Sentences with phrase «evidence against you»

Yet the scientific evidence against this myth is overwhelming.

The results provide strong evidence against the frequently debated negative effects of playing violent video games in adults.

A new Family Relations study provides robust evidence against deep - rooted social perceptions of same - sex relationships being conflictual, unhappy, and dysfunctional.

Praising the book's rigor, depth, and clarity, reviewer Richard J. McNally delves into the scientific evidence against enhanced interrogation techniques.

A jury assessing evidence against a defendant, a CEO evaluating information about a company or a scientist weighing data in favor of a theory will undergo the same cognitive process.

We may conclude that even though the visual system can make sophisticated use of such abstract properties as the physics of luminance ratios and the statistics of segmentation required for transparency, it is «dumb» with regard to other characteristics such as color because of the happenstance manner in which its hardware (or «squishy - ware») evolved through natural selection — strong evidence against «intelligent design.»

There was little empirical evidence against it.

Adams» study provides evidence against the idea that children of same - sex couples suffer disadvantages.

To say hurricane Katrina was an indication of climate change is no more correct than saying the current cold outbreak is evidence against climate change — I mean, that's weather — but it does influence people.

The only evidence against the Maguire Seven were thin - layer chromatography tests, carried out at the RARDE, which seemed to show that the Maguires had handled some nitroglycerine.

In the second case, the evidence against the suspect is stronger, because a size 15 is less common than a size 9,» says Morrison.

«Lawmakers who are concerned about developing a highly skilled workforce in their state should balance this evidence against any perceived benefit of tuition guarantees,» Delaney said.

And while he would, occasionally, declare himself intrigued or even «staggered» by some fresh piece of evidence against him, he would always conclude that, all things considered, he was still right and everyone else was wrong.

«There is some potential for conflict over the need for cooperation from local authorities (in Indonesia) in gathering evidence against violators,» said Andrew Wood, senior analyst at Business Monitor International.

«Despite strong evidence against the use of codeine in children, the drug continues to be prescribed to large numbers of them each year,» said Sunitha Kaiser, MD, UCSF assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco and lead author.

George Musser makes a case for the existence of free will that ignores the following evidence against it: Some people would pay to do what others wouldn't do, no matter how much you paid them.

«Schools censor from students the evidence against evolution.

She also ticks off evidence against the many potential carcinogens plaguing us still: the ADD drug Ritalin; aspartame, the sugar substitute used in diet drinks and foods; and untold pesticides, cleaning agents, and cosmetics found frequently in our homes.

But the rider was soon exonerated by the Italian Olympic committee, which held that the evidence against Pellizotti was insufficient to prove his guilt.

WE CAN only imagine the look on Bill Gates's face when he learned that four - year - old personal files were to be used as evidence against him in the US government's antitrust case against Microsoft.

Wilson's article does point out some interesting initial evidence against the long - term use of antipsychotics in schizophrenia.

«So it's hard to compare this modest body of evidence against evidence for a medication like Prozac or Zoloft that has numerous studies to back it up.»

Although the case never went to trial because of Ivins's suicide on 29 July 2008, FBI officials have claimed that the evidence against him is indisputable and that he carried out the mailings using anthrax stolen from a flask at USAMRIID.

At first, the evidence against this revisionist interpretation will strike twentieth century Americans as irrefutable.

Friends of the Earth is currently drafting a piece of advice for would - be car owners, telling them that «no one in their right mind would recommend diesel» in the light of the health evidence against PM10 emissions.

Creel's paper was seen as damning evidence against wolves, but his results were based on indirect observations.

After combing through the evidence against the academics, interviewing their families, Turkish journalists, and government officials, the IHRN team concluded that they are all unjustly accused and should be released immediately.

Celebrated for his pendulum experiment in 1851, Foucault also produced decisive evidence against the particle theory of light, invented the gyroscope, perfected the reflecting telescope and measured the sun's distance

In fact, people seem to double down on their beliefs in the teeth of overwhelming evidence against them.

Although there was additional evidence against Dobson and Norris that helped to secure their conviction, several new studies illustrate that contamination is an issue that should be given more consideration than suggested by the prosecution.

But a new genetic study of a 1000 - year - old skeleton from the Bahamas shows that at least one modern Caribbean population is related to the region's precontact indigenous people, offering direct molecular evidence against the idea of Taino «extinction.»

Meanwhile, in the face of powerful evidence against two of its strongest initial hypotheses — concerning MMR and thimerosal — the vaccine skeptic movement is morphing before our eyes.

Reading through the trial notes, it's clear that the most damning evidence against Yupanki were letters detailing the conspiracy, written on paper in Spanish and found among his possessions.

Darwin was only half - right about evolution: evidence against natural selection is mounting up, argue Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli - Palmarini

However, different telescopes have observed a bright light source at the location of the stars» collision, which provides clear evidence against the hypothesis of collapse.

And when the police had ample corroborating evidence against the suspects, the rate of positive identification by confident eyewitnesses shot up to 90 %, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Oswego County District Attorney Greg Oakes has said he believes Thibodeau is guilty and there's no credible evidence against Breckenridge, Bohrer or Steen.

But the acquaintance, who the New York Post identified as businessman Eric Hu, began cooperating with federal investigators and even wore a wire to build evidence against Meng.

A top operative of the commission said on Friday that the leadership of the commission had initiated a discreet probe of the former First Lady in a bid to assemble evidence against her in the event of her prosecution as a fallout of the commission's decision to freeze $ 20m traced to her.

From the tidbits of information gleaned at a hearing on Thursday in Federal District Court in Manhattan, it appeared that prosecutors had argued last fall — in a closed hearing and in sealed court papers — to be able to use certain evidence against Mr. Silver at trial.

He shut the commission down even as it was developing key evidence against Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, the two leaders of the state Legislature — and it's obvious he did it at their request, in exchange for other concessions in Albany's endless bargaining.

Proponents of publicly financed political campaigns have been energized in recent weeks after a State Assemblyman and Senator were charged with bribery, and another Assemblyman admitted to wearing a wire to gather evidence against his colleagues.

«The remaining 18 suspects have been released unconditionally for lack of prima facie evidence against them.»

Why did they just pick on two people who some of us gave evidence against and were taken to court and imprisoned?

But there is no evidence against Ken when he was in government either with Margaret Thatcher or with John Major.

Senior officials at the ICC yesterday claimed that leading members of Colonel Gaddafi's regime had come forward to offer evidence against the leader and his loyalists.

The evidence against the Skeloses, who were convicted of bribery, extortion and conspiracy, laid bare schemes that were remarkable for both their brazenness and their familial motivation: The father seemed willing to do anything for his son.

Federal prosecutors quickly vowed to retry the case, noting that the appeals court said that the evidence against Mr. Silver was legally sufficient to support a conviction.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has been presenting evidence against Deputy Chief Michael Harrington, Deputy Inspector James Grant and Brooklyn businessman Jeremy Reichberg since their arrest last month in an alleged pay - for - favors scheme, sources said.

He said he included the issue in the criminal complaint «by way of background» because some of the evidence against Silver came about «because we took the files of the Moreland Commission.»