Sentences with phrase «doubt on that assertion»

She casts doubt on the assertion that there is an intrinsic affinity between certain religious ideas and political orientations by showing how similar ideas lead to different outcomes in different settings.

But if a populous, neighbouring advanced industrialised country (that one report said had the best health system in the world) where HB is rare has a higher mortality rate, that does cast doubt on the assertion (or implication) that the disparity can be blamed on midwifery / HB.

The U-M research, using DoD data, casts doubt on that assertion.

As noted on Ars Technica, both Boeing and SpaceX have expressed confidence that uncrewed test flights would begin before the close of this year (2018), according to the Ars Technica report, a U.S. House Subcommittee on Space hearing cast doubt on these assertions.

Ofsted's report says that Dame Rachel told them she had not passed on any of the information from the email - and the investigating team found nothing that would «cast doubt on this assertion».

Conservative ministers frequently claim to have improved access to high - performing schools since they entered government in 2010, but the EPI's latest research casts doubt on this assertion.

I then pointed out that records of extreme weather events going back many centuries cast doubt on your assertion.

The context of the second excerpt shows the judge was casting doubt on the assertions that law's process of reasoning was allowed to be irrational, illogical, in the commonly understood meaning of those terms.

In short, the methods of Wright have cast doubt on his assertions — even in Matonis and Andresen, who at one time or another had been totally convinced by Wright.

Not exact matches

But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion can not be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense.

Rather than assuming and stating as fact that BC is dogmatic in his assertions because he secretly harbors doubts which he is attempting to either drown out by increasing his volume or find answers for by remaining on this site, NP asks him if that might be the case.

A moment's reflection on the history of Judaism will lead to doubt about Fowden's assertion.

I beg to take exception on some commentator's assertions as follows: I strongly doubt that Wenger condones his players» poor performances.

The general secretary of POA, the trade union for prisoner workers, insisted staff had never had a problem dealing with the parcels being sent in to jails, casting doubt on Graylings assertion that it would not be «secure or practical» to allow parcels to be sent to prisoners.

In a situation where the state has failed and armed groups proliferate, events on the ground could escalate in such a way, which no doubt is one of the factors prompting the speedy assertion of Russian military control in Crimea.

Despite Cameron's assertions to the contrary, there can be little doubt that he'll go if he loses the vote on June 23: his credibility would be shot and his party would in all probability give him the push even if he doesn't jump.

There is no doubt that the 2015 study, led by Jay Zwally, a glaciologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, flew in the face of previous research and even assertions made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

New figures have cast further doubt on the government's assertion that becoming an academy improves schools — revealing inadequate schools have more chance of improving by staying under local authority control.

«I doubt, Mr Speaker, that the Cornish tourist industry will be best pleased by my honourable friend's assertion that tourism in Cornwall is dependent on truanting children for its survival.»

So, just as in the law we have two criminal procedures: criminal law where the requirement is «proof beyond reasonable doubt» and civil law «on the balance of probabilities», I personally think it is time we had Science (proof by experiment, the null hypothesis — proof beyond all reasonable doubt) and «science» (soft science)... where assertions are made using rigorous assessment of the data and the application of known scientific principles, but assertions have to be made which can not be subject to the full rigours of the scientific methodology.

On issues ranging from Ebola to climate change, their impulse is often to re-state their case in ever - more - vigorous terms, forcefully noting that there is no serious doubt about their assertions.

In stark contrast to the often repeated assertion that the science of climate change is «settled,» significant new peer - reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human - caused global warming.

The role of «traditional» departures: As previously noted here, Rita suggests the continued validity of «traditional» departure analysis after Booker, and thus casts serious doubt on the Seventh Circuit's repeated assertion that departures are obsolete after Booker.

Back on the point of unreferenced reasonability, their assertion is that there is no doubt that the combination of these deficiencies places the data at risk.

However, if any of the foregoing communications took place in an unsecure physical environment, like a Go Train or a Starbucks, then the lawyer's conduct was inappropriate (I doubt that amounts to a waiver of privilege if intercepted by a law enforcement regime, though (see http://www.canlii.org/eliisa/highlight.do?text=loss+of+privilege&language=en&searchTitle=Search+all+CanLII+Databases&path=/en/bc/bcsc/doc/1998/1998canlii6613/1998canlii6613.html on inadvertent disclosure), and I don't agree with Prof. Dodek's assertions on that point).

«Contrary to the prime minister's assertion on CFRB last week that he ordered re-payment because Senate expense rules were, in his words «beyond the shadow of a doubt broken»; he had my legal bills paid fully,» Duffy said as senators listened in stunned silence.