Sentences with phrase «confidence for several»

Still, we can speculate about causes with varying degrees of confidence for several key aspects of our findings.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Tom Wynn, director of affluent research at Spectrem, provided several factors for the increased confidence: the steady improvement in job growth, the steady increase in the major stock market indices since the spring, and a decrease in political ambiguity with the election season over, which has an effect on at least some people's outlook.

Several Tribune shareholders have registered their disapproval of Ferro and their lack of confidence in his strategy for rebuilding the chain.

To give you confidence in a long - term distribution strategy, several factors must be considered to solve for the «magic number» needed to support your lifestyle including: sequence of returns, volatility, portfolio withdrawals, taxes, life expectancy, inflation, and more.

Not until I had been back in the U.S. for several months did it dawn on me that I had experienced a profound sense of serenity in these people and, through them, had glimpsed my own confidence and inner strength, elusive through much of my life as a white christian in the U.S.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

As the overall winner and several prizes in the festival in past years, she has reasons for her confidence.

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

Danny's confidence at Man U must have been shot a bit so to ask him at 23 to lead the attack for several months is a big ask.

LaFell, for his part, had to inspire Brady's confidence in him by snagging several of his passes out of the air that weren't exactly right on target.

For several weeks, Liverpool's results have not quite reflected their performances, and even I was beginning to wonder whether persisting with the same approach would be the best route to a confidence - restoring win, after some disappointing results.

The return of club record signing to the Arsenal squad as well as the first team in tomorrow tie would bring to the minds of the Arsenal team as well as the fans «confidence» as the midfield star has been away for several weeks.

«United won two major trophies last season in league cup and european league on their way back to Champions League and several high profile signings have put some confidence back in United fans as they prepare themselves for the big guns next season.

Thanks to my new found confidence, on day 6 I fed Alex in public for the first time (and have done several times since) and although he still prefers to munch on his hands for a good 5 minutes before latching on, by the time the first week was over things were so much better on the feeding front.

In fact working out postpartum and while breastfeeding has several benefits including: decrease in postpartum depression, increased strength and healing from effects of pregnancy and giving birth, improved insulin response, and an overall increase in confidence for the mother.

Mercedes has been working with families for several years, helping them to achieve results in developing dynamic parent / child relationships, ending the shame around parenting and giving parents the confidence to raise healthy children in today's world.

If your child has been walking for several weeks or even months, her confidence and steadiness have probably grown with each day.

Several senior Democrats said they believe that Cuomo, who has been warring with de Blasio for more than two years, has only about three more months before it's too late to find a candidate with a real chance of defeating de Blasio, who polls show has lost the confidence of a majority of voters.

It's a national security issue — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:42 We are confident these priorities will not only provide jobs but will improve the security of Ghanaians — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:41 Our job creation agenda will be driven by investment in human capital — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:40 The broad agenda for next year is to translate the stability into shared growth - Ken Ofori - Atta 10:33 We have restored macro stability and renewed confidence in the economy — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:32 We have achieved in one year, what seemed impossible to achieve in eight years — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:31 We have provided stable electricity supply — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:31 I am glad to report that we are on course to end the year with the fiscal deficit of 6.5 % — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:30 We are happy to note that our policies are yielding results that have brought back smiles to several Ghanaians — Ken Ofori Atta 10:29 We resolve to be fiscally discipline — Ken Ofori Atta 10:29 I'm happy to note that we have turned the economy around — Ken Ofori Atta 10:28 When I presented the budget in March, I indicated our commitment to take strategic steps to fix the challenges facing the economy and restore hope to Ghanaians — Ken Ofori Atta 10:25 I thank the august House for all the support that has brought us so far — Ken Ofori Atta 10:24 Speaker of Parliament invites the Finance Minister to present the 2018 budget

«But after listening to the governor crow about this for several years, it's a gut punch to the public's confidence at its government's ability to manage Albany.»

At his Center for Open Science, launched in January, he is coordinating several initiatives to make psychology more transparent and reliable — initiatives that could both restore confidence to his beleaguered field and influence similar efforts in other sciences.

To increase scientists» confidence, the result must be verified by other experiments and additional tests, says theoretical cosmologist Matias Zaldarriaga of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. Several other efforts to detect the signal are already under way.

A spokeswoman for U.S. - owned GE Australia & New Zealand, which has stakes in several renewable energy projects, said further investment «will only occur once investor confidence in the policy environment is restored.

«Having been a partner with Roche for several years, we have every confidence that the combination of our own expertise and Roche's considerable capabilities in clinical development, biomarkers and diagnostics will help us maximize the potential for this programme,» commented Stuart W. Peltz, Ph.D., President and CEO of PTC.

It took a lot of wrestling with my confidence and self - esteem, but after several years of experimentation in college, then several more years wasted trying to achieve a «polished, professional look» for my first job, I finally decided to bin my box of goodies and start leaving the house barefaced.

As she lost the weight and gained confidence, she transformed several key relationships at work that had been holding her back for years.

A number of online sites improve a confidence that the person looking will look for the love of their life on the online service's site if they become a member of for at least eight several months or they will give you eight various months free participant to their web page.

However, the authors of the review state that this data was not reported well enough to be taken in total confidence even though the findings do suggest «several potential benefits» for students.

Stanford education professor Linda Darling - Hammond and several colleagues, for instance, once surveyed 3,000 beginning teachers in New York City to examine the relationship between their accounts of their preparation program and their confidence in their readiness for teaching.

To be fair, using the new adaptive testing format (I've used it in technical exams for computer programming and networking) will take several years before there's any real confidence that the adaptive testing can be compared to standard test scores.

The state overturned a teacher license policy that tied test scores to advancing professionally and delayed a move to Common Core - aligned state testing... More than 50 superintendents had already publicly questioned his leadership, several teachers unions expressed «no confidence» even after [other] accolades; and most recently a group of 15 Republicans last summer called for his resignation.»

According to Coulter several specific teacher characteristics determine their ability to teach with GST, including in - depth knowledge about the topics, confidence in data - informed, model - based reasoning, ability to guide student inquiry, and curiosity and passion for further learning.

The biggest thing that has changed for me over the course of the last several years is my confidence that ETFs are the best solution for the majority of investors.

I have a large fenced yard for the dogs to run and play in with several pieces of full - sized agility equipment for dogs to explore and build their confidence on.

«However, given the temporary nature of the current resolution, confidence is likely to remain volatile for the next several months.»

This and the release of several titles in the coming months bolstered the company's confidence for the rest of the year.

Even with this drawback in the AR4 conclusions and confidence level, somehow what was left was judged to hinge on the unpublished Wahl / Amman papers, one of which was having difficulty surviving peer review in GRL for a period of several years, and was finally pushed through quickly by Steve Schneider in Climate Change.

I pointed this out a few years ago, after the 2007 low, and stated with a high degree of confidence that we wouldn't have a new record low for several more years.

How can anybody have much confidence in the so called «published projections» for the ice free state between 2037 and 2100, given that these projections have been wrong every single time they have been made over the last decade or more; they missed the collapse in area in 2007 and they also missed the exponentially declining behavior over the last several decades.

African farmers have developed several adaptation options to cope with current climate variability, but such adaptations may not be sufficient for future changes of climate (high confidence).

There is very high confidence that maximum global mean sea level during the last interglacial period (~ 129 to 116 ka) was, for several thousand years, at least 5 m higher than present and high confidence that it did not exceed 10 m above present, implying substantial contributions from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.

If IPCC models can not even predict the temperature of the next decade, why are we to put any confidence whatsoever in their ability to project temperatures for the next several decades — or even century?

Scientists, statisticians and mathematicians have several terms for this concept, such as «precision», «margin of error» or «confidence interval».

And that requires us to specify — in this particular Atlanta suburb, it's going to get warmer for the next several hours, get cooler for the next several weeks (though with lots of «noise,» and correspondingly low confidence.)

«Accounting for multiple sources of uncertainty, a composite of several OHCA curves using different XBT bias corrections still yields a statistically significant linear warming trend for 1993 — 2008 of 0.64 W m - 2 (calculated for the Earth's entire surface area), with a 90 - per - cent confidence interval of 0.53 — 0.75 W m - 2.»

This implies, with medium confidence, that a large part of the WAIS will be eventually lost if the atmospheric CO2 concentration stays within, or above, the range of 350 — 450 ppm for several millennia.

With the upset caused bird charity RSPB Scotland's long - running legal challenge against 2.3 GW of wind projects off Scotland now seemingly over, an air of renewed confidence is returning to the industry with a pipeline of technologically diverse projects under construction, and several more looking to enter the UK's 2019 contract - for - difference auction.

Respondent's conduct, which resulted in the unjustified detention of the defendants for several hours and the incarceration of 14 defendants in the County Jail, caused irreparable damage to public confidence in the fair and proper administration of justice in his court....

Buoyed by a surge in transactional activity and a stronger economic outlook, business confidence among partners at the top law firms is at its highest point for several years.