Testifying before the House of Commons Ethics Committee on December 13, 2007, Mulroney said the cash payments were for lobbying foreign leaders to buy armored vehicles from Thyssen industries, a company Schreiber represented.

Testifying before the HSCA, Witt said " I think if the Guinness Book of World Records had a category for people who were at the wrong place at the wrong time, doing the wrong thing, I would be No. 1 in that position, without even a close runner-up.

Testifying before the same committee two days later, Director of CSIS Jim Judd said that O ' Brian " may have been confused " and " venturing into a hypothetical ", and would send the committee a clarifying letter.

Testifying before the United States Congress in 2010, Neil Armstrong opposed an administrative scrap of Constellation, stating " a return to the Moon would be a most productive path to expanding the human presence in the Solar System.

Testifying before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on August 28, 2008, Sekou Conneh said that, during the war, Sierra Leone and Guinea had allowed the LURD rebels free passage " through their borders with our arms without any questions from them ".

Testifying before the British-appointed education commission, Sir Syed controversially exclaimed that " Urdu was the language of gentry and Hindi that of the vulgar.

Testifying before the state Senate Judiciary committee, Nigel Payne, CEO of Sportingbet and owner of Paradise Poker, pledged to relocate to the state if the bill became law.

Testifying before the Interstate Commerce Commission in Chicago, President Reidy claimed, " The simple fact is that there is just too much transportation available between the principal cities we serve.

Testifying before a U. S. House committee on March 6, 1942, Olson, a longtime supporter of nearly every Roosevelt position on economics, politics and foreign policy, supported the move wholeheartedly.

Testifying before Congressional hearings on Statehood, Campbell explained:

Testifying again before HUAC in 1950, Lee Pressman named Witt as a member of the CPUSA and the " Ware group.

Testifying in his own defence, Bokassa stated: " I'm not a saint.

Testifying on behalf of Schiavo's parents, Hammesfahr told a court that, contrary to majority medical opinion, which stated that Schiavo was in an irreversible persistent vegetative state, she was in a minimally conscious state and might recover.

Testifying at a January 29, 2008 House Judiciary Committee hearing on reform of the state secrets privilege, EFF attorney Kevin Bankston contended that the administration's interpretation of the privilege was overly broad, and failed to properly consider the evidentiary procedures provided for by Section 1806 ( f ) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Testifying in court was also difficult ; George Fox, Quakers ' founder, famously challenged a judge who had asked him to swear, saying that he would do so once the judge could point to any Bible passage where Jesus or his apostles took oaths.

Testifying in self-defense, Bülow denied any such act but remarked that he had heard unsavory rumors about Eulenburg.

Testifying as a prosecution witness, Russert said that although he and Libby did indeed speak on July 10, 2003, they never discussed Plame during their conversation.

What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.

The result is that the State Department's perpetual position before Congress is the resigned pose of the whipping boy who expects to be kicked whenever the master has had a dyspeptic outing with his wife.

A measure passed by Congress just before adjourning softened the ruling's impact, on prior-year returns still under review, for clay-mining companies that make brick and tile products.

He expanded his war powers, and imposed a blockade on all the Confederate shipping ports, disbursed funds before appropriation by Congress, and after suspending habeas corpus, arrested and imprisoned thousands of suspected Confederate sympathizers.

On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee tabled a resolution before the Continental Congress declaring the colonies independent ; at the same time he also urged Congress to resolve “ to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances ” and to prepare a plan of confederation for the newly-independent states.

He argued Congress could not decide either for or against slavey before a territory was settled.

" On July 27, 1868, the day before the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, U. S. Congress declared in the preamble of the Expatriation Act that " the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ," and ( Section I ) one of " the fundamental principles of this government " ( United States Revised Statutes, sec.

Soon after 21: 00 on December 14, 1989, Sakharov went to his study to take a nap before preparing an important speech he was to deliver the next day in the Congress.

The Senate refused to meet to hold an impeachment trial before the end of the old term, so the trial was held over until the next Congress.

On the morning of March 12, 1947, President Harry S. Truman appeared before Congress to ask for $ 400 million of aid to Greece and Turkey.

For example, the chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank is appointed by the President of the U. S. ( all nominees for this post are recommended by the owners of the Federal Reserve, as are all the board members ), his choice must be confirmed by the Congress, and he must appear and testify before congress twice a year.

In practice, positions within the Central Committee and Politburo are determined before a Party Congress, and the main purpose of the Congress is to announce the party policies and vision for the direction of China in the following few years.

Despite the ban on factionalism, the Workers ' Opposition continued its open agitation against the policies of the Central Committee, and before the 11th Party Congress ( March 1922 ) the Workers ' Opposition made an ill-conceived bid to win support for their position in the Comintern.

NATO did not initially have strong bipartisan support in Congress at the time he assumed his command ; Eisenhower unhesitatingly advised the participating European nations that it would be incumbent upon them to demonstrate their own commitment of troops and equipment to the NATO force before it would come from a war weary United States.

* 1848 – California Gold Rush: In a message before the U. S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.

* 1930 – Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress and asks for a US $ 150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.

On June 22, Allen and Seth Warner appeared before Congress in Philadelphia, where they argued for the inclusion of the Green Mountain Boys in the Continental Army.

Allen appeared before the Continental Congress as early as September 1778 on behalf of Vermont, seeking recognition as an independent state.

At an extraordinary Congress in Brussels held on 30 April 2004 the day before the enlargement of the European Union, the ELDR Party incorporated itself under Belgian law and later became a European political party.

" In 1937, speaking before the Women's Division of the American Jewish Congress, LaGuardia called for the creation of a special pavilion at the upcoming New York World's Fair, " a chamber of horrors " for " that brown-shirted fanatic ".

* Stratospheric ozone, myths and realities: Testimony of S. Fred Singer, Scientific Integrity and Public Trust: The Science Behind Federal Policies and Mandates: Case Study 1 — Stratospheric Ozone: Myths and Realities, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Science, US House of Representatives, 104th Congress, 1st Sess., September 20, 1995 31 ( Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1996 ).

I have watched kids testifying before Congress.

King Charles I met his children for the last time before his execution in 1649 at the Greyhound Inn

Speedway was staged at the Greyhound Stadium as the home of the Glasgow Tigers in the late 1970s / early 1980s before the new road forced a move to Craighead Park which closed down at the end of the 1986 season.

* Euphrates of 1813 was laid down as Greyhound, but renamed before launching.

* Shelbourne FC, the League of Ireland side, played at the Greyhound Stadium during the period 1975-77 and again from 1983 to 1989 before moving to the refurbished Home ground of Tolka park.

It is a limited access highway through Revere, passing Suffolk Downs and the Wonderland Greyhound Park ( which is across the street from the outer terminus of the MBTA's Blue Line, before running through the isolated Point of Pines neighborhood ) and exiting Revere over the General Edwards Bridge into Lynn.

A Greyhound bus traveling to Hope was stopped just before the slide.

This line-up gigged at the Greyhound venue in Fulham Palace Road, before adding Brother ( Bass ), Richard Heley ( Vocals ) and Paul Noble aka Twink ( not Twink of the Pink Fairies ) on his home-made synthesizer.

This line-up also gigged at the Greyhound, The Chippenham in Maida Vale and at the Cabbage Patch in Twickenham, before making their final performance at Stonehenge Free festival, in June, 1975.

Mick, a male brindle Greyhound, was born in Killeigh, Co. Offaly, before the introduction of Greyhound track racing in Ireland, and before the sport became popular in Britain.

Originally expected to be used for hare coursing, a deal was discussed with dog owner Moses Rebenschied to take Mick to America to compete in the Greyhound racing circuit, however before the deal could go through a tornado struck St. Louis, Missouri, killing 27 of Rebenschied's Greyhounds when the roof was blown off their kennel, and a further four dogs died when a van driven by his son was overturned by the storm.

Greyhound lane will be closed from 29 October 2012 until 29 April 2013-a temporary footbridge will be built before the road bridge is demolished.

Crossing the built-up area south-eastwards towards Hove, it crosses Hove Park near Brighton & Hove Greyhound Stadium, before zig-zagging through the streets of Brighton to Brighton Pier.