Aelian's anecdotes on animals rarely depend on direct observation: they are almost entirely taken from written sources, often Pliny the Elder, but also other authors and works now lost, to whom he is thus a valuable witness.

But I, though I saw and heard these things, refused to write for a long time through doubt and bad opinion and the diversity of human words, not with stubbornness but in the exercise of humility, until, laid low by the scourge of God, I fell upon a bed of sickness ; then, compelled at last by many illnesses, and by the witness of a certain noble maiden of good conduct nun Richardis von Stade and of that man whom I had secretly sought and found, as mentioned above, I set my hand to the writing.

( 3 ) After a lengthy debate whether it was less appropriate to refuse a triumph to man, in his presence, in whose name when absent a thanksgiving ( supplicatio ) had been decreed and honour paid to the Immortal Gods by reason of the things successfully accomplished under his leadership, ( 4 ) or for a man to triumph as though a war had been concluded whom they had ordered to hand over his army to a successor ( something that would not be decreed if no war remained in the province ) when his army, the witness of a deserved as of an undeserved triumph, was far away, the middle course seemed best: that he should enter the City in ovation ( ovans ).

Years afterwards, he pretended that he had only signed the devise as a witness, but in his apology to Queen Mary I, he did not venture to allege so flimsy an excuse ; he preferred to lay stress on the extent to which he succeeded in shifting the responsibility on to the shoulders of his brother-in-law, Sir John Cheke, and other friends, and on his intrigues to frustrate the Queen to whom he had sworn allegiance.

This result flowed from Orchard's having turned state's evidence and having become the prosecution's star witness against Big Bill Haywood and two other leaders of the Western Federation of Miners whom the prosecution alleged had masterminded Steunenberg's assassination.

James was one of only three apostles whom Jesus selected to bear witness to his Transfiguration.

Within the English Church men with whom he had both personal and religious sympathy rose -- Whately, of whom he said, " We know no living writer who has proved so little and disproved so much "; and Thomas Arnold, " a man who could be a hero without romance "; F. D. Maurice, whose character, marked by " religious realism ," sought in the past " the witness to eternal truths, the manifestation by time-samples of infinite realities and unchanging relations "; and Charles Kingsley, " a great teacher ," though one " certain to go astray the moment he becomes didactic.

Another masked witness whom Hays described as " not very reliable " claimed that van der Lubbe was a drug-addicted homosexual who was the lover of Ernst Röhm and a Nazi dupe.

* prior testimony: if the testimony was given under oath and the party against whom the testimony is being proffered was present and had the opportunity to cross examine the witness at that time.

However, he could prove that he was on his way back to Ireland at the time ; he was able to call Bryan Cooper, whom he met on the boat, as a witness.

The date of his death is given by Nepos as 468 ; at any rate, he lived to witness the ostracism of Themistocles, towards whom he always displayed generosity, but he died before the rise of Pericles.

* Uriah, a priest whom God offers to call as a witness in the Book of Isaiah

And, to prevent a failure of justice, from the want of evidence on the trial of any such inquisition, indictment or appeal, be it further enacted, That the governor ... is hereby authorised and required, to bind in recognizances to his Majesty all such witnesses as the prosecutor or person against whom such inquisition or indictment shall be found, or appeal sued or preferred, shall desire to attend the trial of the said inquisition, ... for their personal appearance, at the time and place of such trial, to give evidence: and the said governor ... shall thereupon appoint a reasonable sum to be allowed for the expenses of every such witness ...

The Governor's daughter, Mary Eaton, married Valentine Hill of Boston in 1647, to which his brother, Nathaniel Eaton, the first schoolmaster of Harvard, was present as a witness ; Samuel Eaton married Mabel ( Harlakenden ) Haynes in 1654, but both of whom died in the small pox epidemic of 1655 ; Hannah Eaton married the Lt.

He has also become a close friend of international celebrities Bono and Angelina Jolie, both of whom have traveled to Africa with Sachs to witness the progress of the Millennium Villages.

At a drug-drenched party in a house on the Thames near central London, he finds both Veruschka – who had told him that she was going to Paris, and when confronted, she says she is in Paris – and his agent ( Peter Bowles ), whom he wants to bring to the park as a witness.

A few months later, Pilz claimed that a person whom he called " Zeuge D " ( German: " witness D ") has information that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had participated in the murder of 3 Kurds in Vienna in 1989.

In " A Lilith Thanksgiving " ( 1996 ), Lilith and Frasier successfully have Frederick admitted into a private school after they annoy the administrator ( Paxton Whitehead ) by visiting him several times on Thanksgiving to get their son admitted, especially when Frasier and Lilith bring in a turkey to two families whom they witness clashing each other.

This tradition is confirmed by the witness of several ancient authors, some of whom were contemporaries.

He was acquitted on all charges in a second case against him when a witness, whom King maintained he had never met, said that he had consented to sex and had been older at the time than he had initially told police.

Whilst on Silbad's planet, they witness the metamorphosis of a water-lily like organism into dozens of empathic, sentient, primary colored homunculi, two of whom, named Yula and Jad, stow away on Jaffar's spacecraft seeking adventure.

In Paris, he met the French fascist leader Jacques Doriot, with whom he travelled to Austria, Italy, and Germany to witness the effects of fascism in those countries.

Sloterdijk's philosophy strikes a balance between the firm academicism of a scholarly professor and a certain sense of anti-academicism ( witness his ongoing interest in the ideas of Osho, of whom he became a disciple in the late seventies ).

From Kentish charters it is known that Æthelbald was in control of London, and from Æthelbald's time on, the transition to Mercian control appears to be complete ; an early charter of Offa's, granting land near Harrow, does not even include the king of Essex on the witness list.

In the last week of April 1555, Elizabeth was released from house arrest, and called to court as a witness to the birth, which was expected imminently.

The basic process is as follows: Both sides of a controversy are obliged to declare in advance of trial what witnesses they plan to call, and what each witness is expected to testify to.

There are other interpretations which say that Saul and the witch having been frightened by his appearance, and Samuel as having been composed, classical rabbinical sources argue that Samuel was terrified by the ordeal, having expected to be appearing to face God's judgement, and had therefore brought Moses with him ( to the land of the living ) as a witness to his adherence to the mitzvot.

By repeated random selection of a possible witness, the large probability that a random string is a witness gives an expected polynomial time algorithm for accepting or rejecting an input.

Conversely, if the Turing Machine is expected polynomial-time ( for any given x ), then a considerable fraction of the runs must be polynomial-time bounded, and the coin sequence used in such a run will be a witness.

Often this is combined with an additional plot device whereby the assassin leaves the scene so there is no one to witness the victim's expected demise, thereby giving the captive the opportunity to openly free himself.

However, even on a nude beach it may not be expected to witness explicit sexual activity.

According to the Miami Herald Taher and Alwan expected their testimony would be rewarded by being placed in the witness protection program, like the third man whose name was withheld from the Press.

China is expected to witness a zero population growth rate by 2030.

... the news of the expected coming of the witch-doctor spread far and wide, and about eight o ’ clock there could not have been less than 200 people collected near the cottage of Mrs. Mole to witness the supernatural powers of the Hadleigh wizard.

As he passes through all the places that bear silent witness to the fall of Srebrenica, he remembers the traumatic hours he spent in the bunker where he was expected to make decisions concerning life and death.

Harlan vigorously dissented, writing, " I had not expected to witness the day when the Supreme Court of the United States would render a decision which casts grave doubt on the constitutionality of the composition of the House of Representatives.

* No room to swing a cat: The entire ship's company was expected to witness floggings, assembled on deck.

Deritend is also expected to witness a vast amount of redevelopment.

Second, the evidence can be authenticated by the opinion of an expert witness examining the evidence to determine if it has all of the properties that it would be expected to have if it were authentic.

The expected documents from the " country in the Mid East " – thought to be Syria – had not materialized by week 33, and the defence confirmed that the accused would not take the witness stand.

Priests are able to preach, perform baptisms, confirm ( with special dispensation from their ordinary ), witness marriages, hear confessions and give absolutions, anoint the sick, and celebrate the Eucharist or the Mass.

To confirm means to “ make more sure ” and the ordinance of confirmation also stands as a witness of the individual becoming a member of the LDS church and community and not just an acceptance of Jesus.

Pentangeli, ensconced in FBI witness protection and ready to avenge the attempt on his life, is prepared to confirm accusations against Michael until his Sicilian brother attends the hearing at the Don's side ; Pentangeli denies his sworn statements and the hearing dissolves in an uproar.