| 词汇 | example_english_confession |
| 释义 | Examples of confessionThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. After that, both accusations and confessions proliferated at a rapid rate. Table 3 lists the fifty individuals whose confessions have been recorded. Revivalists' public confessions of sin looked like cleansing ceremonies. Such stories (or reports, confessions, films, series of photos/sketches, etc.) could be fully documentary or fictions closely following true events. First, in order for the priests to have assigned penances, the soldiers must have made individual confessions. There was neither a shortage of ' supergrasses ', nor of confessions of various kinds. She casts her lyrical confessions against the crudeness of her world, and against the parody embodied by the other characters. 80 which several communal confessions attribute communal ritual practices of unstated significance. Critics from both confessions condemned the attempt to divine a certain future and attempted to draw a clear distinction between natural, diabolical and divine signs. At the time the court began building its docket only five confessions had been offered. The only available textual evidence is confessions taken during the hearing. The cacophony of rumours, denunciations, apocryphal tales, sightings, clues and confessions that swept the streets - in many cases before police had even launched their investigation - only intensified the sentiment. The postwar demobilised writer brought a sense of entitlement to his confessions that had eluded his prewar peer group and was missing in letters from non-veteran youngsters. The clergyman's duties arise not from his putative existence as a rational being, but from the office he holds as a teacher in one of several public confessions. The decisive point, however, is that this information is not markedly different in content from the depositions and confessions subsequently given by captured thugs-be it in 1810 or 1829. In some cases, such confessions may prove to be without foundation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I understand now how confessions are forced on people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Changes have also been made on the signing of confessions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As well as discussion we have had confessions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think we are all now familiar with the methods used to extort these so-called confessions, and know what value to put upon them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Another matter that causes me concern is the proposed change in regard to confessions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 From the newspaper reports it does not appear that the false confessions were extorted by the police, who moreover did not act upon them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Information is not available centrally on immediate confessions of guilt. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Confessions are a very dangerous form of evidence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Statements or confessions, if they are to be admitted, must be shown to have been made voluntarily, and not induced by promises or by threats. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We welcome these confessions and the recognition of the importance of co-operative working. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hesitate to don the role of cleric, but in that case we look forward to many more confessions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As it happens, the code of practice does not refer to confessions as such at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our present law relating to confessions is not at all that bad. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 First, it is completely silent—there is no doubt that it has a right to be—about confessions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Mandatory exclusion of such confessions will be enjoined unless there is corroboration. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a clear risk of deterring confessions and the giving of incriminating information. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I take it that the way those confessions were obtained will need to be established. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We shall want in due course to know the truth about that, and in particular how they came to sign the so-called confessions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Advances in forensic psychiatry and linguistics have been applied in several referrals, particularly in relation to the reliability of confessions and other evidence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 First, the flood of confessions which began a few weeks ago has continued. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I shall not be altogether convinced even if this identification is corroborated by a quota of confessions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are based on confessions; indeed, in some cases, televised confessions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The traditional methods seem, to be polite, to consist of coercing confessions out of detainees. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We also heard a number of interesting confessions during our long debate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Examples are the publicity given to the apparent confessions made by the accused before the trial, and the impression that it was stage-managed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, in the past few weeks there have been some confessions which obviously affect the considerations of possible prosecutions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Others, unfortunately, have had their confessions written for them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Convictions should be based more on evidence, because false confessions are not just the preserve of the vulnerable and inarticulate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In each case, those confessions were not the truth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no doubt that the ending of the right to silence will in many cases lead to confessions that may not be accurate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Defendants are frequently convicted on uncorroborated evidence and confessions extracted under duress. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They were all cases of alleged confessions obtained in police stations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps we might have some self-examinations and possibly some confessions later. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was told that fingers were being systematically broken with a view to obtaining confessions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have continuously asked how many people who have been convicted of scheduled offences have been convicted on the basis of their uncorroborated confessions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The convictions were based on the confessions of the three defendants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My noble friend may rest assured that efforts are constantly and stringently being made to eradicate the ingrained tendency to get at convictions through confessions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If one believes that the men are innocent and that the confessions were extracted in the way suggested, an extraordinary number of police perjured themselves. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The court hearing lasted more than a month and it spent five days considering the crucial point about the validity of the confessions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Literally days were spent considering the strength of the forensic evidence, and further days were spent considering whether the confessions could be relied on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The main issue was the accuracy and fairness of alleged confessions obtained by military police. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The second matter concerns the question of evidence of confessions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Very occasionally there are cases in which it appears that false confessions have been faked or extorted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How could a caution conceivably amount to sufficient protection against adverse inferences from silence or against false or unreliable confessions? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 His anxieties are that uncorroborated confessions do, on occasion, form the basis of valid convictions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If this information could be given to relatives, fewer of these confessions, which should be inadmissible, would take place. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A number of so-called confessions—one realises how they were got—were produced at this trial. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Experience shows that confessions of this nature cannot be assumed, without inquiry, to be true. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The confessions of the remaining seven service men were not ruled inadmissible by the judge. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should look carefully again at some of the rules about the admissibility of evidence and confessions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not talking here of innocent men signing confessions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There were only confessions, which were not given in court. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Under all those pressures and worries, perhaps the confessions were, in their minds, an attempt to receive leniency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our common law has been contorted to make way for confessions made other than with the full consent of the accused. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There were two broad possibilities: first, that the boys' confessions were suggested by the police, and, second, that the confessions were true. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The jury was entitled, nevertheless, to accept the police evidence as to the oral confessions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The present rule about confessions is that confessions must be voluntary. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 None the less, if there is any error of doubt about how evidence or confessions were obtained, the conviction must be set aside. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People sometimes make confessions which are not necessarily correct when they have been in custody for a long time without a meal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We believe that it represents a major simplification and improvement in the entangled law on confessions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If two of the three confessions were shown to have been wholly false, how could any reliance be placed on the third? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People can be induced to make confessions in certain circumstances, whatever the safeguards. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I had passed to the admissibility of confessions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What percentage of confessions are being recorded in this way? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Each of those alleged confessions is highly dubious. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The challenge to such confessions has now assumed the proportions of a ritual in which an advocate, on instructions, is all but compelled to indulge. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One must have serious doubts and reservations about the way in which confessions are brought before the courts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They were further prohibited from hearing the confessions of women of whatever age in hermitages, private homes, the sacristy, or at night. The phenomenon of conversion - in theory, the aim of laws and policy; in practice viewed ambivalently - also reveals the embattled positions of rival confessions. In responding to our commentators and in coming clean about our own working methods we have some confessions to make. The texts we have examined thus far concern the confessions made by soldiers before they went into combat. Judging from the evidence of the rebel confessions, it was a central reason for the uprising of 1795. Moreover, the view of early liberty of private judgement had an important corollary for general discussions of creeds and confessions. Revelations and confessions produce resolution and stability by defeating ignorance and equalising the knowledge of the audience and the characters. We witness actions, confessions, and shards of a love story, but never long enough for them to coalesce into a grand narrative. All these cases, however, were resolved by eliciting confessions from the suspects after confronting them with the evidence. Jurists frequently relied on confessions to validate the scientific basis of latent fingerprint identification. Another tactic is minimisation, providing excuse or justification or downplaying the seriousness of the crime to encourage confessions by implying that lenient sentencing will ensue. As theological divides hardened in the second half of the sixteenth century, it became even more difficult to occupy a middle ground between the confessions. People were urged to submit to the interpretative authority of their pastors in subscribing the confessions that were recommended to them. The strictures against proselytism were designed to ensure that the rival confessions tolerated each other. Since male fans of other stars tend to maintain a degree of reserve, these confessions seem especially unusual. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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