Sentences with phrase «by casting doubt»

The true - crime miniseries has caused a sensation by casting doubt on the guilt of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach in Wisconsin.

Supposedly Big Oil is seeking to maximize its profits by casting doubt on the CAGW message.

That is to say that anyone challenging any form of assertion can only go about challenging that claim by casting doubt over it.

[6] The tobacco industry was threatened by this designation and worked to discredit EPA and neutralize the report by casting doubt on EPA's conclusions.

With the IPCC increasingly in the spotlight, the denialists can trivialize the entire environmental crisis simply by casting doubt on the scientific consensus on global warming.

These organizations and their industry allies are also advantaged by virtually unanimous opposition to cap and trade among Republican members of Congress, with many Republican leaders echoing the communication strategy of conservative groups by casting doubt on climate science and exaggerating the costs of action.

Your motive was to play the man, and not the (published) ball, and to cast aspersions upon that ball by casting doubt on the men.

By casting doubt on the science, the need for behavior change is blunted — an approach the tobacco industry successfully employed throughout the 1980s and»90s to delay efforts to warn the public of smoking's dangers.

Success Academy C.E.O. Eva Moskowitz found a new and politically expedient way to attack Mayor Bill de Blasio over space issues for her charter schools on Thursday by casting doubt on his worthiness to maintain mayoral control of the city's schools, perhaps his administration's most urgent priority in Albany.

You do yourself and your readers a disservice by casting doubt on them in a day and age of deception when clear and confident Shepherds are needed to guide lost and confused sheep.

Here Bultmann attempts to avoid the conclusion that John is the shift of the aeons, by casting doubt upon the authenticity of the relevant sayings.

Not exact matches

Trump, however, cast doubt over the timing of his threatened strike on Syria on Thursday, by tweeting...

«China's economy is increasingly being driven by domestic demand and recent data cast doubt on a strong recovery,» Zhang Zhiwei, chief China economist at Nomura in Hong Kong, said.

The filing is among the largest ever by a specialty retailer and casts doubt over the future of the company's nearly 1,600 stores and 64,000 employees.

The investigations follow complaints filed by two former Theranos employees, casting even greater doubt upon the honesty and accuracy of the $ 9 billion blood test startup.

When the transaction became politicized during the 2016 campaign, some experts cast doubt over the legitimacy of the Clinton connection, as well as the national security threat posed by the deal.

But economists and professors cast doubt on whether tax policy changes were the driving force behind the move by a retailing giant that for years has stood as a lightning rod for criticism over low worker pay.

-LRB-...) Echoing her finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, Ms. Merkel cast doubt on Europe's ability to create a common watchdog for euro - zone banks by January.

Uber has been hit by an endless series of PR crises and an executive exodus in the months since Fowler's post, casting doubt on the $ 68 billion startup's leadership and momentum.

She casts doubt on the assertion that there is an intrinsic affinity between certain religious ideas and political orientations by showing how similar ideas lead to different outcomes in different settings.

We must begin, though, with a confession that the idea of a designing and controlling deity whose existence is rightly denied by many skeptics is also problematic from the point of view of a kenotic theology.If God is all - powerful in the sense of being able to manipulate things at will, then the facts of evolution do indeed cast doubt on the plausibility of theism.

The existence of fool's gold and the propensity of some people to be taken in by it do not, however, cast doubt on the existence of real gold, but rather on some people's faculties of discrimination.

He writes that though being family - oriented is an «image Chip and Joanna work hard to convey,» he casts doubt on how authentic those values really are to the couple: «I've always believed that we prove what we value most by where we choose to spend our time.

Via Tyler Cowen, a paper by Davide Cantoni casts some doubt on the efficacy of the Protestant Ethic: Many theories, most famously Max Weber's essay on the «Protestant ethic,» have hypothesized that Protestantism should have favored economic development.

In addition, Mark 11.23 has a saying, «Whoever says to this mountain «Be taken up and cast into the sea», and does not doubt... but believes... it will be done for him», set in the context of the dialogue about the meaning of the withered fig tree, and in this he is followed by Matthew (21.21).

So he postponed his baptism until he was on his deathbed and then by historic accident managed to be baptized by one later declared a heretic, thus casting shadows of doubt over his eternal destiny.

It is telling that they themselves appear uneasy about this conclusion and follow it with an observation that casts a fundamental doubt on it: «The procedure still introduces a third party by having someone else do the insemination.»

He has also cast doubt over his Stamford Bridge future by questioning Avram Grant's decision to cast him as a wide player.

Translation by Empire of the Kop suggests Liverpool could be in the running for the transfer of Vidal, though the popular LFC blog also casts doubts over the likelihood of the signing.

Giroud's lack of pace has cast doubts upon his ability to be effective in a counter-attacking side (by design) this season.

Pearson's future was recently cast into further doubt by a touchline brawl with Crystal Palace midfielder James McArthur, but after avoiding an FA charge and receiving the backing of the club's chairman, he appears to have been granted a stay of execution.

Harry Kane's place in the next England squad, which is set to be named later this month, has been cast into doubt by manager Roy Hodgson, who has seemingly backtracked over his previous comments regarding the Tottenham Hotspur striker.

According to El Gol Digital, as re-reported by The Express, it has cast further doubt over Ivan Rakitic's future at the Nou Camp, with Arsenal and Man Utd linked with a move for the 30 - year - old.

Jürgen Klopp has cast further doubt on Simon Mignolet's future at Liverpool by suggesting the Belgian will not be selected for Liverpool's Champions L -LRB-...)

I wasn't surprised by LAUSD's decision — reality shows need drama, and LAUSD no doubt suspected it would be portrayed in an unflattering light, just as many felt the Huntington, West Virginia «lunch ladies» in season one were unfairly cast as villains for merely serving menus dictated by others.

Researchers in Australia cast doubt on the familiar idea that women delay starting a family out of some misguided notion that they can have it all by waiting.

But Spitzer's own statement, obtained by NY1 and CapTon, seems to cast doubt on that, as it's decidedly past tense.

Although we do not undertake an exhaustive historical analysis today of the full scope of the Second Amendment, nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.

«Nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.»

But Senator Diane Savino, a member of a swing block, the Independent Democratic Conference, raised some objections, and cast doubt on whether the legislature would be ready to accept Cuomo's proposal for a the Tier VI benefits plan by the budget deadline.

Meanwhile, Astorino cast doubt on claims made by the governor that he was unaware his former top aide, Joe Percoco, was receiving consulting fees from companies with business before the state while he was managing Cuomo's re-election campaign.

The plebgate scandal has leapt back to the forefront of British politics after CCTV footage emerged earlier this week casting doubt on the account provided by Met officers on duty at the gated entrance to Downing Street.

Labour dramatically overturned the Scottish National party's (SNP) majority in the Dunfermline by - election last night, in a move which casts further doubt on Alex Salmond's ability to win the Scottish independence referendum next year.

The district originally selected the Trico building out of 11 proposals as its preferred location, but walked away from that plan late last year after delays cast doubt that the building would be ready by the target date.

Activists working to unseat IDC members also cast doubt on Cuomo's motives — and whether he'd push progressive priorities when the primary season had past — while arguing that seven years of «collaboration» with Republicans by IDC Democrats made them unacceptable going forward.

The planned January 8th polls have been cast into doubt by yesterday's assassination of former leader Benazir Bhutto after a political rally in Rawalpindi.

The outgoing Liberal Democrat party president, viewed by many as a potential future party leader, has cast further doubt over his party's ongoing commitment to shale gas extraction by repeating his concerns.

An internal City Hall memo obtained by The Daily News cast doubt on funding for a Brooklyn - Queens streetcar.

For a second year in a row, the PSC has deeply slashed the amount of renewable energy that utility companies are forced to buy under Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, casting further doubt on the governor's goal of having renewables supply 50 percent of the state's electricity by 2030, while reinforcing the program's status as primarily a bailout for money - losing upstate nuclear plants.

The bill was granted a second reading by 3444 votes to three, but several Tory MPs stood to cast doubts on the existence of climate change, raising concerns over the party's commitment to the environment.