Sentences with phrase «for paucity»

This assumption might be the reason for the paucity of empirical studies that aim to explain changes in parenting as a result of participation in a parenting program.

No doubt that practical commercial reality accounts for the paucity of Canadian cases in this area — judgment creditors tend to go forward only in those jurisdictions where little doubt exists that their judgment debtors possess assets.

For MacEwen, the article prompted a letter to the NYT's editor, in which he offers his explanation for the paucity of women at the top.

One of the reasons for the paucity of Canadian objects must be the fact that no Canadian library is a partner participant in the project.

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Are law school rankings responsible for the paucity of law school curriculum offerings and counseling services that would help lawyers start law firms straight out of school?

But when he throws around the label global warming or climate «alarmist» to compensate for the paucity of genuine science on his side of the argument, and does this while chairing a US Senate Committee, this is abuse not merely of argument but of power.

The Academy Awards have been under scrutiny the last few years for its paucity of diversity — particularly in the acting categories.

Oh, and there are some boats to drive clumsily around the inland rivers here and there, but they hardly make up for the paucity of drivable trucks on the island.

The former Kaduna State governor also dismissed claim that the convention may be postponed for paucity of funds.

One could give it many praises, for the paucity of its approach, for the impressive collection of interviewees it secures and for the dogged determination with which it pursues its thesis.

Undeterred by the antics of pathological critics whose first instinct is to circumvent, not support, ideas, however innovative, he has to a large extent succeeded in replicating his feat as Commissioner for Works under Bola Tinubu in Osun and I'm sure he'd have done more, but for paucity of funds.

[BTW, my apologies for the paucity of recent posts on e.politics — the cat's been cryin» for her dinner, too, but I should have a couple of solid Drupal - based advocacy websites to show off shortly.]

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This includes «chronic, structural racial injustice — such as the persistent paucity of black faculty members and administrators at Yale, the common experience of being the only black student in some classes, and being disproportionately likely to be stopped and asked for ID — or worse — by campus police officers.»

That, at least, is my own hunch about the reason for the relative paucity of material about the family coming from the churches and the character of what material there is, What to do in such circumstances?

If it no longer betrays «the freshness and vividness of original composition,» at least it bears the marks of the hard age in which it arose, reflects the circumscribed outlook of its author and first readers, and reveals most clearly the paucity of the materials at the author's disposal — especially for a presentation of Jesus» teaching.

Or are we, partly by the paucity of our records, whose composition has been so largely shaped by factors quite other than a modern demand for historical, factual accuracy, partly by the demands of a theology that would emphasize divine acceptance above divine judgement, compelled to say that all we find here is the most sublime presentation in time of the eternal readiness of God to receive to himself the truly penitent?

Richard John Neuhaus notes the paucity of Christians despite «missionary endeavors for half a millennium.»

There is lack of DNA sequence data for a head - to - head chromosomal fusion, there also exists a decided paucity of data to indicate a cryptic centromere.

Indeed, one must be impressed by the paucity of categories for describing the problem: on the one side, we Christians stand arrayed against the liberals on the other side.

What about the knowingly misleading teaching issuing from the pens and mouths of disaffected clergy, experts and establishment journalists, not to mention nearly two generations of ambiguous teaching in our schools and the paucity of episcopal backing for NFP programmes?

People just have determined to believe in atheistic / naturalistic evolution despite the utter paucity of support for it, and the overwhelming evidence (in terms of what we know of the nature and benefit of mutations) against it.

On the contrary, it is an argument for believing in the face of a paucity of evidence, and is thoroughly fallacious all the same.

And when their common language, used to do business in a technically preoccupied age, is shaped to the paucity of dimensions necessary to such business, the roundness and the depth become silent for want of verbal counterparts for the felt but inchoate self.

Moffett says that one of the reasons for the neglect of the Asian dimension in church history is the comparative paucity of available source materials on eastern roots of Christianity outside the Roman empire.

R&D departments also have to deal with the paucity of technical and product development expertise for formulating with alternatives.

Of the two dozen or so sandwiches I downed for this assignment — the paucity of that word sandwich, though accurate, clangs against the glory of the thing itself — I ate lobster piled into hot dog buns, kaiser rolls, croissants, hamburger buns, garlic bread, and hidden - behind the - counter buns from a French bakery.

Although a considerable body of scientific evidence substantiates the positive correlation between curcumin consumption and a reduction in the risk of cancer, the paucity of suitably designed human clinical trials that clearly demonstrate any direct effect of curcumin on cancer markers may prevent Health Canada from approving a cancer risk reduction claim for curcumin within the current regulatory framework.

After a few hospitals began allowing fathers to participate in childbirth, a paucity of childbirth instructors prompted Allen and a group of parents and nurses to develop a curriculum for prepared childbirth.

The paucity of evidence for the longer term consequences of adverse events and other health outcomes after birth for both mother and baby remains and further research to generate combined QALY estimates for the linked mother - baby dyad should be a priority for research in this specialty.

Many studies and policy documents have highlighted the paucity of parents» preparation for parenthood.

This study has highlighted the paucity of parents» preparation for parenthood, the lack of inclusion of fathers from antenatal education and that the inadequate preparation remains a concern to both women and their partners.

Hi folks, sorry for the relative paucity of posts this week — your Loyal Editor is a bit under the weather.

But rather than blame the Labour electorate for the rise of Corbyn, the party should instead look at the paucity of the alternatives.

Hubbard said Cuomo also expressed an openness to addressing over the next two years of his four - year term the «paucity» of the welfare grant, education and job training for prisoners and low - income New Yorkers, and access to transportation for rural communities.

It furthered stated that the sum of N1.2 billion computed by the staff union for payment could not have been budgeted for in 2016 in the first place, not only because of the paucity of funds, but also the fact that the SOT allowance was not part of the remuneration in the Federal Public Service.

And on it goes: the Anderson website's «solutions» pages ladle on a thick glaze of leftish rhetoric that can not conceal a paucity of programmatic specificity on many key progressive demands and a troubling penchant for pandering to the right.

The on topic Q&A included redesign plans for other streets, especially Queens Boulevard, why the administration attributes the reduction in pedestrian fatalities to Vision Zero and not to regular year - to - year variances, how the administration actually knows that driving speeds are reduced, why so few street redesign projects have been done on Staten Island, data for any changes in safety at this E.Tremont / Silver Street intersection, why Commissioner Bratton did not attend, why there are few speeding and failure to yield tickets issued in this (45th) precinct, the negative effect of speed bumps on emergency response vehicles, plans for marking and painting of roads, whether the mayor will seek additional red light camera authorizations from the state legislature, the paucity of criminal prosecutions against drivers who kill pedestrians and an estimate of money received from speed camera tickets.

I want to put it on record that we are deeply concerned about the paucity of information that we have received from the Home Office and about the implications, therefore, for community cohesion.

Steve: And for awhile there, there was a paucity of scientist heroes on TV, but then the CSI thing just really exploded.

«For instance, the «brown dwarf desert,» an unexplained paucity of objects that are larger than giant planets but smaller than stars.

However, this figure is still uncertain due to a paucity of observed data for large areas like the Sundra Shelf of Southeast Asia.

Although the source of the attraction of the Galápagos, both for Darwin and for tourists today, is the paucity of civilization that has allowed it to evade human influence, Ecuadoran law says that to visit the uninhabited islands you have to be on a tour in the company of a «naturalist.»

Astronomers have developed a number of theories for why we haven't found more, but none of them could account for both the paucity of dwarf galaxies and their properties, including their mass, size, and density.

Given the paucity of academic openings and most universities» perplexing reluctance to bring their own, presumably well - trained, postdocs into their tenured ranks, there is thus a pressing need for professional - development training to equip postdocs for opportunities beyond the campus.

«One of the major problems for those of us interested in estimating the public - health consequences of the accident has been the paucity of reliable data,» says Baverstock.

By 2100, climate change could be responsible for a massive die - off on the ocean floor, due to a paucity of nutrients floating down from the surface.

«Because statins are used primarily in adults, there is a paucity of data for child and infant patients.

That a program could be celebrated for more than 20 years and lavished with money and still fail to help people out of poverty underscores the paucity of evidence in antipoverty programs.

In normal humans, relationships between cognitive test performance and cortical structure have received little study, in part, because of the paucity of tools for measuring cortical structure.