Sentences with phrase «as circumstantial»

Are they trying to keep me unemployed, or is Jane Doe's list of rules, equally as circumstantial to the point of irrelevance — Or are both good or are both bad?

It follows that the evidence of vehicle damage was relevant on this issue and the trial judge did not err in instructing the jury that they could use it as circumstantial evidence.

These paintings do not belong to the category of abstract painting that moves far from society and strives for pure sensation but rather stand as circumstantial recordings of information, drawing together the complexity of social information and the purity of abstract painting and perhaps ultimately reducing different social, environmental, and individual actions into colors and shapes that represent different forms of information.

According to the Gravity Blanket's original Kickstarter campaign, these blankets can be used «to treat a variety of ailments, including insomnia, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive - compulsive disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, as well as circumstantial stress and prolonged anxiety.»

Not exact matches

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.

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We always point to this existence, the universe and life in it, as «Prima Facie» circumstantial evidence of God, hence «Natural Revelation,» as well as the Scriptures, hence «Special Revelation.»

Eventually all of the circumstantial pieces of evidence (each of which could possibly have a natural cause) cross into the world of statistical impossibility when taken together... unless intelligent design is accepted as a solution.

Mays raises an interesting hermeneutical issue when he admits that his interpretation of Whitehead's metaphysics as a search for a logical structure of utmost generality may be said to be «largely circumstantial, based upon attempts to set up correspondences between different parts of his writings» (PW 94/98).

Naturally Mormon writers deny this and defend the book as a genuine revelation received through the prophet Joseph Smith.27 It is impossible to enter here into the merits of the controversy, but there is much circumstantial evidence to support the claim of non-Mormon scholars.

People other than Jesus, for reasons both circumstantial and substantial, do not grab us as profoundly.

With this recent history as context, Kurtis works his way through the cases of Ray Krone (whom DNA evidence proved innocent of the murder of a woman in Chicago) and Thomas Kimball (who was exonerated after a careful vetting of circumstantial evidence).

Pretty circumstantial evidence I know, but when you add what the Chelsea captain John Terry said about Cech on social media, that evidence is mounting, as revealed in yet another Metro report.

Partly this is circumstantial: Agovino is spending more and more of his time either working or in Europe, and as such the focus on the game in the US naturally drifts.

As for Kripal - No investigation has yet found any evidence (even circumstantial) that points to Russia.

And at Silver's retrial, prosecutors say all the activities that may no longer be official acts — meetings with lobbyists, helping Taub set up a mesothelioma charity race and find jobs for his kids, using official letterhead to oppose a methadone clinic near a Glenwood property — can still be put before the jury as «circumstantial evidence.»

But prosecutors argued — and, apparently, persuaded jurors — that circumstantial evidence showed implicit threats and understandings as part of the «Skelos shake down playbook.»

Circumstantial evidence played a key role in the case as Erie County District Attorney John Flynn explained that there was no DNA evidence linking Suarez to the murder of Freddy Dizon.

But, as a friend, I really hope that this story is not true... And I do have my doubts about its veracity, have nothing to do with the circumstantial back - and - forth that seems to be going on.»

In pretrial skirmishes over evidence such as Taub's «Miles for Meso» email, however, U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni, the no - nonsense ex-FBI counsel who will preside, acknowledged that prosecutors must prove Silver's intent, but noted that a witness's belief can be strong circumstantial proof.

I have no hard evidence of that fact such as a written contract, but it seems that the circumstantial evidence would be enough to lead any reasonable person to conclude that you have the Rockland GOP acting as the CIA with certain individuals in the role of a shell company handler.

Will our belief in other universes always depend on circumstantial evidence, such as gravity tests, or could we find real proof?

They frequently have to rely on circumstantial evidence and guesswork to assign a date of manufacture for ancient silk clothing and tapestries, as traditional carbon dating requires samples so large that it visibly damages the fabrics.

Circumstantial evidence strongly pointed to China as the primary origin of the mercury; the industrial processes that produce the kinds of pollutants Jaffe was seeing on Cheeka Peak should release mercury as well.

On Earth, microbes have churned out as much as 95 percent of all atmospheric methane, so finding that gas in Mars» air would have been solid circumstantial evidence of life.

Instead, the wisdom that people used to get their bodies to look awesome and feel strong as well was mostly anecdotal and circumstantial.

There may be a reason the writer / director only made one other feature (Circumstantial Evidence -LSB-» 45]-RRB-: his sense of humor probably wasn't for everyone, especially during as scary a time as World War II.

This is the kind of thing you'd expect on a women's cable network movie - of - the - week, and screenwriter Allison Burnett (working from, what I've heard, a more meta - fictional novel by Charles Baxter; this kind of circumstantial plotting might actually work as meta - fiction) takes a kind of dopey sincerity about the whole thing.

And some seeming changes at festivals as much circumstantial as fundamental.

Circumstantial peril humanizes Gang - ok to some extent, but he's always portrayed as a comically desperate fixer.

His success in that case makes him a media darling as well, which draws the attention of accused murderer Douglas Benoit (Hurt, 1984), who wants the young lawyer's sense of style to help him prevail against overwhelming circumstantial evidence and a lack of alibi.

Under a 1939 U.S. Supreme Court decision involving movie tickets, now known as the Interstate Circuit Doctrine, collusion can be proven by circumstantial evidence when it's clear that without the agreement of the group, each firm would be acting against its own interest, he said.

Circumstantial evidence indicates whaling could have contributed to this population's decline, as the increase in whaling activity in the 17th and 18th centuries coincided with the population's disappearance.

(Editor's note: the interviewee was originally listed as Director Hidetaka Miyazaki, as that was the name on the interview schedule, among other circumstantial communication oddities.

Bik Van der Pol describe the project as a process of «uploading with circumstantial evidence», a method that proposes a new circle of communication between different types of «reflections», based on premises of ambiguity.

The project's sampling may be characterized not so much as random, as convivial and circumstantial; there are enough particularieties here to interrupt any generalities about the nature of the group.

Her black and white photographs are overlaid with boldly printed provocative captions such as «don't buy us with apologies» and «we are your circumstantial evidence» to examine power, identity, gender and sexuality.

He describes compelling, if circumstantial, evidence that most of the vandals were not farmers, as organizers of the attack had intimated (and many media had accepted as fact).

If these two lines match as closely as Peterson claims in his presentation, then I will be willing to accept his position (knowing that it still could be circumstantial but nevertheless it is what it is).

We understand that you berated our nominator at some length following the article for utilising anecdotal and circumstantial evidence, even though such data - for example allegorical paintings by Breughel - are frequently used by scientists such as Phil Jones and Professor Brian Fagan to usefully illustrate the deterioration in the climate in the 16th century.

There is ample circumstantial evidence that it has a significant impact, such as the Little Ice Age that occurred during the last grand minimum, as well as the unusually cold climates that also matched past weak cycles, now, and also in the early 19th and 20th centuries.

Usually the best we can hope for is circumstantial evidence, «as when you find a trout in the milk.»

Also add the possibility of a solar effect, as yet poorly understood, but the circumstantial evidence is building up.

People can be convicted of murder on the basis of overwhelming circumstantial evidence, as the public has been reminded recently.

Jury instructions inform fact - finders there is no difference in the evidentiary weight given to direct evidence as opposed to circumstantial evidence.

While the majority of reporters are professional enough to handle circumstantial feelings of boredom, bias, unexpected anger, etc., some reporters aren't as adaptable.

The British Columbia Court of Appeal overturned the guilty verdict of Bradshaw from the lower court as it deemed that the re-enactment was hearsay evidence that did not demonstrate circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness necessary to meet the threshold reliability test (Bradshaw at para 32).

While you don't need to give clients all of your reasons for increasing your legal fees, you might want to point out circumstantial changes such as moving your office to a more convenient location or needing to pay employees with an online paralegal degree more money after graduation.

It could conceivably amount to circumstantial evidence, derived from the expert's experience, from which an inference as to the origin of the complainant's DNA could reasonably be drawn.

That being the case, the court felt comfortable holding that there was sufficient circumstantial evidence that the trigger mechanism was as it was when it left Remington's control.