Sentences with phrase «driven by evidence»

These types of cases are driven by the evidence that's available.

«Still, it would be good if we could move to policy driven by evidence, rather than by rich - country politics.»

«We must remain open to ideas, especially those that are driven by evidence,» says NEA President Dennis Van Roekel.

Driven by evidence that school suspensions disproportionately affect students of color and are ineffective at deterring inappropriate behavior, Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced new initiatives that will revamp discipline strategies in public schools across New York City.

Districts also must provide professional development that is driven by evidence and district needs, as well as evaluate the professional development to ensure its effectiveness.

Teachers and school leaders need to be driven by evidence of what is and isn't working.

Not exact matches

Emerging evidence makes it clear that the installation of software to defeat emissions controls was not the result of some rogue operation — it was driven by decisions made by the company's top engineers and approved at the highest levels.

Morneau added that Ottawa is also examining whether there is any evidence to support the notion held by some that foreign buyers are driving up home prices.

«At Rubicon we readily acknowledge that there remains work to be done to truly transform this industry into one that prioritizes recycling and sustainability in a way that's cost - effective and driven by technology, but our success and our competition's reaction to that success are evidence that we are on the right track.»

And his missives have proven to be a convenient source of evidence on the depths of Ontario's travails as the once mighty province slipped into have - not status driven by the McGuinty government's overspending and interference in the private sector.

Based on the best evidence I can find, the genesis of this trend and the advantages come from several evolutionary changes in the startup investment industry, and some innovations driven by the recent recession:

We are also driving capital efficiency without sacrificing the future as evidenced by our significant reduction in CapEx ahead of the Model 3 push.

As for our actual investment position, that's always driven by the objective evidence, and on that basis we are defensive.

Rather, both my opinion and our investment stance are driven by the objective evidence we have in hand about valuations and market action.

But that's because both are driven by the same information: the observable evidence regarding valuations and trend uniformity.

After acquiring six companies last year, Dover is clearly hungry for more, as evidenced by its projected 8 % and 31 % growth in revenue from engineered systems and fluids, respectively, driven by acquisitions.

The continuing success of the sector within the office market is also evidenced by the growth in competition over the two years, as high levels of demand from customers drives «fleet of foot» operator innovation, and creates clearer and more distinctive customer offers and facilities.

That large rises in the gold price are NOT primarily driven by increasing fear of «inflation» is evidenced by the fact that the large multi-year gold rallies of 2001 - 2006 and 2008 - 2011 began amidst FALLING inflation expectations.

Driven by their fallacy of composition, and with no empirical evidence to justify their reforms, regulators are weakening the system as a whole, repeating the mistakes of the US of the past.

Responses to the global HIV / AIDS epidemic are often driven not by evidence but by ideology, stereotypes, and false assumptions.

Hearing stupid atheists respond to my posts is the best evidence that i'm right... you get all these angry morons that don't have a clue what they're talking about trying to attack my argument, «BUT THOSE PEOPLE WHO MURDERED MILLIONS THEY WERE N'T DRIVEN BY ATHEISM TO KILL»....

As to alcoholics, he says: «The broad interpretation that best fits the evidence is that heavy drinkers are people for whom drinking has become a central activity in their way of life... for the long - term heavy drinker, life has come to center on drinking — life [that] is pervaded by a preoccupation with drinking, shaped and driven by the quest for drink, drinking situations, and drinking friends» (p. 100).

Whether it be Wieman's general appropriation of James's «knowledge by acquaintance» in Religious Experience and Scientific Method, Meland's «appreciative awareness,» or Loomer's more narrative forms of gathering evidence, each purports merely to describe, but then evinces that the description is driven by rather specific personal and / or contextual definitions of what counts as religious experience.

It would be convenient to say that he was driven to this by the determinisms of rationalistic idealism or positivistic empiricism; but there is little evidence that James lived and breathed those epistemological issues (as many of James's disciples do today) or felt their control enough to be driven by them alone to a state of depression.

I think my old self is the core of my being — driven, evidence - oriented, highly impressed by the red - letter quotes attributed to Jesus, risk - taker, lover of arts.

Our attempts to see the natural revelation God has installed in the Creation act includes what «Science» discovers, but knowing we need to filter worldly bias in the presentation of such «scientific» evidences since the ideas of the world are driven by another mindset.

Backed by evidence - based policy and funding decisions, school nutrition professionals, advocates, students, and families have driven this progress, and in seven years, they have fundamentally remade school meal programs for America's kids.

In a recent briefing paper on breaks and discontinuities in official data series in the UK, two of us [Dixon and Hood] highlighted the tension between the demand for quantitative evidence to drive performance improvement and the tendency to systematically destroy the very evidence by which performance can be evaluated.

There will always be cranks with ideas driven by religious zealotry impervious to sense and evidence.

What's more, by the sound of things he will be playing a very similar role as he did under Blair, providing evidence - based policy to a government that has on occasion seemed bereft of ideas and more driven by marketing than political conviction.

«This reckless move, driven by ideology not evidence, risks locking the UK into an expensive polluting fossil fuel future — increasing our exposure to volatile gas prices and forcing controversial fracking developments onto communities before the full impact is understood.

The chairman of the New York Republican Party, Ed Cox, called the loss of two seats in reapportionment evidence that the heavily Democratic state was a «shrinking empire,» marked by «policies that drive people from our borders.»

The CJC's Needs Assessment Report, which was validated by industry expert RicciGreeneAssociates in 2013, called for a two pronged approach — first, enhance the County's innovative work with Alternatives to Incarceration programs to divert people away from the jail and drive down recidivism; and second, move forward with larger jail facility, designed as transition center campus where the County can improve its ability to institute additional evidence - based rehabilitative and re-entry programs.

WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock discusses the locked box, upcoming Fund Drive, President Donald Trump's ongoing feud with Rex Tillerson, comments by Senator Bob Corker, evidence of Russian collusion and Robert Mueller's investigation.

There was talk that Raffa was an arsonist and his beating a mob hit; that five gallons of kerosene had been found in his car and had somehow disappeared from the station house; that «every cop in Brooklyn» knows the name of Raffa's assailant but higher - ups refuse to arrest him; that the car containing the combustible evidence was driven away from the scene by Cuomo's detective - bodyguard, who's a relative of the Cuomo family; that the police reports (DD5s) on the case were missing from headquarters; and that the governor was at the scene shortly after the incident and had used state troopers to erase any evidence of his father - in - law's possible criminality.

For years our endless war on drugs has been driven more by tabloid headlines then scientific evidence, with newspapers getting to define the terms of the debate.

Not necessarily — a negative anti-government vote counts just the same as a positive vote when it goes in a ballot box and the evidence from 2010 suggests that a large proportion of Conservative voters were driven more by anti-Labour feeling than support for the Tories.

Evidence has been accumulating for several years that contagious yawning is driven by social cognition.

«The widespread loss of Antarctic ice shelves, driven by a warming ocean or warming atmosphere, could spell disaster for our coastlines — and there is sound geological evidence that supports what the models are telling us,» said Robert M. DeConto of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a co-author of the study and one of the developers of the ice - sheet model used.

As such, the rate of diffusion of misinformation can be very rapid as evidenced by recent events driven by panic spreading online regarding so - called «swine» flu in 2009 and a mass exodus from an Asian nation also driven by unnecessary online panic.

The findings add to evidence that humans — despite the comforts of our civilized world — still respond to the geophysical rhythms of the moon, driven by a circalunar clock.

The evidence: Measurements of the expansion of the universe show it is accelerating, apparently driven by a mysterious repulsion.

Dr. Rohrich and colleagues write, «Much of this controversy was driven by incomplete information, poor documentation and analysis, and the puzzling decision to withhold key medical evidence from both from investigators and the public.»

The investigation of self - reported sleep patterns and nighttime temperatures across the United States is one of the first studies to provide evidence that rising temperatures, driven by climate change, could affect human sleep.

New research provides the first clear evidence that the amount of nutrients transported to the fetus by the placenta adjusts according to both the fetal drive for growth, and the mother's physical ability to provide.

«Nevertheless, we have evidence that the second step has to happen, and that the second step is initiated by or is occurring at a time where telomeres are critically short and when telomeres can be dysfunctional and drive genomic instability,» he said.

«Driven largely by commercial interests, many clinical studies generate more noise than meaningful evidence,» Naci and Ioannidis conclude.

While some may see evidence of rapid glacier thinning in the past and again today as evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is nearing a collapse driven by human - caused climate change, Steig said at this point, scientists just don't know whether that is the case.

But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (and the California Air Resources Board) have noted that turning corn into ethanol can actually be a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and other unintended environmental effects, largely by driving the expansion of agriculture and its attendant pollution — as evidenced by previous studies published in Science.

Rigorous Experiments In the past 20 years significant evidence has accumulated to suggest that these diet doctors may have been right, that the hormone hypothesis is a viable explanation for why we get fat and that insulin resistance, driven perhaps by the sugars in the diet, is a fundamental defect not just in type 2 diabetes but in heart disease and even cancer.