Sentences with phrase «by facts on the ground»

A judgment grounded in anxiety, anywhere on the theological spectrum, does not want to be disturbed or informed by facts on the ground.

I have then pointed out to you that we will be able to check out your Figure 7 long before year 2100, and by 2030 (when most of us should still be around) we will either have 0.6 C warming above today or your projection («scuse me, extrapolation) will have been falsified by the facts on the ground.

Again, indirect land use change is based on false assumptions and twisted computer modeling that is not supported by the facts on the ground or even realistic projections.

These false assumptions were caused when CARB deliberately embraced the unproven indirect land use theory, which is not supported by the facts on the ground.

Yes, the «skeptics» who deny the IPCC «most» attribution are being pushed further into greenhouse dragonslayer territory by these facts on the ground, but they need to run the numbers for themselves, and check what they are saying before reflexively denying the next IPCC attribution statement.

Not exact matches

Dissemination areas don't necessarily reflect the facts on the ground when it comes to how neighbourhoods are understood by the people who live there; these artificial boundaries can't encompass the spirit and character that animates a great neighbourhood — but they can highlight the areas where wealth is most concentrated.

That's despite the fact premiers Christy Clark and Alison Redford, in a backgrounder to their recent agreement on the ground rules for building pipelines, warned that oil may end up crossing B.C. by train en route to Asia regardless of whether the Northern Gateway or Trans - Mountain Expansion projects go ahead.

These developments include major data privacy breaches such as the Equifax leak, the troubling revelations about the use of personal data assembled by Facebook for marketing and political manipulation, and the introduction of the European Union's General Data Privacy Regulations, which establish new facts on the ground regarding compliance for globally active companies.

(These facts were reported by agencies on the ground in Iraq for several years and then published in an important 2002 UNICEF report) I have nothing but contempt an disgust for this man and I believe that he should be ashamed for his part in that crime.

We still need to observe the facts of the conditions on the ground and try to make the best decisions for going forward — and we can't have our options frozen (and fixed) by exactly what was written down be people from long ago.

When speaking of something language also speaks of itself, pointing to its ground which is taken away from it, and by this very fact given: this is signified when we say «God» even though we do not mean by this the same as language as a whole, but the ground on which it rests.

The decision between these two possibilities is complicated by the fact that whereas there can be little question that Jesus used the phrase «son of man,» (The ground for this assurance is not merely the Gospel testimony that Jesus used the phrase; it is rather that it appears so often on his lips and nowhere else.

If ever so many thousands of years have intervened, if the fact came to entail ever so many consequences, it does not on that account become more necessary (and the consequences themselves, from an ultimate point of view, are only relatively necessary, since they derive from the freely effecting cause); to say nothing of the topsy - turvy notion that the fact might become necessary by reason of the consequences, the consequences being wont to seek their ground in something else, and not to constitute a ground for that of which they are the consequences.

But the fact that it has happened is on the other hand the ground of an uncertainty, by which the apprehension will always be prevented from assimilating the past as if it had been thus from all eternity.

That makes him a worthy candidate to fill in at LW position - usually occupied by Sanchez whom I will love to see play from the right this time around for the fact that his relentless pressing and hassling will contribute to immensely limiting the supply channel (on the ground especially) to Hazard.

The Gunners have emphasised their improvement by beating both Manchester clubs on their home ground, but there is still one monkey on Wenger's back — the fact that he has never beaten Jose Mourinho in twelve meetings.

Coquelin had more interceptions, more tackles won, more airiel duels (I'm even shocked at that one), More ground one on one duels and coquelin played 300 less minutes than him, the only thing he beat him on was the fact that he had more assists 3 and more goals 2 that's not really something to be impressed by.

The French striker moved to North London this summer in a club record # 52.7 Million deal, and his the ground running with four goals in his opening seven outings, but those numbers will be boosted by the fact he has completed the full 90 minutes on only one occasion.

He faces a bit of a short - term issue with the fact that his offensive personnel has to basically forget everything it has been taught for the last 12 months and shift back to more of a grind - it - out mentality, but lord knows the players on hand were more likely to have been recruited by Dave Wannstedt to play this type of ball than whatever Todd Graham was attempting to do.

Mark Hughes reveals that his players who have come from other countries are taken aback by the fact that they are supposed to be at the practice ground on 25th of December as well in England, a day when the entire world has a break from work.

While my petition focused on the use of pink slime in school food, I feel strongly that the media firestorm we created and the overwhelming response to the petition was animated by another concern as well: many Americans were learning for the first time about this substance and the fact that it's in, reportedly, 70 % of our ground beef without any sort of labeling for those who wish to avoid it.

Politics in Britain (and one could argue globally) has become dominated by neoliberal ideas, the so called «centre ground» is in fact neoliberalism, and conservatives tend to coalesce on the right side of this, Labour the left.

As Israel lurches to the right its desire for peace reduces by the day and its pursuit of policies of creating facts on the ground including the construction of more settlements increases.

Contrary to assertion by some chiefs, mostly of the New Patriotic Party stock that, twice failed flag bearer of the biggest opposition party would be third time lucky in the upcoming November polls, facts on the ground show otherwise.

«This is because the incumbent has an organisation on the ground by reason of the fact that he is the incumbent.

Steven E. de Souza (48 Hrs., Street Fighter) returns as co-screenwriter to give these characters depth and dimension, such that, even when all hold on realism is lost, the action stays grounded by the fact that we like these personalities.

The fact that these sessions are delivered by teachers who are experts in computing has had a real impact on the pupils» experience of the computing curriculum; they are covering a lot more ground now, which would ordinarily be difficult within ourschool setting.

The power steering has failed as noted by the huge puddle of power steering fluid on the ground in front of my house and the fact the tow truck driver saying this was his 6th Caravan in the last 4 weeks with the same problem.

Deeply grounded in historical fact but refracted through a powerful imagination, Landfalls follows the exploits and heartbreaks not only of the men on the ships but also of the people affected by the voyage - natives and other Europeans the explorers encountered, loved ones left waiting at home, and those who survived and remembered the expedition later.

Despite the fact that these fully guided Guatemala tours are offered at a low all inclusive price, and considered by many to be a cheap holiday to Guatemala, Caravan delivers on incredible value; all itinerary meals, first class accommodations, ground transportation, and even gratuities are included.

I think the future of travel writing is on much firmer ground if it's justified by the simple fact that people and places are never really the same and therefore always worth writing about, which I think is absolutely true.

The economy appears to be well - balanced, though, with new weapons and gang members costing quite a bit, although the fact that missions can be replayed as much as you want does mean that money can be acquired a little too easily by players all too willing to grind away on the first batch of heists.

What makes Greed Corp unique, however, is that the gameplay centers around the fact that the ground tiles you stand on are destroyed by harvesting for resources.

Facts on the Ground, curated by Amy Owen, presents four projects by Bernard Khoury, Sarah Oppenheimer, Sean Snyder, and the Spatial Information Design Lab, that retool social, political, and historical information systems of the city.

A gouache on panel of three shimmying figures, each a sinuous patchwork of color given shape by a declaratory blue ground, the picture bears an uncanny resemblance, 40 - some years before the fact, to the artist's signature melding of abstract structures and ecstatic figuration.

BTW — as predicted by some comments in this post: several outlets in the media are taking alarmist positions (not grounded in fact) on the change in Atlantic circulation.

This is largely due to the fact that in most ecosystems the DOM formed by microbes is present along with large quantities derived from plants; think leaves decomposing on the ground.

Nothing explains this unusually cold and snowy weather more than the fact that there was snow on the ground for the first 932 miles of the trip, only when we dropped into a long mountain valley with an altitude that was less than 500m (1600ft) was there not snow by the road.

In fact, a few years ago, a battery the size of a trailer installed next to a wind turbine on Hawaà ¯ to store its intermittent energy caught fire by itself and burned to the ground.

Section thirteen of the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA) bans the electronic transmission of material that is deemed «likely to expose persons to hatred or contempt by reason of the fact that those persons are identifiable on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination.»

To summarize though, the section prohibits the communication of messages that are likely to expose a person to hatred or contempt, by reason of the fact that the persons targeted are identifiable on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination such as race, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, religion, and so on.

This applies both where that advice is limited in time, eg until after a criminal defence statement has been filed and served and, worse still, the advice is given not to make such a response at all; • (f) the date on which a party to care proceedings is to file and serve a criminal defence statement in linked criminal proceedings is wholly irrelevant to the court's determination of the date on which that party should file and serve a response to threshold and / or to file and serve a narrative statement in the care proceedings; • (g) the mere fact that a party is ordered to file and serve a response to threshold and / or to file and serve a narrative statement before the date a criminal defence statement is to be filed and served in criminal proceedings is not a ground for failing to comply with the former order; • (h) it [is not] a ground for an application to extend the time for compliance with an order to file and serve a response to threshold and / or to file and serve a narrative statement until a date after the criminal defence statement has been filed and served; and • (i) any issue about alleged prejudice to a defendant in criminal proceedings based on him being required to file and serve a response to threshold and / or to file and serve a narrative statement before the date of a criminal defence statement is to be filed and served, or at all, only arises and is only potentially relevant if and when an application is made by the police and / or a co-accused for statements and documents filed in the family proceedings to be disclosed into linked criminal proceedings [see Re C (A Minor)(Care Proceedings: Disclosure)[1997] Fam 76, [1997] 2 WLR 322, sub nom Re EC (Disclosure of Material)[1996] 2 FLR 725, CA].

Essentially, the section prohibits the communication of messages that are likely to expose a person to hatred or contempt, by reason of the fact that the persons targeted are identifiable on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination such as race, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, religion, and so on.

«What is particularly concerning is the uncontested fact that Alberta and AUPE had come to meaningful agreements on certain issues during collective bargaining, but rather than respecting those points of common ground Alberta has by legislation «wiped the slate clean» when it unilaterally imposed all terms from the 2011 Collective Agreement,» the judge said.

(1) It is a discriminatory practice for a person or a group of persons acting in concert to communicate telephonically or to cause to be so communicated, repeatedly, in whole or in part by means of the facilities of a telecommunication undertaking within the legislative authority of Parliament, any matter that is likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt by reason of the fact that that person or those persons are identifiable on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination.

Hate messages - It is a discriminatory practice for a person or a group of persons acting in concert to communicate telephonically or to cause to be so communicated, repeatedly, in whole or in part by means of the facilities of a telecommunication undertaking within the legislative authority of Parliament, any matter that is likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt by reason of the fact that that person or those persons are identifiable on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination.

We use this term as the common reference for messages that, within the meaning of the Act are «likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt by reason of the fact that that person or those persons are identifiable on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination».

[155] Based on our review of the documents downloaded from the Zundelsite, and the expert evidence of Professors Prideaux and Schweitzer, we find that the material contained in Exhibit HR - 2 is likely to expose a person or group of persons to hatred or contempt by reason of the fact that those persons are identifiable on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination.

Are the materials contained on the Zundelsite likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt by reason of the fact that that person or those persons are identifiable on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination?

The prevention of harm caused by hate propaganda is promoted by s. 13 (1) in prohibiting repeated telephonic communications of messages likely to expose individuals to hatred or contempt by reason of the fact that those individuals are identifiable on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination.