Sentences with phrase «insists against all evidence»

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Yet, against all reason and evidence, there are those who insist that the world is flat or that they have seen Elvis Presley or been captured by space aliens.

A case in point was when the Special Development Initiatives Ministry GH cents 800,000 website issue came up, he was all over trying to do damage control, insisting against all the available evidence that, it was rather GH cents 80,000.

The deputy Majority Leader, Alfred Agbesi, insisted that Parliament was not under pressure to immediately take into account the evidence presented against Oti Bless before approving his nomination.

The court had insisted it could not allow the deportation of Al - Qaida's «spiritual leader in Europe» to Jordan to stand trial while they suspected evidence used against him might have been obtained by torture.

Ajibola stated that the accused persons were not remorseful by still insisting that they don't know anything about the case notwithstanding the overwhelming evidence against them.

[94] New York Post columnist Fredric U. Dicker confronted Paladino at a meeting of the New York State Business Council later that evening and insisted that Paladino produce evidence about any accusations against Cuomo, but Paladino then alleged the Post had followed and photographed Paladino's daughter several days prior to the appearance, and demanded that Dicker not do it again or he would «take him out».

One old friend of mine insists, against all the evidence to the contrary, that the Health Secretary is actually a golem - that is, an artificial man created (as Jewish folklore has it) from inanimate matter.

The question for Moll is whether or not she'll help Pascal, who insists he's innocent but doesn't have an alibi for the night of the girl's disappearance, as the evidence keeps stacking against him.

Figuring out who the rapist is among a host of wily suspects is hardly any more difficult than solving a Scooby Doo caper, but Verhoeven and screenwriter David Birke continually insist on dedicating a chunk of screentime to a silly campaign of misdirection where so much evidence is stacked so loftily against an employee in Michèle's video game company that anyone with even a cursory knowledge of mystery storytelling couldn't possibly fall for the trick.

Nonetheless, Cabral now appears to be well on his way to joining Cesar Millan and Victoria Stilwell among the pantheon of dog trainers favored by shelter personnel and rescuers who insist on believing, against the weight of centuries of evidence and experience and soaring numbers of deaths and disfigurements inflicted by «rescued» dogs, that pit bulls in particular can be trained out of high reactivity and impulsive aggression, and can be made «safe» despite histories of dangerous behavior.

That's probably why, against both evidence and common sense, alarmists insist that CO2 concentrations have remained static at right around 280 ppmv for millenia.

They also insist that the greater - than - normal increase in Antarctic sea ice offers no evidence against human - caused global warming.

Although multiple studies demonstrate that the overwhelming majority of climate scientists conclude that this exceptional recent warming is caused by humans, obstinate deniers will continue to insist, against all evidence, that the consensus on climate change is crumbling.

Apple has insisted that the judge presiding over its patent trial against Samsung should punish the Galaxy phone maker for its decision to leak to the public evidence excluded from the proceedings.