospace industry magazine ".

Holmes first gained credibility as a contender when he upset the hard-punching Earnie Shavers in March 1978.

The expression denotes the moment when a television series loses its credibility due to predictable repetition or contrived extensions of its theme, usually as a result of the writers being unable to maintain its quality indefinitely.

Phoenix was committed to gaining credibility by his own merit and so he maintained that the band would not use his name when securing performances that were not benefits for charitable organizations.

Bethmann Hollweg, all credibility and power lost, remained in office until July that year, when a Reichstag revolt, resulting in the passage of the famous Peace Resolution by an alliance of the Social Democratic, Progressive, and Center parties, forced his resignation and replacement by the political nonentity Georg Michaelis.

His credibility with the common soldier increased in September 1943, when he was wounded in the shoulder by a German mortar while visiting a machine gun crew near Monte Cassino.

In contemporary international relations, the concept of " credibility " resembles that of honour, as when the credibility of a state or of an alliance appears to be at stake, and honour-bound politicians call for drastic measures.

He also presented cases in which a dominant paradigm had withered away because its lost credibility when viewed against changes in the wider intellectual milieu.

Life lost credibility with many readers when it supported Clifford Irving, whose fraudulent autobiography of Howard Hughes was revealed as a hoax in January 1972.

The Government's credibility was damaged when the PSOE revealed at the end of the year that the ranks of top Spanish civil servants had increased 15 % over the previous year despite PP promises to cut the bureaucracy.

Investigative journalist Max Wallace noted that " whatever credibility this absurd claim may have had was soon undermined when James M. Miller, a former Dearborn Independent employee, swore under oath that Ford had told him he intended to expose Sapiro.

But when tried for the shooting, his defense team effectively challenged the credibility of the doorman, and Gigante was acquitted in 1958 on charges of attempted murder.

Browning's reputation and perceived credibility were boosted when he claimed in various promotional flyers and advertisements to have predicted ( among various other events ) the Loma Prieta earthquake of October 17, 1989.

Behavior of this kind by figures in the public eye did much to erode the credibility of conventionalism in relationships, especially when such conventionalism brought actual unhappiness to its practitioners.

This information was transmitted at the behest of the British High Command in order to increase his credibility to the Germans and was done at a time when it was too late to fortify Normandy.

His instant credibility when he's talking to kids makes him an incredible mentor.

His main defense strategy during the prosecution was to attack the credibility of Giacalone's witnesses by discussing their crimes committed before their turning states '.

In order to maintain credibility in the Arab world and maintain stability at home, on 30 May 1967, King Hussein signed a mutual defense treaty with Egypt, and handed over command of the Jordanian military to Egyptian generals.

The issue of the insanity defense was more thoroughly explored in the novel, and a key scene in which Biegler destroys the credibility and professionalism of the prosecution's psychiatric expert for proffering an opinion without examining the subject is watered down in the film almost to insignificance.

Larner denied this second argument as well, but the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously held that the evidence of various deals made between the prosecution and witnesses Bello and Bradley should have been disclosed to the defense before or during the 1967 trial as this could have " affected the jury's evaluation of the credibility " of the eyewitnesses.

An example of this use of the term occurred during the O. J. Simpson murder trial, when critics accused the defense of " playing the race card " in presenting Mark Fuhrman's racist past ( e. g., his recorded use of the word " nigger " in addition to his being accused of tampering with murder evidence in prior cases, as well as his use of the Fifth Amendment to avoid potential self-incrimination upon questioning ) as a reason to draw his credibility as a witness into question.

Touring with the popular McDowell bought Petra credibility with youth leaders and church pastors, who were impressed by the speaker's forceful defense of Christian rock music.

Following Brady, the prosecutor must disclose evidence or information that would prove the innocence of the defendant or would enable the defense to more effectively impeach the credibility of government witnesses.

Catts took up a much more moderate position and was a significant boost to the credibility of the anti campaign, and in addition favored conscription for home defense, which was a more popular platform to placate those with concerns about home security.