Jonathan Aitken is (1) one of the cleverest politicians I have ever seen in a witness box, (2) one of the cleverest MEN I've ever seen in the witness box, (3) one of the most scrupulously prepared men ever in the witness box.
"He is the suspect of the plot in London but he is also the witness of the plot in Moscow and that is more dangerous, " Berezovsky told The Associated Press.
Today the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, was subpoenaed to testify as a witness in front of the U.S. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC).
In the first of two witness statements made in July 2010 and released today as he appeared, he said he found signs of torture on his nephew Hamid.
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"The history of supergrass trials is that the overwhelming majority, if not all of them, have always put in the witness box people of poor credibility, " he said.
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The supergrass, who now lives in south-east England, was the only witness in a trial of 35 IRA and INLA suspects which collapsed in 1984.
Last December, Ombudsman Desierto, 61, bought 10 TV sets at a huge discount from a supplier who had tried to bribe a witness in one of his cases.
Now the BBC has learned of a court case in which Witness Z was convicted of being hired as a hitman and carrying out a murder.
Today, in Houston, we'll hear more from the second witness in the trial of former Enron executives Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay.
At the end of each course, a graduation ceremony is held to which members of the community, family members of the course participants and representatives from the local and national authorities are invited in order for them to witness and share in the success of the graduating learners.
In part two of Tales from Dunwall we witness some of the strange powers present in the rat-infested, mean streets of Dunwall.
Journalism is just one of the many collapsing professions out there, so to expand the point, why are there so many people in an array of industries enjoying wild successes (witness the crop of new Facebillionaires) in cool jobs while others founder?
Death by disaster is in many ways a symptom of economic underdevelopment: witness the very different consequences of the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile.
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Dr Daly showed signs of strain in the witness box as attention moved to the removal of Mr Duddy from the car park and the famous television pictures of him leading the group carrying the slumped body of the youth were played to the hearing.
The jury had met Bradley, whose mother and two children were killed in the blast, when she was called as a defense witness in the first part of the trial.
In coming years, we will witness an explosion in the use of robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology and synthetic biology.
Ms. Lewinsky, the only witness cited in support of this allegation, denies this allegation as well.
And a witness in the trial of one of the Bali bombing suspects said that he believed al-Qaeda was financing JI's bombings.
The "supergrass" was the only witness in a trial of 35 IRA suspects which collapsed in 1984 when the then Lord Chief Justice dismissed his evidence as being "unworthy of belief".
Way back in 1984, when Pakistani women tried to protest against so-called Islamic legislation which reduced their status to half a witness in the law of evidence, they were brutally beaten up.
Clinton was subpoenaed to testify as a defense witness in the trial of his two former partners in the Whitewater real estate venture in Arkansas -- James McDougal and his former wife, Susan McDougal.
He has a history of standing firm on issues he believes in, in foreign affairs at least: witness his chivvying of the rest of the world to take action against the Serbs in Kosovo.
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But such incentives are a normal tool of economic policy, especially in developing countries witness the special economic zones of China, or the incentives available to multinationals that set up regional headquarters in Singapore.
That was part of the testimony of the first witness, Robert Grabowski, in the trial of Ross Mandell and Adam Harrington, all from Sky Capital.
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Contrary to received wisdom, the process of linking pay to performance works reasonably well in America witness the large number of bosses whose remuneration has plummeted during the recession.
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In the reverse, it would be painful to witness a member of the opposite sex in such an uncomfortable and awkward position.
Mrs Sheridan denies making false statements on 31 July 2006, after being sworn in as a witness in the civil jury trial at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.
The business class in tax-burdened Brazil is about to witness yet another round of tax cuts in at least 14 different sectors as GDP forecasts there continue to deteriorate.
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In Asia, especially, many of these officials are also allegedly corrupt or otherwise malfeasant witness a scandal in the Indian Premier League, the boss of which, Lalit Modi, stands accused of overseeing vast tax evasion.
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