Sentences with phrase «does bolster the case»

Alan Stern, head of the New Horizons mission, says the presence of moons should not be a criterion for deciding if an object is a planet, but concedes that «in the public's eyes it does bolster the case that Pluto is a planet».

In an email interview with Newsweek, lead author Gaël Choblet, from the French National Center for Scientific Research, said that while he can not speculate on the presence of alien life on Enceladus, their timescale for hydrothermal activity does bolster the case that microbial life could emerge.

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It doesn't take much to see how that could have led to rules that'd apply the same standards across the board — only, in that case, it would've had the side effect of bolstering online privacy on all sides.

Perhaps the most compelling case for why businesses need to be immediately concerned with developing a content strategy to bolster their customer engagement (assuming they do not already have one) is a statistic offered by a recent study by the White House Office of Consumer Affairs.

Quoting Newton doesn't bolster your case, he was a genius and a nut case, neither of which qualifies him as an expert witness.

In any case, when an atheist blames god for all the horrible things in the world, it's to bolster an argument that the christian god (or any other man made god for that matter) does not exist or else he wouldn't have allowed these things to happen.

They did this, Ehrman claims, to bolster their case for orthodoxy in the face of challenges from heretical groups such as the Adoptionists, the Separationists and the Docetics.

She does, however, advance another argument to bolster her case - the need to balance consumers» interests with that of «an innovative food industry».

It doesn't sound as though that is the case, with Tevez vehemently ruling out such a move, which will in turn now force Conte to look elsewhere as he continues to search for players to bolster his squad.

Yesterday's YouGov poll bolstered his case massively as the only Labour candidate who can topple Boris Johnson, and at this stage I don't see anyone else doing that.

FBI agents and prosecutors in New York believe the video bolstered their case that nothing was done wrong while Justice Department prosecutors believe the video was proof of wrongdoing on the officer's part.

The final budget deal, as expected, did not include a range of non-fiscal matters, including extending the statute of limitations in child abuse cases, school safety measures, gun control, relaxing certain criminal bail requirements and any bolstering of ethics and campaign finance laws in reaction to what has become an annual parade of Albany corruption cases, including two major trials this year of people with close ties to Cuomo.

Laufer's interpretation — offered three weeks before de Blasio's fundraising efforts received public scrutiny in a Daily News article — could bolster the mayor's case that everything was being done by the book, at least as far as he had been advised.

«It's just surreal,» said Jaron Benjamin a week after the conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and on the day of closing arguments in the federal corruption case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, knowing that those cases may have been bolstered by work he did years ago in the fight to strengthen the state's rent laws.

Although the new work doesn't settle the issue, it bolsters the case that early alcohol use can cause lasting changes in behavior.

What you do then is come out with a statement, avowing that your main priorities are kids, parents and their neighborhoods, and bolster your case by spouting a bunch of good - sounding half - truths in an attempt to make yourself sound believable.

-- but it doesn't exactly bolster the Colorado's case for being the modern incarnation of the sensible workaday pickups of yore unless you track down one of the poverty - spec WT trim packages.

Most authors don't do this, though such a filing can help bolster your case if you ever find a need to press legal action or seek damages against an infringer.

«Yes, You Can Time the Market» doesn't try to bolster market timing's case.

Without the unwavering support of third party developers to bolster the great Nintendo - created lineup, I don't believe this would have been the case.

One does not sell off great works of art to meet operating expenses, as Brandeis University is doing with the entire Rose Museum — or, in this case, to bolster the Academy's research libraries.

And as the graph used by the Independent to bolster its case (supplied by CRU, apparently) demonstrates, the Nature study does absolutely nothing to address that concern:

«More needs to be done — and more will be done to continuously improve the safety of deepwater drilling and to bolster the ability of the government and industry to respond in the case of a major blowout.

A related study by a separate team this week in the journal Science bolsters Tolstoy's case by showing similar long - term patterns of submarine volcanism in an Antarctic region Tolstoy did not study.

They're decided they don't like nuclear and peddle any old simplistic nonsense they consider will bolster their case in populist, repetitive fashion.

Witnesses are incredibly important in both bolstering a plaintiff's case and, perhaps more importantly, in letting the insurance company know that the arguments they use to reject or limit coverage will be met with contradictory assertions from neutral third parties: people who happened to be at the scene of the accident but who do not have a financial interest in the case one way or the other.

A social worker has appeared before a professional disciplinary panel after she was found by a judge to have fabricated evidence to bolster the case for removing a child from the mother's care and then lied in court about having done so.

The upshot of all of this upheaval is that legal work has become disaggregated, with significantly bolstered in - house teams acting as de facto project managers to a host of legal and resource providers, with the traditional law firm just one constituent part — albeit, in many cases, the one doing the most complex, more profitable work.

If the owner doesn't respond well or at all, The Humane Society suggests documenting what you see with details like date, time, location, and animal type and taking a video or snapping some pictures to help bolster your case.

• Conversely, don't embellish or exaggerate facts or occurrences to help bolster your case.