Sentences with phrase «justification for using»

There is and was no justification for using «30 year rolling averages» and «30 years» was falsely asserted to be a «magical number» so there is no justifiable reason to suggest «a starting point somewhere around 1983».

Therefore, I see no justification for using observed values of those aspects to adjust model - predicted warming to correct model biases relating to those aspects, which is in effect what BC17 does.

Their justification for using SST in place of air temperature is that there is «more useful data and smaller sampling errors»?!?? As a long - time sailor and commercial fisherman, I can assure you that sea and air temperatures are often quite different.

So I don't think there is any valid justification for using the confidence / credible intervals you produce.

After continuing to be bit puzzled about Parker's justification for using the calm / windy versus Tmin relationship trends as a measure of UHI changes over time, I went back and reviewed Steve M's comments (see below at bottom of post) introducing the «Parker 2006: An Urban Myth?»

A justification for using a 45 dBA sound level criterion for wind turbine projects.

As I explained before, there is no justification for using anything other than a linear trend to fit the UAH data — the correlation coefficients show no significant improvement as a result of putting in the additional fitting parameters for a polynomial trend.

There is no justification for using words like «moral bankruptcy» or claiming certainty of future harm when there is no certainty.

You state «a more justifiable upper bound would be 0.35 - 0.4, given the limited amount of data available)» but there's no justification for using an upper bound here.

Thus there is no rational justification for using climate model forecasts to determine public policy,» he added.

While this methodology doesn't eliminate your point that the trends from different periods in the observed record (or from different observed datasets) fall at various locations within our model - derived 95 % confidence range (clearly they do), it does provide justification for using the most recent data to show that sometimes (including currently), the observed trends (which obviously contain natural variability, or, weather noise) push the envelop of model trends (which also contain weather noise).

This is how I would act, but there is justification for using RBC points for this flight as well.

With mutual fund assets passing the $ 10 trillion mark and growing steadily, critics of this fee are seriously questioning the justification for using it.

Josephine Quintaville of Comment on Reproductive Ethics, a pro-life public interest group, said there was no scientific or ethical justification for using embryonic stem cells over adult stem cells.

Besides, there's plenty of justification for using the «gravity» shorthand.

«There's no justification for using images of that tragic day in a cheap political ad, especially when it causes more pain to so many families who lost loves ones on 9/11.

He continued, «Thus, the creation of a free market, concealing economic and geographical borders, would erode the justification for using war as the quickest avenue to wealth and power, and lessen its appeal.

Following these deaths the government promised «lessons will be learned» and overhauled the rules so that «good order and discipline» was no longer a justification for using restraint on children in custody.

In particular, the proposal pivots on the prohibition of the mass prophylactic application of antibiotics and the mandatory justification for using antibiotics in the absence of animal infections.

For Augustine, the most potent justification for using force is to protect the innocent.

Whenever an institution decides to use an attribute as input for an algorithm that may have disparate impact risk, counsel should prepare detailed business justifications for using the particular attribute, and document the business reasons for not using alternatives.

Recovery of that which has been wrongly taken and punishment of evildoing are not explicitly named as justifications for the use of armed force by states in international law, but arguably they have been subsumed into the concept of self - defense: the former being recast as defense against an armed attack still in progress, as in the recovery of Kuwait from Iraq in 1991, the latter being recast as the right of retaliation.

As one whose professional career has focused on the development and restraints on the initiation of war and the conduct of war, and one who, moreover, holds the deepest moral justification for use of armed force in the service of justice, I clearly belong among the constituency supporting war crimes proceedings.

Most Rev Justin Welby says there is «justification for the use of armed force on humanitarian grounds»... More

Because the «government» has raw power over us such power does not establish any justification for their use of that power to suppress or deny God given «rights» or privileges.

While the most important current explicit justification for the use of active management is the reduction in cesarean section rates, an analysis of the components of active management for their ability to lower cesarean section rates is quite revealing.

In a previous post, I considered the possibility of a (collective) self defence justification for the use of force in response to a use of chemical weapons.

«There is no reasonable justification for the use of indefinite detention,» Naomi McAuliffe, Amnesty International's Scotland programme director, says.

There were a number of justifications for using ability grouping in the first years of school, including:

Operating Administrations (OAs) desiring to use a provision or a clause on a standard basis shall submit a request containing a copy of the clause (s), justification for its use, and evidence of legal counsel review to the Office of the Senior Procurement Executive in accordance with (TAR) 48 CFR 1201.304 for possible inclusion in the TAR.

We're treated to five - sentence stories about Nelson picking his nose in church until he bled, or justifications for using drugs through profanity - laced recollections.

Unfortunately, there is little scientific justification for the use of L - lysine, explaining why your cat's symptoms were showing only slight improvement.

Manuscripts reporting use of a euthanasia method (s) classified as unacceptable by the American Veterinary Medical Association or use of an anesthesia method (s) that is widely prohibited (e.g., chloral hydrate, ether, chloroform) must include at the time of initial submission, scientific justification for use in the specific study design, as well as confirmation of approval for specific use from their animal research ethics committee.

Next, Winn's expert panel of researchers, veterinarians and cat fanciers and advocates complete an extensive review of the justification for the use of animals in the research.

We will have to find other justifications for its use.

I mention all this because you seem to think that integrals over regions of varying size are somehow involved in a justification for use of Jeffreys» prior.

I can appreciate trying to save all the work spent on acquiring the proxy information, but the continual justification for its use borders on the ridiculous.

In my opinion, the justification for the use of international legal sources in the context of Charter interpretation is rather straightforward, and indeed is well accepted in our legal culture.

Scenes from Abu Ghraib remind us that remaining silent in the face of torture and justifications for its use is not an option.

From Sticks to Flowers: Guidelines for Child Protection Professionals Working With Parents Using Scripture to Justify Corporal Punishment Vieth (2014) William Mitchell Law Review, 40 (3) Presents information to help child protection professionals approach parents who cite religious justifications for the use of corporal punishment that potentially rises to the level of child abuse.

Not exact matches

«Forget the money, forget the fines, this is about making an institution heel,» Cramer said, adding that the government is using events like the London Whale trading debacle as justification for its actions.

If there were widespread agreement that organic foods really were ethically better, there would be some justification for having government use legislation to drive non-organic foods from the market.

Oddly, Yellen avoided using this threat as justification for the increase.

When your perfectionism gets out of control, using hard work as the justification for the unnecessary pain and suffering you endure is easy.

Mr. Mulcair has used polluter pay as a justification for measures like cap - and - trade and more recently for increased vigilance with respect to reclamation liabilities.

But in the memo, he also uses Facebook's goal to connect people as justification for «questionable contact importing practices» (his words), along with «all the subtle language that helps people stay searchable by friends.»

Given the company's silence, it's hard to guess just what justification they might give for providing services that are likely to be used for repressive purposes.

We should also have been given the forecast of the Department of Finance and justification for not using it as the basis for budget planning instead of an «average».

Third, the justification for the increase in the lapse is done using the Estimates spending data.

Instead, Facebook has used Cambridge Analytica as an example of abuse it's trying to combat, and as a justification for cracking down on developers both malicious and benign around the world.