Sentences with phrase «informed observers»

To a more informed observer, the differences of temperature between summer and winter would lead to equally extreme, but merely more distant projections.

Furthermore, an appellate court was able to assume the vantage point of a fair - minded and informed observer with knowledge of the relevant circumstances.

Informed observers of the church's abortion debate discard the popular notion that abortion is largely a Protestant — Roman Catholic debate.

As states develop their initial ESSA plans, most informed observers agree that only a handful will do much more than check the box on federal requirements (e.g., state's duty to act when localities consistently ignore failing schools or groups of children who have no good options).

This Tyee Solutions Society series sets out to consider just what B.C.'s four - year - old Climate Action Plan has and hasn't accomplished so far, including what informed observers say deserves rethinking.

Before the partisan framing sets in, the Tyee Solutions Society thought it might be useful to stand back and consider just what the Climate Action Plan has and hasn't accomplished so far — what's been learned from its successes and lapses, what informed observers say deserves rethinking and what the rival suitors for our support in the coming election have revealed about which elements of the pioneering plan to zero out B.C.'s carbon footprint they may scrap or enhance.

If a fair - minded and informed observer who is neither complacent nor unduly sensitive or suspicious, having considered the facts, would conclude that there was a real possibility of bias or predetermination, then apparent bias or predetermination is established.

Other informed observers insisted this was not the case, and Secretary Duncan seemed to affirm their analysis in recent remarks.

And while many informed observers consider the «Elegies» to be the major accomplishment of the artist's long and distinguished career, I want to propose a very different reading, which is that the «Open» paintings, while less overtly dramatic than the «Elegies,» supersede them in their range, complexity, subtlety, and, more importantly, in the directness with which Motherwell tackled the formal issues that had long preoccupied him.

Informed observers heralded the potential dawn of a fascinating battle for supremacy in Manchester and in British football.

Prevailing science opinion among informed observers is best represented by the recently released Arctic Report Card, an annual update from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

It's selective, but gives you a flavor of what a well - informed observer perceives to be important.

Dr. Benny Peiser, a long time and informed observer of the climate change scene, expressed it very clearly a few days ago as follows: «The IPCC review process has been shown on numerous occasions to lack transparency and due diligence.

Polly and other informed observers, however, agreed with Moore that, among the cacophony of competing interests, «veterans» health care would have a first take at whatever money is available.»

Many informed observers agree.

In 2014, the company acquired Nokia's devices and services business — and most informed observers agree that Microsoft wasn't entirely happy to do so.

But one usually - informed observer said this about it, in the context of that decision: «the parental leave program in which the data clearly indicated that this very expensive program was a failure and not solving the problem it was created to solve.

It is very hard for a well informed observer to see why such research would be warranted, when there is absolutly no evidence for adverse health impacts.

«No informed observer can fail to acknowledge that the social and cultural pluralism of our times - not to mention the relentless and sometimes pitiless public scrutiny to which you are subjected - makes the work of judges and lawyers today very hard indeed,» he said.

Acknowledging that the American system of advanced learning, with its openness, diversity, freedom from suffocating ideology and unmatched vitality, is the envy of the world, Boyer, through extensive research, nevertheless confirms what every informed observer already knows: «the undergraduate college, the very heart of higher learning, is a troubled institution» (p. 2) One's first thought is, Here comes ammunition for the next barrage by William Bennett!

Well - informed observers have estimated this number for England at 70,000.»

The Centre's location in the United Kingdom and Europe enables it to look through the lens of the «informed observer», and provides a perspective somewhat different from the range of voices in the debate elsewhere.

Compared to just 48 hours ago Brown has less authority; a less impressive Cabinet (Hutton, Purnell and Blears are better than their replacements); lots of ministers who will need months to get on top of their briefs; a more disunited parliamentary party; and, crucially, less respect from all informed observers.

One potential of the new arrangement, as some informed observers suggest, is that only one?not all — of the PIs on a project will need the expensive resources and long - term stability that universities have traditionally provided to faculty members competing for grants.

Yet it is precisely the nation's overproduction of Ph.D. scientists, augmented by tens of thousands of foreign Ph.D. s already working as postdocs, that has made science careers less attractive than other careers the ablest young Americans aspire to, believe a number of informed observers.

Guillaume Pinard is an informed observer of art and cultural artefacts — of which he scans appearances and hidden meanings.

Informed observers will recognize this stance as one with its own ancestry in modern and contemporary art.

Soon, when someone calls a person a global warming skeptic or climate change denier, informed observers will come to see it as conclusive proof that the abuser knows nothing about climate or scientific method.

They inevitably appear to be the collective judgment of numerous well - informed observers and sources, but frequently they are little more than the massive repetition of a few sample points of opinion across the echo - chamber of the professional news media and the blogosphere.

And in Porter v Magill [2001] UKHL 67, [2002] 1 All ER 465 Lord Hope gave us the modern definition of apparent bias, ie whether the fair - minded and informed observer would conclude that there was a real possibility of bias.

We are also given a more penetrating profile of the mysterious, complex (but increasingly ubiquitous) fair - minded and informed observer.

Lord Hope in Gillies v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2006] UKHL 2, [2006] 1 All ER 731 gave a valuable outline of the fair - minded and informed observer, pointing out that while he wasn't complacent, neither was he «unduly sensitive or suspicious».

Jackson J concluded that in the light of the guidance given in the authorities, a fair - minded and informed observer, having regard to the identified facts, would conclude that there was a real possibility of bias or predetermination on the part of the planning committee.

However, the Court of Appeal held that the fair - minded and informed observer would not conclude that there was a real possibility that M was biased if there was non-disclosure.

The claimant sought to set aside the arbitral award for serious irregularity giving rise to substantial injustice (under section 68 of the Act), claiming that a fair - minded and informed observer would conclude that there was a real possibility of unconscious bias.

The advantage is that any one individual could have had one good or bad experience with a lawyer, but through the research which Chambers conducts you are getting the benefit of a wider network of informed observers.

It must then ask whether those circumstances would lead a fair - minded and informed observer to conclude that there was a real possibility, or a real danger, the two being the same, that the tribunal was biased.»