Sentences with phrase «as evidence to the contrary»

It just happens as evidence to the contrary builds up.

I recommend taking a lot of family pictures as evidence to the contrary.»

Lest your friends tell you that new cars will never be collector vehicles, simply point to this P1 as evidence to the contrary.

For those of you who think presidential campaigns are predictable, and unlikely to have outlandish outcomes, we submit this year's presidential race as evidence to the contrary.

60 + comments with many deatiled, hyperlinked, in - line responses from the author and one of the very few OT comments (and a very brief one) is paraded as evidence to the contrary.

Those who think that lawyers can not be a vulnerable group could look to this case as evidence to the contrary.

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As expected, given his performance so far, the Republican candidate repeatedly stretched the truth, denied making certain statements despite ample evidence to the contrary, and twisted the facts until they broke.

According to a recent report by Accenture, «Despite evidence to the contrary, many Millennials believe the sector is lacking innovation, agility and creativity, as well as opportunities to engage in meaningful work.

In the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, some politicians today still cite sayings of Jesus as evidence that he would approve of their neglect of the poor.

Despite our desire for simplicity, good expert advice is usually heavy with qualifying statements, candid about evidence to the contrary, and not as simple as we'd like it to be.

«Contrary to the Prime Minister's claim that this decision is based on evidence, as an intervenor in the Kinder Morgan NEB process, I can confirm conclusively that there was no...

Just as important, at a time when fears over China's slowing economy are widespread and there's evidence of retail saturation in the country's major metropolitan areas, nearly half of survey participants said they expect to be better off financially in the next 12 months — and they are eager to spend, contrary to gloomy assumptions about the drag of sluggish economic growth on consumer sentiment.

This means, you hear evidence contrary to your opinion — and no matter how good and verified it is — you still deny it as «the best evidence out there».

Dala I didn't provide the evidence of Big Bang, evolution, geological record, etc, but I did use it as the basis of my position — you have yet to provide any evidence to the contrary or of your god.

Any thought to the contrary is speculative as zero other evidence of intelligent life exist.

Merriam - Webster's online dictionary defines «delusion» as follows: «Something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary; also, the abnormal state marked by such beliefs.»

Faith as contradicting rationality: In this view, faith is seen as those views that one holds despite evidence and reason to the contrary.

By contrast, traditional philosophy tends to emasculate texts like the above, construing them as mere anthropomorphisms, since obviously Gad can not be described in emotional and temporal terms — or so the doctrine goes, despite massive evidence of religious experience to the contrary.

The claim that celibacy has helped cause sexual abuse is a claim that runs utterly contrary to the evidence, and unjustly moves responsibility for despicably evil acts away from the abusers, and onto some environmental condition such as the discipline of celibacy in a priestly life.

Humans as a whole used to believe the Earth was flat, until evidence to the contrary was presented.

But, as Mr. Smith rightly observes, whether he is right to be so generous is very much an open question, and there is plenty of evidence to the contrary.

aside from several other internal evidences to the contrary (as i mentioned before, look up the pool of Bethesda), here is an extra-biblical corroboration of the immediate context regarding names.

Clearly the Founders had minds of their own, as is evidenced by the subtle religious differences among Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe, who, contrary to popular opinion, were neither radical deists nor evangelical Christians.

Intellectuals are inclined to think that they are certified as intellectuals by virtue of their capacity to complexify, and the messiness of history is such that any conflict provides ample opportunities to highlight evidence contrary to the general truth.

Faith would presumably be influenced by evidence to the contrary, as now the fact is no longer a question of faith, but one of evidence.

Contrary to this evidence of reality as seen, God continues to act toward human beings only through the word; that is, through proposal and discretion.

Just as Ryan keeps insisting, contrary to all evidence and common sense, that people don't care whether you cut their taxes or those of their bosses, he will keep insisting that his unpopular policies will win over Democratic - leaning voters, even as those voters keep voting Democrat.

I don't get comfort out of believing that I will someday die and not live on for eternity, but I accept it as true - since there's no compelling evidence to the contrary.

This is the myth of International security: the persistent belief, contrary to historic evidence as well as to logical demonstration, that states can continue sovereign and independent, while, at the same time, it is nevertheless possible to work out a system of security among — as distinct from above — them: international security.

I don't get comfort out of believing that I will someday die and not live on for eternity, but I accept it as true — since there's no compelling evidence to the contrary.

did re-coin the term to spoof the way politicians and TV pundits insist that what they feel and want to be true must be treated as true, all contrary evidence be damned.

The Universalist approach, that you seem to take, makes the same error as the Calvinists: Insisting on what God can and can not do, with a weight of Scriptural evidence to the contrary.

Religion teaches nonsensical, 5,000 - year - old knowledge as fact, despite overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary.

Argument from ignorance, also known as argumentum ad ignorantiam or «appeal to ignorance» (where «ignorance» stands for: «lack of evidence to the contrary»), is a fallacy in informal logic.

Creationism, which poses as a science, starts with the conclusion, and disregards any evidence to the contrary — it is not justified to call itself a «science»

We are told, as unbelievers, that we will go to hell, be punished, god will get us and so on.And you wonder why we come on here and ask questions, and then point out the fallacies in your logic, and you appear to not offer any evidence to the contrary.

Vermes is surely on the more solid ground here in contending that there is no evidence that Jesus was «hostile to the Torah in principle or refused to abide by it in practice»; to the contrary, «he acknowledged the Law of Moses as the foundation stone of his Judaism.

That Mormons believe that Native Americas are directly decedents of ancient Israeli peoples and as such are Jewish contrary to all genetic, archeological, and linguistic evidence.

They also suggested that a «specific market share, such as, for example, one third (based on international practice), could be presumed to confer market power unless there is strong evidence to the contrary.»

Despite evidence to the contrary, he claimed that these games constituted illegal gambling and were not classified as a game of skill.

Because of the prowess on the football pitch as the 25 - year - old has shown — combined with plummeting expectations of anything resembling loyalty in the modern footballer — the Salah - to - Madrid stories continue to have legs despite all evidence to the contrary.

As eternally optimistic supporters we all hope to dream regardless of the contrary evidence that history has generally delivered nightmares.

As for my opinion, I think it's very irresponsible for Time to make a blanket statement like that, especially when there is evidence that proves the contrary is true.

Contrary to the latter, Gaudot sees the EU as a «laboratory for the democracy of tomorrow», as evidenced by the Occupy movement, and other grassroots campaigns across Europe.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has welcomed a new revision of the model funding agreement for Free Schools by the Government in order to preclude «the teaching, as an evidence - based view or theory, of any view or theory that is contrary to established scientific and / or historical evidence and explanations.»

The claim mentioned on Wikipedia is that the German - Soviet non-aggression pact is emphasised as evidence somehow, but that seems to be cherry picking one or two things from a huge amount of evidence to the contrary.

He was pushed over the edge by their write - up of Jerome Corsi's latest paranoid fantasy (Obama - run concentration camps, no doubt intended for conservative «patriots»), but Jon's great sin was encouraging skeptical and critical thought about a series of beliefs that some have come to see as true despite all evidence to the contrary.

Politicians are emotional too, as they hold party ideals which may run contrary to evidence presented too them.

Bill Harriman, BASC's director of firearms, said: «BASC is opposed the Home Office proposal to prohibit the ownership of.50 cal rifles and those rifles based on the Manually Activated Release System on the grounds that they are not evidence - based as well as being contrary to the principles of better regulation.

Smearing everyone who supports him as a clueless trustafarian — in the face of concrete evidence to the contrary — is actively counterproductive.