Sentences with phrase «hard evidence about»

Although much is known about how to help welfare recipients find jobs, there is less hard evidence about what can be done to help current and former recipients and other low - wage workers stay employed or advance in the labor market.

Evaluating teachers with no hard evidence about their primary responsibility is just plain irresponsible.

We are excited to be part of an ambitious initiative that will provide hard evidence about whether and how building a complete pipeline of effective principals can boost student achievement.»

Communities take great pride in championship football teams and show - piece libraries, media centers, and performing - arts centers, and they are loathe to give them up, particularly when the hard evidence about the benefits of small schools is still years away.

Not exact matches

Our brains work hard to preserve our self - image and support our specific attitudes about life even when evidence is thin.

I saw hard - core evidence that John and Gloria were serious» about their intentions to change how they headed the company.

He has lots of hard evidence to back it up, too: if you measure prosperity in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, not only has Canada been lagging the States for years, but lately that «prosperity gap» has grown bigger — reaching about $ 8,900 as of 2010.

I wanted to use that quote because one of the goals of the Short Seller's Journal is to present hard evidence that brings to your attention the «negative underlying factors» which contradict the «official» narrative about the economy and financial system.

You can look around and find evidence of froth if you look hard enough — I wrote about Silicon Valley last week — but as far as bubbles go, this is junior varsity stuff.

The other possibility, the evocation of the transcendent good — grace, beauty, God — through the hard temporal realities of individuals in action is much harder to carry off, as evidenced in Greene's The Power and the Glory, Charles Williams» Descent into Hell, C. S. Lewis» Out of the Silent Planet, Tolstoy's Resurrection, and perhaps most poignantly in the dismal failure of most literary attempts to portray the central mystery, the life of Jesus — Kazantzakis» The Greek Passion, Faulkner's A Fable, or — most dismal of all, historical novels about Jesus (what could be less hidden?)

And megalomania would be claiming to know all about these things — spirits and gods — when you really have no hard evidence whatsoever to back up your claims.

The band has been pretty tight - lipped about the release date for their next album, but we are taking their radio silence as evidence that they are working hard in a studio somewhere on a new album.

Reading some of the ignorant comments on here about science does make it hard to accept evolution, because so many comments here don't evidence evolution.

I just wan na say weather what proof you have or evidence every religion book, scriptures, and testamony might know how the world will end but does nt know cause if everybody knew what day it was going to happen they would do all the things that people are doing following this man like quiting jobs and all that because in the bible under «THE CALL TO READINESS «it says God or jesus does nt want you to worry about when the world will end but the do want you to keep busy and continue to work hard JUST LIKE GOD DID TO CREATE the world so i do nt think noone should buy into this and it shouldnt be advertised cause thats not what GOD or JESUS would want because when he rises unexpectedly key word unexpectedly his joy and his welcoming would be him nknowing that the creatures aka as us humans have been following his will and working hard!!!

From my reading of the evidence in this affair (what's so hard about citing someone?)

As I've heard other bloggers attest to, sometimes the hardest part about putting together a blog post is actually sitting down and writing it (as evidenced by the fact that I initially spelled that as righting — whoops).

Evidence of processed sugar cane has been found in Papua, New Guinea, dating back 8,000 years, and mounds of processed hard sugar were documented about 2,500 years ago during the Persian invasion of India.

There is a bit of a debate about the role of animal protein in diet, mostly about the studies that only show associations of protein and disease and not hard evidence of causality.

I have seen no evidence that either of them participated in any kind of bad behavior, or even knew about any of the specific events, yet I have a hard time believing that neither of them had a sense that something was going on.

I've had several arguments with hard core advocates over this, in fact — and was told that I don't know what I'm talking about, despite the fact that I have actually successfully nursed 6 children, and that all the evidence we have shows that women who are exhausted are likely to have supply problems.

«We are hearing lots about «anecdotal evidence», but the only hard figures we have showed an increase in the level of disorder.

Edmund J. McMahon, director of the Empire Center for New York State Policy, a conservative group, said, «The hype and the rhetoric was all about tremendous, dramatic, earthshaking change, and it's hard to find any evidence of that.»

* Reliable evidence about whether Liberal Democrat voters prefer Labour to the Conservatives, and if so by what degree, is hard to come by.

Kant died in 1804, so it's hard to say what he would have thought about evidence hierarchy pyramids.

Male circumcision cuts the risk of HIV transmission in men by about 60 percent and should be scaled up in countries hardest hit by the epidemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced in March, citing compelling evidence from three large trials in Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa.

For decades theories about human evolution had proliferated despite the absence of much, if any, hard evidence.

Those methods also destroy evidence about how hard the gas pedal was pressed.

In the absence of any hard evidence thus far, scientists can only make educated guesses about what we'll actually see when New Horizons makes its long - awaited flyby of Pluto and its moons on July 14.

You had me worried when you mentioned your «bad feeling» about low cholesterol levels in vegans and while there seems to be plenty evidence to support the claim that having high cholesterol can be positive for many health reasons, I've not found any hard evidence that outright proves that vegans and vegetarians who eat a well balanced diet AND have low cholesterol are at risk of cancer, brain and nervous system issues, etc..

I believe evidence from breast milk is both more precise about what diet is optimal, and much harder for skeptics to refute.

My entire «journey» has been about me doing whatever it takes to achieve my goals with a healthy and evidence - based diet and it's hard to argue that with 30 years of combined research in this area that Phinney and Volek aren't reliable in terms of evidence.

As with other anecdotal evidence about CBD, you don't have to look hard to find stories of dogs in extreme pain who purportedly found relief through CBD.

The cold hard truth is that there's little to NO SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE supporting the claims made by supplement companies about their testosterone boosters actually raising...

It's also too lazy to put any effort into tasks as simple as toy parody, as evidenced by the «Happy Happy Princess Doll» that Kiki's daughter supposedly covets, and too lazy to follow that set - up with any further jokes about a hard - to - find holiday toy.

However, these development experts have little hard evidence for their assertions about private - school quality.

And is it not worsening in our schools — despite the valiant efforts of the Common Core, the AP program, and others to push students to seek actual evidence in original texts rather than just saying what they think about something — as contemporary liberalism pushes them hard to embrace and amplify what historians call «presentism»?

Asked about the poor showing of Cincinnati's vaunted community schools, Fariña called their results «pretty good» — a statement that's not only hard to support with evidence, but also suggests a surprising lack of urgency about academic achievement in some of the city's most hard - pressed schools.

Barton and Larson summarize, «Leading for equity is hard, yet inspiring, work: It requires thoughtful and bold conversations about race and poverty, close examination of policies and practices, and astute attention to a variety of data and evidence of student achievement, progress, and success.

Their report, «The Mirage: Confronting the Hard Truth about Our Quest for Teacher Development,» found that the surveyed teachers spent an average of 19 school days each year in teacher development sessions, but only three out of 10 teachers improved their performance as evidenced by several factors including evaluation ratings and classroom observations.

She is the author and co-author of several articles and books about the role of families and community members in the work of student achievement and school improvement including: A New Wave Of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family and Community Connections on Student Achievement (2002); «Having Their Say: Parents Describe How and Why They are Engaged in Their Children's Learning» (2003); Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family - School Partnerships (2010); «Debunking the Myth of the Hard to Reach Parent» (2010); «Title I and Parent Involvement: Lessons from the Past, Recommendations for the Future» (2011); and A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform (2011).

Interestingly, the study was commissioned by district leaders who were already concerned about what they believed to be occurring in this regard, but for which they had no hard evidence... until the completion of this study.

Admittedly, there are some paid services, though I'm yet to see any hard evidence either way about their efficacy.

This contributes to a toxic environment in which it's hard to get to the core of the problem, as evidenced by comments on this page that talk about «dumb Americans», «US is so behind in many many ways, they need to catch up», etc...

While the therapeutic benefits of animal - assisted therapy for patients with cancer have long been shared anecdotally by doctors, patients, caregivers, and animal - handlers, there has been limited hard evidence to substantiate these claims and no rigorous evaluations about how to best implement animal - assisted therapy in pediatric oncology settings.

While therapy dog programs are common in children's hospitals across the country, and therapeutic benefits of animal - assisted therapy for patients with cancer have long been shared anecdotally by doctors, patients, families and therapy dog owners, there has been limited hard evidence to substantiate these claims and no rigorous evaluations about how to best implement animal - assisted therapy in pediatric oncology settings.

We can talk all day about how the market for pet products is recession resistent, but the success of Global Pet Expo provides hard evidence that the industry is alive and well.

Hard to tell really since the source seems to be a French video games magazine posting about it on Twitter, and there have been an awful lot of unreliable rumours about new games posted in foreign language publications (see many Japanese magazines posting rumours about the 3DS without any evidence behind them).

Of course another interpretation would simply be to posit that those rejecting the alarming visions of a human - unraveled climate are illustrating another solid human trait — skepticism about overwrought claims in the absence of hard evidence (don't expect that any time soon) or direct experience (same deal, at least in prosperous places).

And if he has evidence (the original hard copy or the envelope it came in), it may provide clues about his anonymous correspondent, whom he would want to protect.

The overall conclusion is that while there is much talk about the role of LGs in addressing CC, there is little hard evidence that CC figures prominently on the routine agenda of most LGs in the developing countries of the Asia - Pacific region.