second-hand information

A secondary source is second-hand information, not original to the researcher.

All offered second-hand information about his activities, or claimed ties to him that they could not prove.

Secondary evidence is second-hand information, removed in time and/or place from the incident referred to.

The death counts remain estimates from officials citing conflicting and sometimes second-hand information.

Many did not follow this instruction, but their accounts included second-hand information of varying reliability.

Pryzbylewski (now a teacher) provides second-hand information as to where Lex was killed.

However, since I have not spoken to him directly, do not quote me on that - it is only second-hand information.

The report is based on second-hand information from NGOs and other organisations.

"Until we verify - or until the story begins to have consequences - it's second-hand information," he wrote.

Nobody knows how extensive the errors are, which occurred because the Government failed to test each food and accepted second-hand information without requiring documentation.

It's hardly a legal brief; there's a lot of speculation, rumour, and second-hand information.'

They felt that such schemes allowed young people to have direct experience of engineering rather than relying purely upon second-hand information (from teachers or the media).

From time to time I hear a snippet here or there about you or your boat, but often second-hand information is altogether wrong.

"Because I don't like second-hand information.

Told of this second-hand information, Mr. Toohey chuckled and declined to comment.

'it's second-hand information at best.

He said that eyewitness accounts of Khmer Rouge atrocities by refugees were hearsay and second-hand information.

He might have said, " We are going to teach you never to rely on second-hand information when first-hand is available "-a very profitable lesson.

Philosopher Andy Clark speculates that the ways in which minds deal with narrative (second-hand information) and memory (first-hand perception) are cognitively indistinguishable.

Many of the great teachers the world has known, have not left a line of their own composition and we only know what they taught through tradition or second-hand information.

Mr. Zolotow did not report second-hand information or news from handouts, Mr. Gelb said, and he broke many important stories.

Her sense of how the world works is based on instinct, wishful thinking and second-hand information, and is almost entirely at odds with the way the world works.

Suddenly, I wanted nothing more than to read this Elmer Gregor, even though he would doubtlessly have nothing to tell me except second-hand information about my own tribe!