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The volume is a piece of passionate special pleading, written with the heat -- and often with the wisdom, it must be said -- of a Liberal damning the shortsightedness of politicians from 1782 to 1832.
With this apparently damning piece of evidence in their hands, prosecutors brought Ignatow to trial for the murder in 1991.

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Although a costly settlement to Microsoft, this eliminated the most damning evidence of Microsoft's anti-trust behaviors, and allowed Microsoft to control and dominate this sector of the marketplace without concerns about any further serious competitor.
Howard then confronts Leslie with the damning evidence and she breaks down and confesses to Hammond's cold-blooded killing.
Ben Amunwa, director of the Remember Ken Saro-Wiwa organization, replied that Shell settled the case " because the evidence compiled by the plaintiffs, was damning enough to force an out of court settlement.
Holmes agrees to look at the situation in spite of the damning evidence.
The evidence brought against defendants, supplied by James McParlan, a Pinkerton, and corroborated by men who were granted immunity for their own crimes, was tortuous and contradictory, but the net effect was damning ...
Despite damning evidence that the Solicitor General's office was less than truthful with the Supreme Court about the Bush administration's torture policies and neglect of international treaties, more in-depth research shows that while some attorneys in the Bush administration like John Yoo and John Ashcroft knew about the torture taking place at Abu Ghraib, the U. S. Office of the Solicitor General, of which Paul Clement was a part, knew very little about the Bush administration's tactics for prisoner interrogation, and knew nothing about the atrocities of Abu Ghraib.
The next day at the hospital, after hearing some damning evidence from the witness, Anne produces these documents — signed affidavits made by the witness and stating at different times that completely different men were " Mishka.
Instead of dispassionately analyzing a case, he usually enters it after seemingly damning evidence has built up against his client, then conducts a no-holds-barred investigation of doubtful ethicality to clear him or her.
It was said to her that these tapes contained " damning evidence " of the princess's relationship with the media.
The evidence proves damning as the recording clearly shows Kirk hitting the button to jettison the pod while still at yellow alert.
One of the damning bits of evidence came from John Dennis, who wrote of Theobald's Ovid: " There is a notorious Ideot.
However, at the trial, Hodges presents a shipping manifest proving that a tape from an undamaged camera which had been looking directly into the crowd — the tape Sokal had burned — has been delivered to Sokal's office, but has failed to show up at the trial, arguing that this tape would have been damning evidence against Childers if it had shown the crowd was unarmed.
Trott rendered a damning summation of the evidence, and the jury delivered a guilty verdict.
" New York Times columnist Safire updated his description of Hillary Clinton to " habitual prevaricator ", saying " the evidence that she has been lying all along is damning " and comparing her dark side to that of Richard Nixon, in whose White House he had once worked.
The evidence against young Mr. McFarlane is quite damning.
During the same season the Orange Tree presented a lunchtime production of her one-act play Trifles in its Room Above the Pub, a murder mystery in which a group of housewives conceal damning evidence from the lawmen as an act of sisterly complicity with the victim ’ s wife.
Most famously, one of his detectives, James McParland, infiltrated what he testified was the Mollies ' innermost circle and provided, as a surprise witness, what proved to be damning evidence in several murder trials.
The most damning evidence against Ruiz surfaced when two Harvard students, John Faulkner and Sarah Mahoney, recalled seeing Ruiz burst out of a crowd of spectators on Commonwealth Avenue, half a mile from the finish.
On the 5th and final day, Cicero delivered the Pro Milone in the hope of reversing the damning evidence accrued over the previous days.
There were two very damning pieces of evidence: the testimony of Edward Bright, the ship's carpenter, which alone of the accusations Doughty openly denied, and Doughty's own admission that he had disclosed the true purpose of their voyage to Lord William Burghley, a staunch advocate of avoiding trouble with the Spanish.
Keith, however, would later acquire damning evidence against these men when he secretly recorded a conversation between himself and Carl Webb, a man working for them.
When confronted with the damning evidence, the suspect confessed to the crime.
The most damning evidence was to come from two brothers, Jim and Bill Feeheley, Whiteboys known to have been involved in the crime.

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She said she was kept naked in a suicide watch cell and given cold showers and that Reno visited her late at night in pursuit of her confession and damning testimony.
Dante settled his score with Boniface in Part One of the Divine Comedy, the Inferno, by damning the pope even before his death in 1303 ( the poet set the time of the poem as being in the year 1300 ) in the pit of those whose sin was simony.
However, Widukind does not even mention such an event in his contemporary Res gestae saxonicae sive annalium libri tres or " Deeds of the Saxons ", which, considering Widukind was at least partly writing to promote Otto I and his family, is damning to Adam of Bremen's claims.
The damning document was published in the conservative British Daily Mail newspaper four days before the election.
One of these documents, released on May 16, was prepared with Mao's personal supervision and was particularly damning:
" Writing in The New York Times, Anthony Boucher — described by a Fleming biographer, John Pearson as " throughout an avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man "— was again damning of Fleming's work, saying " it's harder than ever to see why an ardent coterie so admires Ian Fleming's tales ".
Following several successful revivals ( including Stephen Daldry's 1992 production for the National Theatre ), the play was “ rediscovered ” and hailed as a damning social critique of capitalism and middle-class hypocrisy in the manner of the social realist dramas of Shaw and Ibsen.
Beg vremeni ( The flight of time ), collected works 1909 – 1965, published in 1965, was the most complete volume of her works in her lifetime, though the long damning poem Requiem, condemning the Stalinist purges, was conspicuously absent.
Writing in The New York Times, Anthony Boucher – described by a Fleming biographer, John Pearson, as " throughout an avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man " – was damning in his review, saying that From Russia, with Love was Fleming's " longest and poorest book ".
Writing in The Guardian, John Rowe Townsend was damning of the book, saying of the car " I don't care for her much, or the values she stands for " and, of the writing, that " we have the adult writer at play rather than the children's writer at work.
The council's report was so damning of the Inquisition that the Inquisitor General convinced the decrepit monarch to " consign the ' terrible indictment ' to the flames ".
Sherman, who had been close to Thomas throughout the war, also repeated the accusation after the war that Thomas was " slow ", and this damning with faint praise tended to affect perceptions of the Rock of Chickamauga well into the 20th century.
During these investigations, numerous witnesses came forward with damning testimony, almost all of which was corroborated by other witnesses.
Their show, Running Wild, was not well received and led to a damning newspaper review: " Definition of the week: TV set – the box in which they buried Morecambe and Wise.
This in itself was damning because it provided a potential motive for Anne's behaviour.
The report was published in 1915, and was damning of German behaviour against civilians ; Lord Bryce's accounts were confirmed by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, director of the American Commission for Relief in Belgium, who told the New York Times that the German military enslaved hundreds of thousands of Belgian workers, and abused and maimed many of them in the process.
Brazza was sent to investigate and produced a damning report, in spite of many obstructions placed in his path.
Most damning of all, a full set of minutes of National Front Directorate meetings from late 1979 to the 1986 " Third Way " versus " Flag Group " split, deposited by former NF leader Patrick Harrington in the library of the University of Southampton, revealed that during the party's post-1979 wilderness years it was in the habit of " tipping off the reds " in the hope of giving its activities greater credibility with the public, through being attended by hordes of angry protestors.
Albini explained that the performance was " not about Big Black wanting to get back together or even an audience wanting to see Big Black, it's that ... to not honor Touch and Go would be an insult by way of damning with faint praise ", describing the label as " just a benchmark for how a record label should behave, but how people should behave.
Writing in The New York Times, Anthony Boucher — described by a Fleming biographer, John Pearson as " throughout an avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man "— was again damning, although even he admitted that " you can't argue with success ".
He finds damning statistics to back up his claim of the total failure of state socialism to promote the general welfare: " In 1969, Austrians, Finns and Poles could expect to die at the same average age ( 70. 1 years ) but in 1989, Poles had a life expectancy about four years shorter than Austrians and Finns ," "... The great famine of 1959-61, probably the greatest famine of the twentieth century: According to official Chinese statistics, the country's population in 1959 was 672. 07 millions.

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