primary evidence

Primary evidence is first-hand information about an event, not based on other sources.

These stories stand in contrast to some of the primary evidence of the time.

This is primary evidence (material produced in the past), though it may well also offer a particular interpretation of an event.

Before deciding whether to convict him, the judges examined the primary evidence.

The primary evidence against her was her confession to the investigators.

It is also a concise source of primary evidence that documents local people and events.

Some of these are:(a) There is often a lack of primary evidence.

Primary evidence is the point of origin of all historical thought and writing.

Now, his statements will serve as the primary evidence of criminal intent within Andersen.

There is no primary evidence, archaeological or textual, for the queen in Ethiopia.

The primary evidence used to support the report's finding of excess beds is hospital occupancy rates.

The primary evidence is scattered archaeological finds, which are often damaged or incomplete.

This stanza format is the primary evidence critics use to identify what has been written by him.

I ask primary evidence that you are a man, and refuse this appeal from the man to his actions.

She hid the primary evidence that will set Marimar free.

Clay tablets such as this one are primary evidence."

Archive sources have very special qualities, and should therefore lie at the heart of any attempt to use primary evidence in the history classroom.

(a) Primary evidence of birth in the United States.

Secondary sources and interpretations depend upon and must be tested against surviving primary evidence.

The primary evidence for a finite age for the whole Universe comes from observation of distant galaxies.

Very little primary evidence survives about the relationship between Burns and Ann Park.

There is no primary evidence that the concerts of 1980 and 81 took place under the Swaledale banner.

The primary evidence is that the average prices paid by customers, adjusted for inflation, fell by roughly 16 percent from 1996 to 2004.

The primary evidence for this is the route's width compared to nearby routes and its relative distance from existing settlements of the time.

Given the absence of primary evidence, the story of Sarnoff should be properly regarded as a legend.