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‘Infants can be traumatically injured in many ways, and many instances are unwitnessed.’
‘Howling through the silent town at night on his Harley-Davidson, the motorcyclist must believe himself analogous to the tree that falls silently in the forest because it falls unwitnessed.’
‘On his part, Dolly cannot sign away his property with a casual, unwitnessed, letter.’
‘The most unsettling aspect of geological deep time was the loneliness of pre-Adamic history, a time span of many millions of years that had gone unwitnessed by human eyes.’
‘This gap in her memory will continue to leave the event unwitnessed, keeping her fractured self alienated and whirling in a confused temporality, a fractured chronology.’
‘Suffering that goes unwitnessed eventually erodes self-witness, until the suffering exists not in a state of repression but in a limbo of habituation where one even stops noticing that one has stopped noticing.’
‘This is perhaps most striking in Venezuela, where politics and society have been militarized to an extent unwitnessed since the restoration of democracy in 1958.’
‘The closest beaches then are in raucous Ocean Beach, Mission Beach, or Pacific Beach, where coming in even at 3 a.m. would be difficult unwitnessed.’
‘Time of arrest is unreliable for arrest witnessed by bystanders and unavailable for unwitnessed arrests, and time of first shock is irrelevant to patients who do not receive shocks.’
‘A prospective, case-control study that focused on modifiable factors reported that unwitnessed aspiration, sedative medication, and the number of comorbidities were associated significantly with pneumonia.’
‘It may be more likely to arise following an enquiry into, for example, the identity of the aggressor in an unwitnessed fight; but it can arise even after an enquiry, aided by good experts, into, for example, the cause of the sinking of a ship.’
‘An unwitnessed codicil to his will stipulated that they should return to Dublin if a permanent home were allocated to them.’
‘He supplied a court, or the Crown supplied a court, a statement that was undated, unsigned and unwitnessed and put that in as evidence and the court accepted it.’
‘In unwitnessed trauma, survivors' expectation that they will not be believed nor have even the right to be believed comes to silence their longing to be believed.’
‘This year we witnessed the unfortunate political vehemence and fury surrounding allowing a patient to die a natural death when she had been in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years after an unwitnessed cardiac arrest.’
‘A codicil to his will expressed his intention of returning the French pictures to Dublin, but it was unwitnessed, creating a long-term legal dispute about their ownership.’
‘And yet, whenever an unwitnessed crime is alleged, such speculation is valid.’
‘Risk factors include poorly controlled convulsions, multiple changes of drug treatment, and poor compliance death occurring unwitnessed often at night for obscure respiratory or cardiac reasons.’
‘Then, at some moment mercifully unwitnessed, an attempt to rise higher, to fly, met by an all but invisible limit, beating wings pinioned, deep instinct denied.’
‘This is particularly important when death is sudden or unwitnessed.’