We could not bring in a recorder, but the courtroom is mostly quiet except for the lawyers, witnesses and judge talking.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

They don't come door to door anymore unless they're working for the Jehovah's Witnesses.

现在他们不怎么上门推销了,除了为耶和华见证会工作

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There is generally a concluding invocation of witnesses, usually the gods are invoked as witnesses to a binding oath, some kind of covenantal oath that brings the treaty into effect, and it's witnessed by gods.

一般也包括一段援引见证人的文字，一般是上帝见证一个有约束力的誓言的诞生，这个誓言可以使条约生效，上帝是见证人。

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Human rights groups and witnesses say at least one hundred fifty-seven people were killed, a number disputed by the military government.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

And,they can discover the time of death to see if it matches information given by suspects and witnesses.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

Witnesses told how Confederate supporters reportedly planned to cause trouble in the North.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

Farrell was abducted while interviewing witnesses at the site of last week's NATO air strike on two hijacked fuel trucks.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

Witnesses say demonstrators entered the government building after President Bakiyev fled, and smashed computers,threw papers and waved the country's flag.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Some witnesses have alleged that National Patriotic Front fighters in Liberia ate the organs of those they had killed.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

Meanwhile,witnesses appearing before the House Armed Services committee expressed different views about the impact additional troops would have in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

However,the judge told the prosecution to continue lining up witnesses to testify against Kasab, saying his trial will continue.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

The Chilcot inquiry will examine reams of documents, call witnesses for public and private testimony, including military,government and intelligence officials.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Weather is not believed to be a factor. Witnesses say they did not see any fire before the plane broke apart.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

The prime minister said the inquiry would be fully independent with access to all relevant British documents and witnesses.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

Although the three witnesses have varying accounts of the events police in South Africa say the stones given to Campbell are diamonds.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Many witnesses say Toumba gave the order for the presidential guard to open fire on people protesting Captain Camara's expected presidential candidacy.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

Authorities initially blamed the women, but witnesses and the family said the LUKoil car was to blame.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

Witnesses say the explosion hit a crowded market late in the day,Wednesday, killing mostly women and children.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Witnesses said a hospital in the capital collapsed, a luxury hotel in Petionville had sustained major damage and many other buildings were destroyed.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

Witnesses said they heard an explosion. Sergei Shoigu,Russia's emergency situations minister, described the situation during a live broadcast from the national crisis response center in Moscow.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

The jury viewed more than 3,000 exhibits and heard from more than 300 witnesses.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

Witnesses there say al-Shabab fought off the offensive, but Bula Burte remains tense.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

Witnesses say the Taliban allowed villagers to drain the tankers after the vehicles became stuck in the mud during an attempt to drive them across a river.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

During the trial, the judge called Selebi and Agliotti liars and unreliable witnesses.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

Nonetheless,the prosecution accuses him of complicity in the killings of nearly One of the court witnesses, camp survivor Thomas Blatt, spoke to reporters as he arrived at the courthouse.

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

According to wire service reports, witnesses say a hospital in the capital collapsed and that many buildings Additional information from the island has been slow in coming, were damaged.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

While there are no early official estimates of voter participation, witnesses say most of the nearly 3,000 polling stations were more crowded than during the last presidential election in 2005.

VOA: standard.2009.08.30

Other witnesses say emergency services may have taken up to 30 minutes to reach the scene as they battled through the early morning traffic that chokes the city every day.

VOA: standard.2009.07.17

Witnesses say at one point early Friday morning, The chief mediator at the talks, former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano ordered Mr.Rajoelina to sit down and be quiet when he threatened to walk out.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

Authorities say they quickly killed two of the gunmen, but two others continued to fire machine guns in the extended battle in Pul-i-Alam, Witnesses say U.S.military helicopters were part of the response force, and one aircraft fired a rocket into a multi-story building which the insurgents had seized, used to launch their attack and had rigged with explosives.

VOA: standard.2009.08.10