6 sentences with 'witnessed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word witnessed and other words derived from it.
• « Dr. Epstein had witnessed Dr. Joseph Ransohoff's work with the ultrasonic aspirator on brain tumors, and wondered why the same could not be done with tumors in the spinal cord. »
• « She reported to the police that she had witnessed a shooting, but was afraid to add that she might have been able to identify the driver of the van. »
• « From the early Archaic era, Athens witnessed a series of struggles and compromises between the aristocrats - wealthy landowning families who controlled most of the land and most of the political power - and everyone else, particularly the free citizens and farmers of Athens who were not aristocrats. »
• « In addition, the Abbasid Caliphate witnessed a significant increase in literacy. Not only were Muslims (men and women alike) encouraged to memorise the Qur'an itself, but scholars and merchants were often interchangeable; unlike medieval Christianity, Islam did not reject trade as somehow morally tainted. »
• « On the one hand, the 19th century witnessed spectacular political, economic and social changes that saw the birth of new nations and the demise of old kingdoms. »
• « In the autumn of 1914 the scale of the battles grew to surpass anything Europe had witnessed since the Napoleonic Wars (soon to be dwarfed). »