Sentences with phrase «evidence of a long history»

Everywhere you venture there are Gothic and tall ex mercantile buildings and evidence of a long history spanning the best part of a millennium.

Formerly an outpost belonging to the Empire of Japan, before its liberation by US Marines in 1944, evidence of a long history of conflict and turmoil can still be found dotted across the island — relics from times long - since passed.

Not exact matches

It would be folly to mistake bid - ask bounce in deep value penny stocks, measured from the bottom of perhaps the greatest stock crash in U.S. history, for evidence of the long - term out - performance of all small stocks versus all large stocks across other, calmer periods.

Value has a long history as an investing style, backed up by empirical evidence that portfolios of the cheapest stocks outperform the broad market.

About fifty million years ago, a brief moment in the long history of life on earth, geological evidence indicates, CO2 levels were several thousand ppm, much higher than now.

I will not engage in the lazy arrogance of claiming history is on our side; but I will go so far as to say that in the long term all past evidence suggests that it is certainly not on the side of those who brook no dissent, ignore all counter-evidence, and demonize all opposition.

The truth is, both evolution and god are but ideas, however one idea has evidence while the other (god) has only believers and a long history of them.

The New Mexico State Legislature and Governor King quickly passed Senate Joint Memorial 5, which stated, in part and with considerable exaggeration: «Whereas, despite New Mexico's long and rich chile history and prehistory, with solid archaeological evidence indicating the continuous use of both red and green chile since the time of Folsom Man some twelve thousand years ago [this is not true], we now find «Texas Man» claiming the noble chile as his; and whereas despite the facts, we hear boasting from east of the Pecos that «The Lone Star State» is the chili capital of the Southwest... and Texas chefs malign the noble «red and green» by blending it into a slurry of kidney beans and onions called chili; now, therefore, be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico that the Land of Enchantment bets the «whole enchilada» and its reputation as the Chile Capital of the World against the Lone Star State in the Mother of All Chile Wars Festival to be held May 29 - 31, 1993 at the Doña Ana County Fairgrounds.»

Mayweather dismissed almost all of Nichols» questions, insisting evidence is insufficient, people are entitled to their own «opinions», and «only God can judge» him when needled about his long history of domestic violence.

this myth for years that the arsenal board and shreholders are greedy and only care about money has baffed me for a long time now, there is no concrete evidence that that is the case just opinions that its the case, the board are there to just make sure that the club runs smoothly and do nt go bankrupt under there watch in the history of the club that all the board has ever done nothing more.

By refraining from making first time relationship initiatives, women may be providing evidence to potential long - term mates that they would not make the first move with another man in the future, given their history of not doing so in the past.»

NWHN also has a long history of advocacy around the standard of evidence necessary to prove that routine interventions used during pregnancy and childbirth, including medications, are safe and effective.

In fairness I don't think he meant it in a development context - he'd be clearly wrong since the Washington Consensus is long dead and overwhelming evidence from Stiglitz, Ha - Joon Chang, Oxfam and others show that no country in history has lifted its people out of poverty without an active state, the infant industry arguments etc..

«Although this decision puts on hold the justice that New Yorkers got upon Silver's conviction, we look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history.

Kim's statement goes on to say, «Although this decision puts on hold the justice that New Yorkers got upon Silver's conviction, we look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history.

«Although this decision puts on hold the justice that New Yorkers got upon Silver's conviction, we look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history,» he said.

The Lib Dems have long held the most reasonable, evidence based drug policy of the three biggest UK parties and, if passed, their latest drugs motion would build on that history in grand style.

«We look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history,» Mr. Kim said.

«Although this decision puts on hold the justice that New Yorkers got upon Silver's conviction, we look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history,» Kim said.

Western scientists and students of history have long explained the iron bloomery process by evidence available from European archeology.

A second piece of evidence suggesting a long history of leprosy lies within the bacterial genome.

Palaeontologists have long suspected that some dinosaurs migrated, but this is the first solid evidence of it, says Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum in London.

But once the researchers began looking for traces of similar yeasts in other lichens, they found related lineages in 52 genera of lichens worldwide and molecular evidence that indicates a long, shared evolutionary history between the symbiotic partners.

«Given the effectiveness of inosine in promoting cortical plasticity, axonal sprouting, and dendritic branching, the present evidence of efficacy after cortical injury in a non-human primate, combined with a long history of safe use, indicates a need for clinical trials with inosine after cortical injury and spinal cord injury,» noted Dr. Moore.

That said, the most outspoken creationists have a long history of ignoring, selectively citing, or simply distorting the evidence in order to support their conclusions — which is to say that they are not following the procedures of the scientific method, and their claims should be viewed accordingly.

Brian Richmond, a curator in the Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, said, «With this study, we finally have evidence of what we long suspected — australopiths used their human - like hand proportions to handle objects in human - like ways.»

To date there is little clinical data on the safety of herbs during pregnancy, but the anecdotal evidence and long history of use in many cultures seems to indicate raspberry leaf is quite safe.

But the pomegranate, one of the most talked about super foods, has a long history of benefiting human health as well as the scientific evidence to back it up.

It is clear from such oral tradition, as well as by more concrete anthropological evidence, that emus have long been a fundamental part of survival throughout the 40,000 years of human history in the region.

Such dilemmas resist easy solutions, and the long history of failed fads like computer - based teaching provide ample evidence of this.

The Corvette Racing team has a long history of success in long - distance events, evidenced by victories like our win this year at the Rolex 24.»

Samsung and Apple has a long history of legal battles, and during court Samsung submitted some evidence that detail a couple of upcoming Windows 8 phones, the Odyssey and the Marco.

Although some evidence exists of a small, white, long - backed terrier imported into Wales in the 15th century, the documented history of the Sealyham begins only in the mid-1800s.

Dear Karen: TulsaPets Magazine has a long history of supporting the Tulsa Shelter as evidenced in our long standing Shelter Report.

deep history manifests itself through logs left behind during the last days of man whilst others hearken back to long - extinct natives of Illuna, providing evidence into the events that led up to the pandemonium that now persists.

For one, BAF had failed to reach out to Arts in Bushwick and many prominent members of the arts and activist community, which AiB (in a statement released to B+B back in March) worried was evidence that the BAF organizers were «creating a simulation of our community as a commercial space for outsiders or newcomers in the neighborhood who do not know the decade long history of Bushwick Open Studios.»

«Artists have always held tremendous power, which is not usually in evidence except when you look at the long view of history,» says the show's curator, Jessica Daryl Winer.

Sultan's editorial work was an outgrowth of his long history of engagement with a number of different, if overlapping, photographic languages, be it that of the institutional archive (Evidence), the home movie and family album (Pictures from Home), the forensic photograph (The Valley), or the advertising image (Billboards).

The paper uses evidence and modeling to explain how the sun - blocking impact from a 50 - year stretch of unusually intense eruptions of four tropical volcanoes caused sufficient cooling to produce a long - lasting shift in the generation and migration of Arctic Ocean sea ice, with substantial consequences for the Northern Hemisphere climate that lasted centuries and left a deep imprint on European history.

History shows that is also inevitable when enough people gather increasing evidence over long periods of time, that established ideas that are false always succumb to the weight of increasing evidence, and that they are held by an increasingly smaller percentage of the active scientists in the discipline as the evidence grows.

Except under exceptional circumstances, like in southwest USA where several trees are living for thousands of years (Swetnam 1993; Lloyd & Graumlich 1997), most long - term fire histories rely on other direct fire evidence like macroscopic charcoal on and in mineral soils (Filion 1984; Payette & Gagnon 1985; Filion et al. 1991; Desponts & Payette 1993; Lavoie & Payette 1996; Carcaillet 2001; Asselin & Payette 2005b; Talon et al. 2005).

I may be too pessimistic, but based on the history of my science field, this one will be a long fight, it will take decades of non-warming before the evidence of the data becomes heavier than the political bias in the eyes of the average new student.

Unless of course we do the more statistically rational and look at very long - term geological evidence which reveals the earth has changed a whole lot in its history over thousands to millions of years.

Even aside from the reams of evidence in the Striptease documents, Heartland has a long history of mining money from questionable corporate funders and then representing itself as a (taxpayer subsidized) «think tank» - as if its some kind of educational organization contributing to the public conversation about difficult issues.

Ahead of his hearing Friends of the Earth Europe revealed fresh evidence about his links to the oil industry and his long history of conflicts of interest, and there was growing public opposition to his appointment.

Widespread agricultural land use by mid-Holocene is further evidenced by altered fire regimes that may have transformed vegetation structure and species composition across many regions, with woodland ecosystems from the Mediterranean to the Tropics increasingly recognized as the bio-cultural legacies of long histories of prior human use (50, 74, 78 ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ — 84).

After reviewing evidence in both the latest global data (HadCRUT4) and the longest instrumental record, Central England Temperature, a revised picture is emerging that gives a consistent attribution for each multidecadal episode of warming and cooling in recent history, and suggests that the anthropogenic global warming trends might have been overestimated by a factor of two in the second half of the 20th century.

We take only the strongest cases (e.g., employees with long histories of excellent performance who are suddenly mistreated after a new supervisor arrives on the scene, with evidence that the new supervisor is harder on women or black employees).

Our long history of successes evidences the firm's ability and the necessary resources to not only aggressively represent our clients but to obtain the maximum compensation our clients deserve.

More than 60 lawyers from six law firms and six sets of chambers acted in what was the longest inquest in British legal history, lasting over two years, and involving a million pages of evidence.