Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is bear testimony to and its meaning is “bear witness to, be evidence of, be proof of, prove, demonstrate, connfirm, substantiate, vouch for”.
Example Sentence: The functioning of the monsoon session of Parliament this year bears testimony to this fact: the Lok Sabha’s productivity was 47% and the Rajya Sabha only 42%. It may be mentioned here that Parliament has 24 Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committees (DRSC), comprising members of the Parliament of both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha in the ratio 2:1, which are duly constituted by the Speaker of the Lok Sabha and the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, jointly..
This phrase is present in The Hindu article An essential pit stop in parliamentary business and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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