Sentences with phrase «in scant evidence»

Painting — in scant evidence in previous conceptually driven biennales — is well represented; with Chris Ofili's inclusion providing a welcome flash of populism amid the more esoteric choices.

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And while there is scant evidence to suggest the Waterloo, Ont., firm is set to revisit its glory days (its valuation was $ 83.4 billion in 2008; it's $ 4.3 billion now), in 2016 it took the bold step of redefining its identity as a smaller, more focused and, arguably, more sustainable business.

«The evidence for economic reform to date is scant and based on purported private statements rather than government pronouncements,» wrote Bruce Klingner, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and former CIA official, in an October op - ed for the Los Angeles Times.

Members increasingly criticized three aspects of what seemed to them arrogant behavior of pastor and church: neither Sid nor the congregation adequately participated in Methodist conference functions; they gave scant evidence of traditional Christian piety; they did not, except in some personal ways, concern themselves with the poor.

I have scant photographic evidence of myself in Japan back then.

In the letter, the attorneys write that» when constitutionally - protected contributions are trotted out as evidence of a bribery scheme — particularly when they have scant relevance to the alleged scheme — jurors are unlikely to consider them merely on the convoluted signaling theories the Government relies on for its assertion of probative value.»

While the legislative session still has six weeks to go, there is scant evidence that the governor and the state legislative leaders are focused on a package of meaningful measures that would reduce the risk of corruption in New York.

But there has been scant fossil evidence for what happened to birds — the only dinosaurs to survive the extinction — in its aftermath.

The findings, published in the American Journal of Science, indicate that although plants were first detected on land more than 440 million years ago there is only scant evidence of fire at that time.

Regardless of the advances in understanding CNS dysfunction, JFK today might still be subjected to surgery and / or large doses of opioid medications, although there is scant evidence that either would work, authors write.

In fact, the team reports in an upcoming issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, there seems to be no correlation between dino diversity and the proliferation of flowering plants, and there is scant fossil evidence linking angiosperms to the dino dieIn fact, the team reports in an upcoming issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, there seems to be no correlation between dino diversity and the proliferation of flowering plants, and there is scant fossil evidence linking angiosperms to the dino diein an upcoming issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, there seems to be no correlation between dino diversity and the proliferation of flowering plants, and there is scant fossil evidence linking angiosperms to the dino diet.

A rehabilitated Irwin has now pivoted into theoretical physics, a field in which fantastical claims with scant supporting evidence can still boast a degree of respectability.

Bruce Ribner, the clinician who led the Emory University Hospital team that treated patients Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, said in a recent interview with Scientific American that although studies have shown Ebola patients shed genetic material from the pathogen into their sexual fluids there is scant evidence they are often shedding viable virus that could infect others.

But scant evidence bears out that traditional optimism, according to molecular biologist Adil Shamoo of the University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore, co-author of the textbook Responsible Conduct of Research and the founder and, for nearly 2 decades, the editor of the journal Accountability in Research.

Research suggests that this form of punishment can cause severe psychiatric and neurological damage to inmates, and evidence for its effectiveness in reducing crime or recidivism is scant.

«Individual performance determines NIH award success, while the evidence for racial bias is scant,» says Wang, who this week moved from Virginia Tech to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

There was scant experimental evidence for this hypothesis until 1994, when John Dick and colleagues demonstrated that leukemia - initiating stem cells (LSCs) present in the blood of leukemia patients may induce acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) when transplanted into severe combined immunodeficient mice (2).

There is scant evidence even behind this claim, and policymakers should be cautious in taking their results seriously.

Instead, school districts, eager to be perceived as plugged in and afraid of being penalized for low test scores, have bought into expensive drill - and - kill software — the kind that costs a fortune and displays a silly animation of fireworks or cheering crowds for every five correct answers — with only minimal improvements on test scores and scant evidence of long - term progress among students.

NCES reports that there are more than 600,000 «instructional aides» in K — 12 schools, but the scant evidence available leaves one skeptical that these employees are utilized in a fashion that maximizes teacher effectiveness or alleviates teacher responsibilities.

That's due in part to the scant evidence suggesting the tests are a predictor of future professional ability, according to the Ed Week report.

While there has been much discussion, there has been scant empirical evidence of distributed leadership in practice.

However, there is scant evidence this will be the case for the majority of schools in California (see my testimony at the May 7 State Board of Education meeting, here and here).

While there is certainly evidence that teacher knowledge matters, there is scant evidence that the knowledge reflected in high standardized test scores is closely correlated with becoming a good teacher.

He said the government's schools reforms were «a free market experiment brought in at break - neck speed with scant supporting evidence».

Much to the dismay of rival car makers, Porsche has not sat on its laurels: the evidence being the scant three years between the introduction of the first 991 - generation GT3 RS — a car which moved the game on in every respect — and the arrival of this, the second 991 - generation GT3 RS.

Every car maker on the planet is heading down the Electric Car route, and although there's scant evidence that mainstream buyers will buy in to EVs in a big way, -LSB-...]

White Star Lines Captain Bruce Ismay, long despised for taking a seat in a lifeboat rather than going down with the ship (a scenario eerily relived in the recent sinking of the Costa Concordia), is casually labeled a «masochist» on rather scant evidence.

In tracking the climate challenge (science and policy) since the 1980s I see scant evidence that our politics and public attitudes will make it possible to build a carbon price «pull» sufficient to shape energy investments and choices on a meaningful timescale....

There's scant evidence that well - meaning efforts to raise public awareness and will around the climate challenge will engender willingness to abandon the fuels of convenience — coal and oil — particularly where expanded energy use matters most, in the fast - growing nations of the developing world.

Robert Bindschadler of NASA and Tad Pfeffer at the University of Colorado, both glacier specialists, told me that they saw scant evidence that a yards - per - century rise in seas could be produced from the ice sheets that currently cloak Greenland and West Antarctica, which are very different than what existed in past periods of fast sea - level changes.

For the moment, there's scant evidence to support this at any level — in the basic data on storm patterns or in tallies of damage and deaths.

The need for a direct push on energy innovation is particularly acute given scant evidence, in Cancún treaty talks or elsewhere, that countries where nearly all of the growth in such emissions is coming in the next few decades are willing to restrain this flow for the sake of limiting long - term climate change.

Even with the problems in the Gulf, the science that points to rising risks from accumulating greenhouse gases, and the cheering at a green - jobs fair, there's scant evidence that the country is even remotely engaged in the kind of energy quest that would be required to move off the comfortable fossil - fuel «rung» of what Loren Eiseley called the heat ladder.

He writes, «There is scant evidence to indicate that hurricanes, floods, tornadoes or drought have become more frequent or intense in the U.S. or globally.»

The scant evidence to the contrary (just two papers) is geologically flawed, and in the case of the Australian paper, also proven academic misconduct.

Actually, by the time you approach 200ppmv for CO2, you have already reached the break point in the curve, beyond which additional CO2 has much less impact on the RF — and this is close to the glacial value — suggesting that CO2 changes do not drive the glacial cycles (CO2 changes are supposed to amplify T rise during deglaciation, but there is scant evidence for this and the assumption that it did also underlay the IPCC belief — and a great many references in academic papers give a T degrees C per ppmv CO2 without stating over which range of concentrations this is meant to apply.

Background: Roger Pielke Jr. wrote last month in the WSJ, «There is scant evidence to indicate that hurricanes, floods, tornadoes or drought have become mo...

There is, however, scant evidence of such an approach in a recent decision given on 3 August 2017 by the English Supreme Court in one of the last decisions presided over by Lord Neuberger as President.

There is, however, scant evidence of such an approach in a recent decision given on 3 August 2017 by -LSB-...]

However, there is scant evidence, either in the U.S. or in any other jurisdiction, that this threat has actually materialized in the form of an increase in frivolous claims.

My concern is that the Supreme Court, by setting an arbitrary limit with scant comparable evidence on trial delay, has stirred up a hornet's nest in political circles, where justice spending doesn't have the same political cachet as hospital spending.

... In summary, Brunton takes apart the «stolen children» Report, Bringing Them Home, and shows that despite having been chaired by a former High Court judge, Sir Ronald Wilson, it has shown scant regard for evidence, balance and the credibility of witnesses.

The report says that in contrast to the United States, there is still scant evidence of a significant supply overhang in Canada.