Sentences with phrase «basis of flawed»

The basis of the flawed logic leading to U.S. wood being burned to power Europe, conservationists say, is an accounting formula: According to E.U. policy, wood pellets are considered a carbon - neutral fuel source, based on the principle that regenerating forests will eventually recapture the carbon released when the trees were cut.

Second, we believe that claims made on the basis of this flawed study feed the false hopes of many Americans, including policymakers, educators, and the general public, that we can find a single, simple solution, such as directly teaching phonics, to the real and complex problem of improving the reading of young children in high poverty schools.

Linda Darling - Hammond, a highly respected professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, testified during the Vergara trial that a teacher's performance should not be judged on the basis of flawed test rankings.

This paper — where conclusions are drawn on basis of flawed methodology — is not an exception.

Suddenly, the media had a narrative they understood (coverup and malfeasance) that somehow allowed them to question catastrophic global warming theory when they were unwilling to do so on the basis of flaws in the science.

Not exact matches

That could be a painful realization, but it is far preferable to basing decisions of any value on unreliable, flawed data.

Qualcomm vigorously refuted the premise of the FTC's claims against it, saying that «the complaint is based on a flawed legal theory, a lack of economic support and significant misconceptions about the mobile technology industry.»

Neuroscience can provide useful insights — such as why economists believe and act on the basis of narrow and sometimes flawed models.»

Many post program guidelines on their websites, including a schedule of payouts based on the seriousness of a flaw.

The Seattle - based cybersecurity firm found major security flaws in industrial models sold by Universal Robots, a division of U.S. technology company Teradyne Inc..

«Instead of a watch list limited to actual, known terrorists, the government has built a vast system based on the unproven and flawed premise that it can predict if a person will commit a terrorist act in the future,» Hina Shamsi, the head of the ACLU's National Security Project, told The Intercept.

But when a set of volunteers rated the responses based on how likely they were to hire each person, the minority of people who admitted to «real» flaws were perceived as more honest, and therefore as better hires.

David Kotok, senior executive of New Jersey — based Cumberland Advisors, thinks America could have done better, noting TARP was «flawed» and «expensive» and only «partially helped unfreeze markets.»

Some years ago, Ashley Good, founder and CEO of Toronto - based consultancy Fail Forward, was working for Engineers Without Borders in Ghana when it soon became clear that the project she was part of was horribly flawed and would not succeed.

In Moneyball (a film based on the Oakland A's game - changing season), Jonah Hill's character describes players getting «overlooked for a variety of biased reasons and perceived flaws — age, appearance, personality.»

A prominent example used by Cisco is JailbreakMe 2.0, the Safari - based iPhone flaw — which has since been patched — that allowed users to jailbreak with very little tampering of iOS.

«One of the biggest flaws with the UK set up is that it is based on self - reporting and Companies House (which runs the UK Corporate register) has limited resources to go after people who fail to provide information or provide incorrect information,» he said.

When Nilan had a falling - out with her rep, the fast - pay arrangement was seen to have a near - fatal flaw: «the problem was that at the end of the relationship, we didn't have a customer base, so it was like starting from scratch again.»

There's nothing that individuals can do; changing your WiFi password or using a different device won't help, since the flaw is embedded deep in the very basis of your internet connection.

The researchers, based out of the University of Leuven in Belgium, say that every WiFi network in every home, office, and coffee shop around the world shares this flaw.

Qualcomm has appealed the South Korean fine in court and contends the FTC's case, which was filed in the waning days of the Obama administration, is based on a flawed legal theory and fails to show harm.

Security researchers are warning that old Bitcoin addresses generated in the browser or through JavaScript - based wallet apps might be affected by a cryptographic flaw that allows attackers to brute - force private keys, take control of users» wallets, and steal funds.

60 % of FEMA claims being denied to households in Puerto Rico due to challenges evidencing property ownership highlights the critical flaw of relying on paper - based analog records in a risk - prone digital world.

If you compensate them based on the performance of the sales team, then the compensation system is flawed.

This highly flawed concept, widely taught in MBA and financial engineering programs, perceives volatility as an exogenous measurement of risk, ignoring its role as both a source of excess returns, and a direct influencer on risk itself... Systematic strategies are based on market volatility as a key decision metric for leverage... The majority of active management strategies rely on some form of volatility for excess returns and to make leverage decisions.

Bitcoin split into two, essentially, because of the network's flawed design from the outset, which prevented it from being able to keep up with the recent massive growth in the user base and the number of transactions those users are facilitating.

Your probability argument is based on a flawed understanding of statistics.

Not for the communist atrocities those were caused by attempts to engineer society, based on a flawed understanding of innate human nature and a fallacious belief in humans beings as blank slates.

Insult wars like these tend to leave both camps struggling to justify their entire being on the basis of their worst flaws, and I refuse to «stand with» either weakness or childishness.

I spend years in Apologetics and arrived at rational basis for my Christian faith, defend the faith against objections, and expose the perceived flaws of other world views.

You have no idea what you are talking about with your fairy tale illusion of what you THINK salvation is all about... it's a ridiculous concept based on flawed foundations right from the get go... here is my EVIDENCE... The record in Samuel tells us that it was the Lord who tempted David to do the numbering; that in Chronicles says it was Satan.

''... there is one major flaw in your thought is you are taking all your information and making assumputions based off of one book, that can't even be trusted to be totally true due to the number of years it has been in the hands of tyrants.»

They made flawed conclusions based on their own choice of what constituted happy words.

I believe that any religion is flawed at the foundation because it is based on fear, fear of not knowing what happens after we die.

I know based on science that this universe we exist in made us, so why could it not posess all the imagined powers of your God without the personality flaws?

You're seriously flawed in your assessment of me, many would disagree with you but then again you have no clue as to who I am - just a few lines on an anonymous blog... kudos for judging a person based on that and that alone.

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious said Friday that the assessment «was based on unsubstantiated accusations and (was) the result of a flawed process that lacked transparency.»

(Most Christians are not prepared to go there, of course, and neither am I.) But it is hard to argue for a flawed Bible based on the words and actions of a flawless Jesus.

You made that supposition based on your own interpretation (which is flawed) of morality.

Christian apologetics is a field of christian theology which aims to present a rational basis for the christian faith, defends the faith against objections and attempts to expose the flaws of other world views.

This author in my opinion deep inside is questioning her faith but like a security blanket to a child does not want to get rid of it and is looking for any explanation she can come up with to hold onto it even in the face of the reality that the text that faith is based upon is highly flawed and frankly quite silly.

Red Dwarf «Mistaken or flawed identification has assumed a newfound prominence in recent years: It's been cited as a factor in nearly 78 percent of the nation's first 130 convictions later overturned by DNA testing, according to the New York - based Innocence Project, which works to free the wrongly convicted.

«Mistaken or flawed identification has assumed a newfound prominence in recent years: It's been cited as a factor in nearly 78 percent of the nation's first 130 convictions later overturned by DNA testing, according to the New York - based Innocence Project, which works to free the wrongly convicted.

The ad is based on an increasingly flawed premise that has misinformed large portions of several generations of well - intentioned evangelicals: We are in a clearly defined culture war.

I would suggest to you, sincerely, that you not throw away the chance to know God in an intimate and personal way and to have eternal life, on the basis of your deeply flawed logic.

A. since sports is so awesome here and people love it, and it's somehow based off of flaws that people ultimately will be better than another in some way.

As such your methods of prayer, which are based on these flawed conceptions, are also inherently flawed.

A fatally flawed way of thinking based on emotion can't lead to anything good.

Scientific, philosophical, and religious thoughts, are all flawed with our limited human perceptions based on our own human experiences and the evolution of those thoughts over time.

On Friday, the leaders of the American nuns whom the Vatican had criticized said the Holy See's report was «based on unsubstantiated accusations and (was) the result of a flawed process that lacked transparency» and that the report had «caused scandal and pain throughout the church community.»