Sentences with phrase «century smoking gun»

Instead, he uncovered a 21st century smoking gun: orders to commit murder.

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But when the first analyses of past ocean heat content changes appeared around the turn of the century they were rightly labelled «the smoking gun».

As for the alleged irrefutable evidence that people caused the last century's CO2 increase, the «smoking gun» invoked by one of my critics, Dr. Michael Mann, and his fellow fearmongers at realclimate.com, the claim is based on the idea that the normal ratio of heavy to light carbon — that is, the carbon - 13 isotope to the lighter carbon - 12 isotope, is roughly 1 to 90 in the atmosphere, but in plants there's a 2 percent lower C13 / C12 ratio.

The Commonwealth had created a new felony modeled on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, an obscure 20th - century federal law.15 It criminalized unauthorized use of any computer, an admittedly vague framing that in its federal incarnation had been interpreted to include activities as far - reaching as violating a website's terms of service.16 The device scanned a passenger's online personas for signs of criminal activity, and when it couldn't find a smoking gun (such as pictures of contraband or discussion of criminal activity), the CFAA gave Baley additional bites at the apple.17 Lying about your height in a dating profile was often a violation of a site's terms.