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 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 Congress, Greyhound Bus Lines stated that the Act had the potential to " deprive millions of people of affordable intercity public transportation and thousands of rural communities of their only link to the outside world ".

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 about the gunfight itself, he said he saw " the marshal go up and speak to this other party.

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 to his importance, a character named " Henry James " appears in at least a half-dozen novels, as noted above, the best-known of which is The Master by Colm Toibin.

In 1511, Titian painted three scenes of Miracles from the life of Saint Anthony: The Miracle of the Jealous Husband, which depicts the murder of a young woman by her husband ; A Child Testifying to Its Mother's Innocence ; and The Saint Healing the Young Man with a Broken Limb.

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

Testifying, Zeta-Jones said the threats left her so shaken she feared a nervous breakdown.

Testifying is not the same thing as swearing.

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 in support of H. R.

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

The New York Times published Miller's first-person account, " My Four Hours Testifying in the Federal Grand Jury Room ", on October 16, 2005.

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 to his growing political influence, the South Carolina legislature asked Butler to represent the state at the Constitutional Convention that met in Philadelphia in 1787.

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 against Moltke were his former wife of nine years, Lili von Elbe, a soldier named Bollhardt, and Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld.

A former senior product manager at Master Lock, a trigger lock manufacturer, was quoted as saying “ If you put a trigger lock on any loaded gun, you are making the gun more dangerous .” Critics also point out that a trigger lock will increase the time it takes a gun owner to respond to a self-defense emergency.

However, by that time there was little public support for changing the constitution, with a survey showing 34. 5 % of Japanese not wanting any changes, 44. 5 % wanting no changes to Article 9, and 54. 6 % supporting the current interpretation on self-defense.

" The United States government thought that finding the Yeti was likely enough to create three rules for American expeditions searching for it: obtain a Nepalese permit, do not harm the Yeti except in self-defense, and let the Nepalese government approve any news reporting on the animal's discovery.

Both Rhee and Kim Il Sung wanted to unite the Korean peninsula under their respective governments, but the United States refused to give South Korea any heavy weapons to ensure that its military could only be used for self-defense and preserving internal order.

Hence, in default of self-defense in the first instance, any damage to property must be made good either in kind or by value.

However, self-defense resulting in usage of deadly force by a civilian or civilians against an individual or individuals is often subject to examination by a court if it is unclear whether it was necessary at the point of the offense, and whether any further action on the part of the law needs to be taken.

Dead Serious is an organization in Fort Worth, Texas which offers $ 5, 000 to any member that kills a criminal in self-defense.

If foreigners are evil and corrupted by demonic influence, then any means of self-defense is easily portrayed as legitimate.

" Efforts from those such as Smiley convinced Dr. King that any sort of weapons or “ self-defense ” could not be associated with someone holding King's position.

Outside of the western world, justifiable self-defense tends to be interpreted more loosely, including the right to defend against any criminal act, without limitations to reasonable or proportionate use of force based on the magnitude of the crime.

In 1899, after a massive crowd of white Georgians tortured, mutilated and burned a black man, Sam Hose — who purportedly had killed a white man in self-defense, but had not committed the rape of the white woman whites accused him of — and divided and sold his physical remains as souvenirs, Felton said that any " true-hearted husband or father " would have killed " the beast ," and that Hose was due less sympathy than a rabid dog.

A majority of state constitutions allow arms for any citizen in self-defense of himself or the state.

In Tennessee, the use of Bowie knives to settle disputes on the spot so alarmed state legislators that in 1838 they not only made the concealed carrying of a Bowie knife a criminal felony, but also prohibited the use of a Bowie knife in any altercation, regardless of self-defense or other mitigating excuse:

The Chee are completely incapable of violence or assisting with any activity that would lead to someone's harm, even in their own self-defense.

The three most notable examples are the Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war as an instrument of national policy, the London Charter ( known also as the Nuremberg Charter ) defining " crimes against peace " as one of three major categories of international crime to be prosecuted after World War II, and the United Nations Charter, which binds nations to seek resolution of disputes by peaceful means and requires authorization by the United Nations before a nation may initiate any use of force against another, beyond the inherent right of self-defense against an armed attack.

* No employee was allowed to carry any weapons for offense or self-defense.

Dr. Rosen is brought before a magistrate which clears her of any criminal charge due to acting in self-defense, albeit with the additional order to surrender the healing machine to station personnel.

Secondarily it is used for self-defense, though in cases with non-prey items such as humans they may give a dry bite ( not inject any venom ).

Practitioners of nonresistance may refuse to retaliate against an opponent or offer any form of self-defense.

Assigned as adviser to an Infantry unit, Ranger unit, Infantry-type unit of the civil guard of regimental or smaller size, and / or Infantry-type unit of the self-defense corps unit of regimental or smaller size of the Vietnamese government during any period such unit was engaged in actual ground combat.

Resolution 836 authorized UNPROFOR " acting in self-defense, to take the necessary measures, including the use of force, in reply to bombardments against the safe areas by any of the parties or to armed incursion into them or in the event of any deliberate obstruction in or around those areas the freedom of movement of UNPROFOR or of protected humanitarian convoys ".

These entities were created by Gaia as self-defense mechanisms to deal with any threats capable of destroying or severely damaging the Planet.

For example, it did not hold the United States to the conditions of any existing treaties, it still allowed European nations the right to self-defense, and it stated that if one nation broke the Pact, it would be up to the other signatories to enforce it.