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  • v  advance evidence for

  • Claude Chabrol defines absurdity as the gap between the awesome finality of death and the trivial reasons men adduce for killing or putting themselves in the way of being killed.
  • Nor does he adduce any historic arguments to prove that doctors make great governors of men, perhaps because such arguments are difficult to find.
  • Hungarian reviewers noted that Prince Galitzin has seen fit to adduce no evidence whatever in support of his assertions.
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  • Anthony Hylton in Jamaica Gleaner
    Where the Crown seeks at trial to adduce evidence gathered abroad, the Charter provisions governing trial processes in Canada ensure that the appropriate balance is struck and due consideration is shown for the rights of an accused being... Louis LeBel http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_LeBel&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGuInJ9DkFEeVdj38Gz8rlVwrQbnw Law Times http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.lawtimesnews.com/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D2264%26Itemid%3D82&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNECtybdEnZ23BezpQ0YcxDCsg1MaA Jun 18, 2007 1220 1849 adduce The simple truth is that there is no evidence that anyone can adduce to back up the assertion that Jamaica has adopted a line or taken a position that is not in keeping with its principled foreign policy," said Senator Hylton.
  • Conrad Black in Globe and Mail
    In reference to his wife's alleged shopping trips, which also included buying $2,000 worth of exercise equipment, $2,700 in opera tickets and a $2,000 leather briefcase, Lord Black said prosecutors "failed to adduce sufficient proof that Mr. Black...

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