witness to something

Examples of witnessed

witnessed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Thus, the eighteenth century witnessed neither an economic nor a monetary crisis.
I align with the latter view - history has witnessed the flourishing of many normative systems we now find dubious or even paradigmatically unacceptable.
Cases and controls were similar on all demographic variables, school performance, number of attacks witnessed and psychopathology before the onset of the epidemic.
Those that had witnessed a corrupt act also expressed more willingness to take part in political activism.
First, the re-opening of the site promises all the sensational imagery witnessed in the 1960s with improved archaeological technologies of the 1990s.
The 1957-59 period witnessed pressures from politicians, students, and labour to curtail military power and excesses.
This period also witnessed an increase in railroad mileage as well as growth in such industries as timbering, sawmills, and cotton textile mills.
As witnessed by the stromatolite record, benthic microbial mats grew in shallow water lagoonal environments.
This did not stop attempts to suppress it, and the opening two decades of the nineteenth century witnessed a succession of libel actions.
By the mid nineteenth century it had assumed a character unlike anything witnessed before, and machinery was playing an unprecedented part.
Furthermore, the metropolis was an important purveyor of cinematographic spectacle, as witnessed by the popularity of an early genre : the ' ' urban panoramas.
The second half of the eighteenth century witnessed a number of important inventions; however, can their appearance explain the industrial revolution?
The 1970s and 1980s witnessed revolts and ethnic conflicts drawing on the strength of rural loyalties and discontent.
Distinguishable transfer time delay of the two-photon groups through the foam was observed in experiments, which witnessed the multi-group transfer behavior.
In years past, these pages witnessed a heroic struggle between symbolists and connectionists.
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