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Informant meaning
One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer. | A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information.
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But it remains unclear how the informant first came by the information that led to his meetings with Mr Papadopoulos and Mr Page – and his wider role as an FBI informant.
He was speaking to a man Ruthowsky calls an informant, a drug dealer the prosecution says was paying the officer for protection and not an informant at all.
Factors influencing the reliability of genealogical information include: the knowledge of the informant (or writer); the bias and mental state of the informant (or writer); the passage of time and the potential for copying and compiling errors.
Knowledge of the informant The informant is the individual who provided the recorded information.
A 35-year-old notorious bandit informant, has been arrested by the Zamfara State Police Command.
According to an Odessa Police Department report, detectives in the department’s intelligence division heard Clinton Tyrel Williams might be selling M30 pills and had a confidential informant set up a meeting to buy 10 such pills from him.
After the charges of corruption were made against Moitra by Dubey, based on information he received from his contact, she called him out, and publicly stated that there was a motive since his informant held a grudge against her as a “jilted ex”.
An anonymous call can provide the police with enough details to open an investigation, and because no one ever knows the source of the call, the informant remains safe and unknown.
And the informant is one of those tricky international spies who has used spycraft to go dark.
Anybody with any common sense actually believes the "pizza parlor" story and spy/informant staking it out?
At a Spurs game against Brighton in April there were two separate reports; one of ‘racial abuse towards Japanese players and the Jewish community’ and another of ‘racist, homophobic abuse heard by informant’.
But he ended up as an informant himself, imprisoned in a supermax prison in Arizona.
During his time as Hand, Tyrion proves he is not above manipulation, like when he uses false information to root out Cersei's informant, yet that proves nothing about his success.
He claimed the informant attempted to get the congregation to talk about jihad, and the police allegedly arrived and slammed Hasan onto the hood of his car.
However, upon returning to Ghana from one of her visits to Nigeria, she received a phone call from an informant who revealed Iyanya’s secret affair with another actress.
In each of the transactions, Montgomery testified, the confidential informant was dispatched to purchase heroin from Harvey.
Molitor, 39, participated in daytime surveillance of Whitmer’s home a few weeks earlier, riding with Fox and FBI informant Dan Chappel and recording video, according to evidence.
Murphy is a protected informant.
Recently, PDEA-7 had been monitoring Balverde after receiving a tip from a ‘confidential informant’ about the latter’s alleged illegal activities.
Self-proclaimed snitch Anna Korobkova told that she is following in the footsteps of her grandfather, who was an anonymous informant for the Soviet secret police during Stalin's reign.