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    hearsay


    1. JOYCE: Objection, your Honor, the counsel is accumulating gossip and hearsay


    2. People judge mental illness through hearsay or the severity of the affects, however mental illness is only as dangerous as the individual behind the wheel


    3. "I guess this Nightday I should come down and see Nidon myself," she said, "I can only offer hearsay and what I know from history


    4. Old wives tales, superstitions, and hearsay


    5. He hadn’t given Nathan any other details as he said that he was still making enquiries in order to collect conclusive evidence rather than the hearsay he had so far


    6. What did the king mean by the words ‘Korrich ranhynn tohyrm Madra ayz’? They were going to Illeander, a place where no one had been before and there were no maps or other layout guides, not even hearsay


    7. He had no speculation, no hearsay


    8. loose but hearsay, whispers and rumours had already established


    9. mediocre, second-hand, by hearsay


    10. However, don't hold me to that statement because it is just hearsay

    11. holy? By hearsay? Can you trust others in these matters, or even


    12. Mounties involved in the in-custody death, said Bent's e-mail was hearsay


    13. rumors and hearsay as this comes across as immature and may


    14. “If it please the court, I would ask that the testimony concerning the pumping pressure on board the ship be striken from the record as hearsay in so far as he obtained the information from what someone else told him


    15. Now all this is hearsay on steroids of course, and I sought to read around on the web to see if there was any debunking of this account from reputable sources


    16. on Lilliput and had to rely upon hearsay about


    17. to rely upon hearsay about conditions on Blefuscu,


    18. They made their guilty verdict on the basis of rumors and hearsay


    19. Suspicion, hearsay, rumour – none of those things are sufficient to warrant serious investigation


    20. Any motive he might have for the murder can only be deduced from circumstantial hearsay or creative imagination

    21. Irish people could be questioned on the hearsay of an English neighbour suggesting their activities were suspicious


    22. Matthew and Ellen were aware of an Irish taxi driver they knew who was questioned on the hearsay of someone because of the naturally unsociable hours he kept with his job


    23. Speak only that which you have heard from me; speak not hearsay


    24. ‘What’s heaven but hearsay? Won’t the benedictions therein seem make-believe? The Hindu swarga, the Christian salvation and the Islamic hereafter, are they really real? Had anyone called back to earth from those summits of faith? And without a body how does the soul enjoy the earthly pleasures of the religious heavens? How naive is man in envisioning heaven! If the swarga is not make-believe, won’t Sneha join the company of the pativratas, in wait for their husbands they had left behind? But, having sinned so much here, would I gain admission there? Well, if hell were to be my destiny, why not make the best of the rest of my life here itself? It looks sensible


    25. But would their standard of evolution thus erected on the land of religion stand up to logic? After all, the three millennia or more of anthropological data that modern man is in possession fails to indicate an iota of variation in the existing species not to speak of the evolution of the new! That being the case, could it be then the world came into being on its own, as it were! Well if it were so, the question that arises is, wouldn’t have the first men made their progeny privy to that story? But that didn’t happen either, as we don’t even have hearsay to go by about our origins


    26. All of this is hearsay at this time as no-one has ever laid eyes on the Scroll except for these photographs of it found in a jewelry shop in Berlin by the Americans at the end of the war


    27. Evidently familiar with the plan of the caverns by hearsay or by maps handed down in the priestcraft, he had entered the cave after the others, carrying the goddess, followed a circuitous route through the tunnels and chambers, and ensconced himself and his burden on the balcony while Gorulga and the other acolytes were engaged in their endless rituals


    28. "It was hearsay


    29. "Anyway, that's hearsay


    30. Everything was hearsay

    31. The information was all hearsay and more than likely would not hold up in a court of law without a credible witness


    32. The most obvious cross would consist of the fact that not only was her testimony hearsay, but that she wasn’t even living with Terry at the time of his drug use


    33. Without the necessary privileges, reliable information was only available as hearsay, as all sources of information had become an integral part of the governing establishment, restricted on a need-to-know basis


    34. confused with hearsay evidence, which is not normally


    35. of the legend was from hearsay information passed on to disciples or


    36. All their information was hearsay as they had no practical experience with anything


    37. “That miracle is much more than hearsay, Your Excellency


    38. And I also admit that my restatement and summaries of others works to disclose the bad side is only hearsay evidence


    39. But my correlation, of what they say, shows the bigger picture more clearly; even if it is more hearsay when I say it


    40. hard , and not in the hearsay category, and make my rock hard conclusions on the rock hard evidence with humongous hearsay support

    41. There were also many mentions made of the Time Patrol but the information pertaining to it was mostly inaccurate and based on hearsay


    42. hearsay, of course, but I had no intention of ever finding out the


    43. therefore hearsay and if you repeat it, I will deny being the source


    44. Was it not possible, the hallucinations, if not inventions, of such folks might have made their way into the hadith? Besides, hearsay is the bane of best of the times, and what more proof is needed about the averment than its grip, even on the informed mind, in the transparent age of ours


    45. Thus are caught the Musalmans between the Islamic deep sea of hadithian hearsay and the devil of the self-denied logic


    46. Irrespective of this, however, just hearsay or someone’s influence should


    47. “This is all hearsay,” John said


    48. through the media or hearsay


    49. “That would be hearsay


    50. This is not a hearsay, but my practical Experience




































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    Synonyms for "hearsay"

    hearsay rumor rumour gossip report scuttle-butt talk buzz rumble

    "hearsay" definitions

    gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth


    heard through another rather than directly