Sentences with phrase «circumstantial evidence at»

There are people sitting in jail right now despite having circumstantial evidence at best.

Considering that the bible was cobbled together hundreds of years after the alleged events, that makes it circumstantial evidence at best.

Not exact matches

(The evidence suggesting a link between those who published the reports and those who shorted Silvercorp stock is at best circumstantial.)

There is now considerable circumstantial evidence suggesting that the primary goal of many central bankers, despite their continued professions of fealty to inflation targeting, has become avoiding recession at all cost.

At this point, the circumstantial evidence that we had talked to the boy who was arrested began to mount up.

This evidence is entirely circumstantial, and there's an innocent explanation for the traffic patterns that Foer identified: that the Trump Organization used an email marketing service to send out promotional emails about Trump's hotels, and some of these emails went to Alfa Bank — perhaps because Alfa Bank employees have stayed at Trump hotels.

As we have seen, the story about the women at the tomb, on the showing of the authors themselves, circumstantial as it is, remains inconclusive as evidence apart from further verification.

It is not at all unusual for historians to have to content themselves with unobjective accounts of an event and to make use of circumstantial evidence to confirm or disprove these accounts.

The long - awaited Ted Wells report is heavy on circumstantial evidence that Patriots employees, at the behest of Tom Brady, purposefully deflated footballs before the AFC title game.

There's circumstantial evidence it had some impact but they can't measure that at all.

And at Silver's retrial, prosecutors say all the activities that may no longer be official acts — meetings with lobbyists, helping Taub set up a mesothelioma charity race and find jobs for his kids, using official letterhead to oppose a methadone clinic near a Glenwood property — can still be put before the jury as «circumstantial evidence.»

«Although [the evidence] is largely circumstantial, it's a start for sure,» says Tony Schountz, an immunologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins who studies hantaviruses in bats.

Although nanobacteria may not cause kidney stone disease, Coe notes additional circumstantial evidence: At least four teams have reported tiny spherical deposits in the calcified plaques that often appear in the kidneys of patients who suffer from kidney stones.

At this point the evidence remains circumstantial, and the whole concept is still a fairly speculative hypothesis.

Nevertheless, he says, at this point the evidence that the dolphin - sized Janjucetus was a suction feeder is only circumstantial.

Yet astronomers have only circumstantial evidence that they lie hidden at the heart of every large galaxy in the universe.

«I believe that the government will be able to show at trial direct evidence that Apple knowingly participated in and facilitated a conspiracy to raise prices of ebooks, and that the circumstantial evidence in this case, including the terms of the agreements, will confirm that,» Cote said, according to published reports.

We understand that you berated our nominator at some length following the article for utilising anecdotal and circumstantial evidence, even though such data - for example allegorical paintings by Breughel - are frequently used by scientists such as Phil Jones and Professor Brian Fagan to usefully illustrate the deterioration in the climate in the 16th century.

To my mind the possibility, which certainly has a great deal of at least circumstantial evidence behind it, that humans are causing global warming is enough to suggest that we should cease the behaviors that have the potential of destroying our planet.

Quite late to this party, but of note to me was how strongly W. supported his views with this: «Circumstantial evidence is evidence that relies on an inference to connect it to a conclusion of fact — like a fingerprint at the scene of a crime.

While it appears that there's at least a circumstantial case of politically motivated firings, the subcommittee will need to gather more evidence to make these charges stick.

The British Columbia Court of Appeal overturned the guilty verdict of Bradshaw from the lower court as it deemed that the re-enactment was hearsay evidence that did not demonstrate circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness necessary to meet the threshold reliability test (Bradshaw at para 32).

The Crown's case at trial was based entirely on circumstantial evidence — Cst.

[42] Even though the presumption was engaged, the trial judge was obliged to examine the totality of the evidence, both direct and circumstantial, for the purpose of determining, if possible, Mr. Fuller's actual intention at the time he executed the 2002 transfer.

McLachlin C.J.C. explained that an assessment of the sufficiency of such circumstantial evidence necessarily involves a limited weighing of the evidence to determine whether the evidence is reasonably capable of supporting the inferences the Crown will be seeking at trial, although this weighing process at a preliminary inquiry excludes any credibility assessments or consideration of whether the inferences will in fact be drawn.

You could also introduce other circumstantial evidence like that other people only saw the defendant at another location.

The majority stated at para 38 that the inference of causation can be made through merely circumstantial evidence, meaning the use of «positive evidence» from the Board's policy can include inconclusive or even contrary expert evidence.

Energous is the company behind WattUp, an emerging wireless charging technology that uses radio frequencies to charge devices from up to 15 feet away.Though there's no concrete proof of a relationship between Energous and Apple, a new research report from Louis Basenese of Disruptive Tech Research highlights a large pool of circumstantial evidence pointing towards a potential partnership, so it's worth taking a look at Energous's technology, both in that context and as an example of the wireless charging techniques that are currently being pursued by tech companies.Basenese posits

Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in time.