But we had credible testimony that up to 22 weeks abortions could be performed at a clinic just as safely and with a lot less expense.

In fact, there was credible testimony by multiple witnesses that was directly contrary to the House managers' conjecture, leaving ample room for doubt.

"Let's assume credible testimony, maybe even photos, finally reach Migration Institute inspectors next time they visit Jijo.

Instead, he concluded that former and current directors and company executives gave "credible testimony that the company would be better off without Ovitz."

A high price to be sure, but it bought credible testimony from Mr. Gravano that helped the jury convict a vicious gangster after only two days of deliberations.

There are, however, numerous credible testimony accounts which allege that a large number of rapes were committed by US forces during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.

While virtually every victim's statement to the commission has been heartbreaking, there is special sorrow in credible testimony that a hero of the anti-apartheid struggle used her power against her own people.

But later, after a thorough investigation, the Department of Justice had issued a statement declaring that the charges involving Yarborough were "without any foundation in fact and unsupported by credible testimony."

One obstacle to prosecuting such cases is that the victim may not be able to provide sufficient or credible testimony, said John J. Regan, professor of health care law at Hofstra Law School.

Upon men intent only upon truth, the arm of an orator has little power; a credible testimony, or a cogent argument will overcome all the art of modulation, and all the violence of contortion."

To the contrary, witnesses and evidence supported the position that the caretaker visited the decedent in the hospital every day and the caretaker gave credible testimony that she was continuing to care for the dog.

The couple entrusted the ceremony to a well-known local priest of Apollo, with the idea that it would be good to have an independent official, trusted by the king, who could if necessary give credible testimony that they were really married.

You see, even by combining plagues with war, Ro-kenn could never guarantee annihilation of all six races, or eliminate the off chance that credible testimony might be passed down the generations-perhaps stored in some cave-to finally reach Institute prosecutors.

Referred to a North Meeting "While a defendant's credible testimony standing alone should suffice to raise a defense," it added, "Durrani's statements were so inconsistent they failed to create even a colorable inference that he came within one of the exceptions."

Yes, we have credible testimony from captives that Saddam harbors in Baghdad terrorists trained by and affiliated with Al Qaeda, but where's the smoking gun that shows the ultimate nexus - that he personally ordered the attacks of Sept. 11?

There is credible testimony from several families in his zone that men directly under his command tortured and killed peasants, and that he participated in terrorizing and ransacking the business of a storeowner who demanded payment from his soldiers.

"Anyone who sat in the courtroom during my six-month trial would know that today's comments about me are totally inappropriate, given that there was not one shred of evidence or credible testimony linking me to the fraud," Mr. Scrushy said in a statement.

She wrote that Brian Murphy, an executive vice president of the city's Economic Development Corporation, dissembled and tried to "counteract his subordinates' credible testimony and his own documents," and that the city must put the lease back up for bids.

As mayor I'll issue an executive order. . . . If there is credible testimony describing a perpetrator and it's a 5-foot-6 black man with a goatee, if the police in and around that area see someone running who fits that description, yes, they can stop them.

"But I think when you clothe yourself with a certain piety and say, 'No, no, that will never invade anything,' and it turns out under testimony that that may indeed be the case - and it seems to be up to now credible testimony - that's a problem."

Friedman has characterized the kinds of evidence, scientific and otherwise, that he considers to be relevant, and this evidence includes credible testimony, analyses of documents, video and physical trace evidence, and particularly multiple sources of mutually corroborating evidence of one or more kinds.

Confronted on the one side with credible testimony by reliable witnesses and even military personnel with top secret security clearances on the one side and clamor in the public media on the other side, some U.S. military organizations undertook studies to determine the nature of and possible threat posed by the UFOs.