Do we say corroborate or cooperate

corroborate 133 occurrences

I accept your statement in good faith, but I cannot corroborate it from my own knowledge.

All these evidences point to one conclusion; all corroborate and confirm one another.

This is a fact which was first pointed out by Mr. Darwin, from the observations which he made in the world-famous Voyage of the Beagle; and the observations of subsequent great naturalists have all gone to corroborate his theory.

Common fame, my lords, is admitted in courts of law as a kind of auxiliary or supplemental evidence, and is allowed to corroborate the cause which it appears to favour.

Joe could corroborate this last, and now understood why Thompson had cried out that West's "good news" had killed his father.

Taking the ordinary run of evidence, if I may use the word, and the ordinary mode of cross-examination, which, in the hands of unskilled practitioners, generally tends to corroborate the evidence-in-chief, the case was overwhelmingly proved, and how sad and painful it was to contemplate none can realize who do not understand anything below the surface of human existence.

The small number of sick, and the slight character of the ailments, corroborate what we have ourselves observed from the hygienic point of view.

The history of naval warfare does not corroborate this view.

I am I, and You are You, with all my heart; but conceive how these lean propositions change and brighten when, instead of words, the actual you and I sit cheek by jowl, the spirit housed in the live body, and the very clothes uttering voices to corroborate the story in the face.

Their bodies he viewed himself but in regard to their property he accepted sworn statements, the men themselves taking the oath (with others to corroborate their allegations) and accounting for their lack of funds as well as for their habits of life.

Various incidental expressions corroborate the idea that servants became such by their own contract.

The error of the German astronomer would seem to corroborate the hypothesis of the Italian poet, who doubtless did not assign that local habitation to the goddess of fashion without mature reflection.

Some of these sentences, moreover, were confoundedly disquieting to me, coming as they did to corroborate much that I felt myself; corroboration, toowhich made it so much more convincingfrom a totally different point of view.

The presence of the deposit of mud, as well as the height of the surrounding rocks, many of which were doubtless out of water previously to the phenomenon, went to corroborate this opinion.

" This was indeed a wonderful story; and the fact that Bertha Nugent was on board a derelict vessel and should happen to fall in with me on board of another, was one of those events which corroborate the trite and hackneyed adage, that truth is stranger than fiction.

None of the texts, however, appears to corroborate this theory.

Louis the Fat, to corroborate it, as they used to say at the time, by his approbation and by the great seal of the crown.

Know, then, all Christians present and to come, that I have formed at Noyon a commune, constituted by the counsel and in an assembly of clergy, knights, and burghers; that I have confirmed it by oath, by pontifical authority, and by the bond of anathema; and that I have prevailed upon our lord King Louis to grant this commune and corroborate it with the king's seal.

They corroborate the notion of a larger life of which we are a part, 308.

The poor, scanty clothes and personal belongings corroborate the fact that the accused is poor and has not enough to eat or wear, nor anything but the most scanty shelter.

" At that instant, and as if to corroborate Captain Hull, a sailor's voice was heard from the front of the ship: "A whale to larboard!

Confirm, corroborate.

Or, with luck, you might learn that he habitually slept in a hammock, and corroborate this by observing the towzled state of his back hair.

As a rule, so far as our information goes, it is not recognised phantasms of the dead, in waking vision, which corroborate the savage belief in the persistence of the spirit of the departed.

You are enabled, through me, to corroborate some facts and identify the ship.

cooperate 125 occurrences

Púladwund was proud of the honor conferred upon him, and readily complied; hastening the preparation of his own army to cooperate with that of Afrásiyáb.

The Storthing further declared that Norway had no ill feeling against King Oscar or his dynasty of Sweden, and asked the king to cooperate in selecting one of his own house to be king of Norway.

have in common, possess in common, be seized in common, have as joint tenants, possess as joint tenants, be seized as joint tenants &c n.. join in; have a hand in &c (cooperate)

The workers and those who lead and cooperate with them should not have their combined efforts handicapped by those who have never done actual work or who have never been performing an essential service.

In general it is safe to have faith in the honesty of the workers and those who cooperate with themat least we can start with the assumption that honesty and square dealing are not monopolized by other professions.

That they are all interdependent and must cooperate.

In 1768, after parliament had passed the Townshend revenue acts, there was no congress, but Massachusetts sent a circular letter to the other colonies, inviting them to cooperate in measures of resistance, and the other colonies responded favourably.

To cooperate with you in this desirable work is a fervent and favorite wish of my heart.

The objects which you have recommended to the notice of the Legislature will in the course of the session receive our careful attention, and with a true zeal for the public welfare we shall cheerfully cooperate in every measure that shall appear to us best calculated to promote the same.

GENTLEMEN: With real pleasure I receive your address, recognizing the prosperous situation of our public affairs, and giving assurances of your careful attention to the objects demanding legislative consideration, and that with a true zeal for the public welfare you will cheerfully cooperate in every measure which shall appear to you best calculated to promote the same.

We shall cheerfully cooperate in any further measures that shall appear on consideration to be requisite.

The execution of these maxims belongs to your representatives; but it is necessary that public opinion should cooperate.

"You don't intend to cooperate with him?" he almost screeched.

"Gene," said Captain Marks-Owens; "you've apparently been eager to cooperate.

That gradually rebuilds the physical and nervous conditions, and exorcism is not administered until there is sufficient reserve force for the patient partly, at any rate, to cooperate.

The members of the Confederate government seem to have been interested only in getting away from Richmond and to have given no thought to the duty they owed to their own people to cooperate with the victors in securing a prompt return of law and order.

The same fallacious limitation, the same exclusion of the many various causes that cooperate in the production of political results, is to be discerned in nearly every argument.

It has been claimed over and over again, that Pratt promised Aguinaldo recognition of tile independence of the Philippines if he and his people would cooperate with the United States forces against Spain.

He tried to play it himself by cabling Senator Hoar, on the same day, that as the man who introduced General Aguinaldo to the American government through the consul at Singapore he was prepared to swear that the conditions under which Aguinaldo promised to cooperate with Dewey were independence under a protectorate.

She got the women to cooperate with her in other ways.

I have thus far, under this head, been endeavoring to show the importance of securing, by gentle measures, a majority of the scholars to cooperate with the teacher in his plans.

This force is to cooperate with the troops in the service of the United States in repelling the invasion of the State of Missouri and in suppressing rebellion therein.

Kentucky no doubt will cooperate, and through her legislature make the most judicious selection of a line.

On the 6th day of March last, by a special message, I recommended to Congress the adoption of a joint resolution to be substantially as follows: Resolved, That the United States ought to cooperate with any State which may adopt a gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State, in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system.

In discharging the high duties thus imposed on me by the Constitution I repeat to the House my entire willingness to cooperate in all financial measures, constitutional and proper, which in its wisdom it may judge necessary and proper to reestablish the credit of the Government.

Do we say   corroborate   or  cooperate