Translation for '
to confess' from English to Norwegian
VERB | to confess | confessed | confessed confessing | confesses | |
SYNO | to concede | to confess | to fink | ... |
VERB to infinitive | simple past | past participle
present participle | 3rd person
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- Speaking as an alleged eyewitness, Marcellinus recounts how Theodorus and several others were made to confess their deceit through the use of torture, and cruelly punished.
- She goes to church to confess her infidelity and afterwards calls at Raymond and Rita's store to close out the cash register.
- FBI Agent Ralph Himmelsbach wrote, "I have to confess, if I were going to look for Cooper...
- When Lovo hangs up after claiming that he must have gotten a wrong number, Tony forces him to confess to the hit and then has Guino kill him.
- Prolonged polygraph examinations are sometimes used as a tool by which confessions are extracted from a defendant, as in the case of Richard Miller, who was persuaded to confess largely by polygraph results combined with appeals from a religious leader.
- During this point of the passage, Job has yet to confess his sins to God.
- Those who signed the covenant had to confess their sins, consecrate their property and their labor to the society, and live as celibates.
- Hurston's "Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States" was published posthumously in 2001 as "Every Tongue Got to Confess."
- In Germany, the words "stehen" (to stand) and "gestehen" (to confess) are identical in the present perfect: "habe gestanden".
- Inspired by the horrific events of Nazi Germany, Milgram's obedience experiments have been used to explain a range of social influences on the individual—including how police interrogators can get innocent people to confess to crimes they did not commit.
- As he realizes the evil in his deeds he tries to confess and take on the punishment for his acts of crime.
- Cohen is put in charge of the betting casinos; Dragna is forced to confess to a raging Bugsy that he stole $14,000 and is told he now answers to Cohen.
- The "Dictionary of American Hymnology" claims it is included in more than a thousand published hymnals, and recommends its use for "occasions of worship when we need to confess with joy that we are saved by God's grace alone; as a hymn of response to forgiveness of sin or as an assurance of pardon; as a confession of faith or after the sermon".
- When a senior crewman says the murderers could escape justice by claiming they found the ship after the murders took place, the Coast Guard captain orders a mock trial and execution, and the killers are forced to confess their crimes; it is later learned that the murdered owner was a businessman involved in a money laundering scheme for a Colombian drug cartel.
- LeChuck himself, when asked in the second and third games, refuses to answer the question; Guybrush can eventually prod LeChuck to confess that he does not know what the secret is.
- Ximénez states that she must stay in the chair "until lunch time with only a cup of coffee at 11", and begins to shout at her to confess [...] only to have Biggles break down and confess.
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