Sentences with phrase «against the evidence as»

The Conversation's FactCheck team will be in Adelaide for the next two weeks, working with academics to test politicians» claims against the evidence as South Australians prepare to vote on March 17.

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But «there is no evidence that Pershing himself» used pigs as a tactic against Muslim insurgents, Politifact wrote last year.

In almost every case, however, Buffett's bromides against private equity get raised as supporting evidence.

However, May's sincerity was questioned by Labour's Lisa Nandy, who reminded her of three previous occasions when, as Home Secretary, she had been failed to act on information suggesting that incriminating evidence against individual MPs was routinely used by whips to enforce party discipline.

In this case, the black - and - white evidence against the cartel was revealed in the form of damaging email communications which included statements such as «with a bit of talking and cooperation between us, we all win!»

On Sunday, the specialist Android website tweeted a photo showing the device's navigation bar as faintly visible against a gray background — evidence, it said, of screen burn - in after just a week's use.

The Republican nominee offered up coverage of a spate of recent sexual - assault allegations against him as supposed evidence the media was rigged against him.

Regulatory changes had been in the wind for some time as the evidence against the program built up, yet employers relied on the lobbying efforts of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business to maintain the program rather than taking steps to improve domestic recruitment and training efforts or adjust wages and benefits to attract workers.

Trump has repeatedly touted his business experience as evidence he is qualified to be president, but Clinton has turned his business record against him, calling him out for bankrupting several of his businesses.

As evidence continues to stack up against sugar, consumers are looking for ways to have their cake and eat it too — literally.

Prejudice against Jews is at least as old as 1654 in North America and its negative evidences may be found in the histories of most of the clubs and colleges and residential districts of the country.

While people who are breastfed are less likely to grow up to be obese, as the World Health Organization has noted, studies so far have found no evidence the act of breastfeeding offers protection against obesity.

The information that is submitted with be gathered as evidence and intelligence that will be used by all the three enforcement agencies (the CRTC, Competition Bureau, and Office of the Privacy Commissioner) to support purse and support their investigations against those who violate CASL.

The idea of hygge as a trait of Scandinavian culture is developed in the course of the interpretation, and its limitations are also discussed against ethnographic evidence that comparable spatial and social dynamics unfold in other cultural contexts.

But NBC News interviewed Louise Ma and Susan Lewis on camera as well, who didn't have that particular family grudge against Clinton, and to my knowledge there's no evidence they had some other unspecified grudge.

Investors are looking for evidence that the White House economic adviser or Federal Reserve chairman can act as an insurance policy against a trade war.

And, while GDPR advocates have pointed to the lobbying Google and Facebook have done against the law as evidence that it will be effective, that is to completely miss the point: of course neither company wants to incur the costs entailed in such significant regulation, which will absolutely restrict the amount of information they can collect.

By midday Tuesday Mr. Snowden himself, in a Twitter message from his exile in Moscow, declared that «circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom indicates Russian responsibility» for publication, which he interpreted as a warning shot to the American government in case it was thinking of imposing sanctions against Russia in the cybertheft of documents from the Democratic National Committee.

In the case of the dozen or more allegations of sexual misconduct against Trump himself, as in the case of ousted White House staff secretary Rob Porter, the weight of the available evidence comes down conclusively on the side of the accusers.

In many ways, Quebecers — especially those in Montreal — have assumed the mantle of environmental protectionism many most commonly associate with British Columbians, as is evidenced by — among other things — a hardline stance against the proposed Energy East pipeline project.

The following report is an examination of pertinent evidence against the ESF, as well as information implicating the Federal Reserve in a scheme to artificially depress bullion prices.

When the FBI pushes back against that, as it probably will in some way, Republicans will take that very pushback as further evidence of the need to «cleanse» the bureau, as Speaker Ryan put it.

As for the lawsuits against Gawker Media, «the evidence has built up over time that there are questions that are unanswered here,» Mr. Denton said.

That could in theory help stock markets, which are generally boosted by lower rates, though investors will be weighing that against the evidence that the underlying economy is not as strong as hoped.

Depending on what it says, Trump could argue that it provides evidence of deep bias against him at the FBI and use it as a pretext to fire top Justice Department officials he perceives as insufficiently loyal, like Rosenstein.

It has quickly been accepted as foundational evidence in support of the tariffs and other punitive trade measures that President Donald Trump's administration has initiated against China in recent months.

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Dawkins argues that while there appear to be plenty of individuals that would place themselves as «1» due to the strictness of religious doctrine against doubt, most atheists do not consider themselves «7» because atheism arises from a lack of evidence and evidence can always change a thinking person's mind.

The growing #MeToo movement and sexual harassment claims against business leaders as well as a growing body of evidence that diversity boosts success and returns have heightened scrutiny of all - male or male - heavy boards.

Khader Asnan is entering his 61st day as a hunger striker in an Israeli prison, being held under an administrative detention order without trial, charges, or any indication of the evidence against him.

To say that evolution was «proven» 100 years ago is to disregard the fact that even Darwin doubted his own contentions (as he states in origin of species), for every bit of scientific evidence for evolution there is scientific evidence against it.

The historical evidence of Jesus Christ «Most critical historians agree that Jesus was a Galilean Jewish Rabbi who was regarded as a teacher and healer in Judaea, [18] that he was baptized by John the Baptist, and that he was crucified in Jerusalem on the orders of the Roman Prefect, Pontius Pilate, on the charge of sedition against the Roman Empire.

But the claims of religion which touch upon things which can be observed and tested in the real world can be proven true or untrue as the evidence for or against those things is discovered.

As it is, there's no legitimate evidence to suggest that and plenty against it.

The Ethics Committee dropped its final charges against Gingrich not long before he resigned as speaker, despite finding that Gingrich had in fact violated one rule by repeatedly using a political consultant paid by GOPAC to develop the Republican political agenda, because there was no evidence he was continuing to do so.

Dogma acts as a shield against evidence.

In the pages of the Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan wonders if a string of failures for the Obama administration counts as mounting evidence not only against his primary claim to rule, executive competence, but also against the undergirding premises of liberal political philosophy.

In presenting beauty as evidence against the archbishop, Dawkins invokes something that he, as an atheist, can not finally believe in.

For instance — You can throw as much evidence against a god disproving it... lets say Thor for example... but if someone has faith in Thor... your communication is mute.

Sadly, these initiatives are fought tooth and nail by anti-gay groups (sadly pretty much all of which identify as Christian) who want to claim (against all evidence) that being gay makes you more likely to commit suicide not anything that you suffer as a result of being gay, just some arbitrary offense against God thing.

I am an avid reader of the sciences and philosophy as well so I believe that with my educational and life's background I can speak intelligently on these subjects but certainly not exhaustively and stand ready to discuss evidence (s) for and against with anyone willing to dialog without rancor or name calling or nastiness.

Unless there's specific evidence against her that suggests that her husbands words and actions are hers as well then shouldn't we as her brothers and sisters in Christ seek to honor and protect her?

I would add... the battle against ones personal sin (s) is probably an evidence that the person who claims Christ as Lord is a Believer.

But any classical theists who admit that their belief is only the most plausible conclusion based on the evidence available must regard this difficulty as another bit of evidence against their idea.

And as you've obviously researched all religions to select the one you did, show us the evidence against the other gods and why you made your choice.

How much time are people willing to take to consider the historical evidence of the bible, for example, before making a decision, as opposed to boldly voicing a stance against something that interferes with a self - desire, an opinion or relative truth.

What I think is funny is that creationist use this as supposed «evidence» against evolution, yet have no explanation as to why there are any fossils at all.

Furthermore, of itself it furnishes no antecedent evidence whatever against the viability of at least some form of metaphysical system which would postulate a world of interrelated, dynamic Entities which endure in time as essentially self - identical individuals, which move themselves to their own activities, and which, precisely by themselves changing, change their accidental qualities over time.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor of the pancreationist, panexperientialist view that the actual world is made up exhaustively of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack of complete determinism seems to hold even at the most elementary level of nature; that bacteria seem to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears to be no place to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature to be most fundamentally a complex of events (not of enduring substances).