Sentences with phrase «lack of evidence at»

It's also another fact that the overwhelming number of criminal charges laid by the SIU either result in a not guilty or non-committal for lack of evidence at prelim.

But for symptom - free babies, he said, the old recommendations are just too much to ask of parents based on the lack of evidence at this time.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Eventually, she found him at a local prison, where he was held for three years before he was released for lack of evidence.

One study provides evidence consistent with one explanation of the overall lack of strong findings: optimal board structures may vary by firm size, with smaller firms benefiting from a unified chair / CEO position, with the clarity of leadership that structure provides, and larger firms benefiting from the extra monitoring that an independent chair may provide given the greater risk of «agency costs» at large companies.

Still, when you couple this absence of increased credit with the lack of evidence that QE worked the way the Fed thought it would, you would be forgiven for wondering whether QE had any significant impact on output and employment at all.

Despite the political pressure, he told colleagues at one of the meetings, they could not bring a case if the evidence was lacking.

The fossil record which shows millions of years of stable species, then an explosion of necessarily mutations, all occurring at the precise necessary time required for complex organisms to develop, and ALL escaping fossilization «the sudden appearance of most species in the geologic record and the lack of evidence of substantial gradual change in most species — from their initial appearance until their extinction — has long been noted, including by Charles Darwin who appealed to the imperfection of the record as the favored explanation» — Wikipedia

As consummate victims, we lay ourselves at the feet of our fellows, exhibiting our lack of achievement as evidence of their failure, hoping to wring from their sense of conscience what we must assume, by the very logic of our claim, lies beyond our individual capacities to attain, all the while bemoaning how limited that sense of conscience seems to be.

considering that theological beliefs are irrational (that is, they obtain despite a lack of evidence) why hold specific religious / theological views at all?

If we were talking about unicorns wouldn't it be more reasonable to assume that the lack of evidence suggests that they're imaginary, and not just really good at hiding?

With the God of Israel, it is not lack of evidence that proved he was God but the open fulfillment of prophecy that we can still see today, right now, this very minute as you look at your clock.

I do agree however, that the stunning lack of evidence to support a god makes it at least, «fantastically unlikely» that there is one, but I'm fine leaving it at that.

That order was contested at a hearing on May 13, 2014 [court transcripts available], and that restraining was dismissed and vacated for lacking evidence and not meeting the legal burden of proof [Hennepin County Case # 27 - CO-13-8209, filed May 16, 2014].

What a giant leap to go from an atheist (lack of belief in a deity for lack of evidence) to not only a belief in a deity but the Christian god and then become a member of a human created cult and Catholic at that.

All religious attempts at rational arguments must instead use dishonest forms of argumentation due to that total lack of evidence.

The best and most important evidence for the currency of the eschatological Kingdom of God expectation at the time of Jesus and its lack of definite form is the Kaddish prayer of the ancient synagogue.

but when you look at the evidence (or lack there of), the chance of a god (or that my left nut is god) is so miniscule that it's not worth considering.

There continues to be a complete and total lack of any evidence for any gods or «creation»... nothing at all anywhere.

My opinion as far as the lack of contemporary evidence of Jesus is that at the time Jesus was not looked at by most of the religious people as a spiritual leader, but more as a threat to Judaism.

For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor of the pancreationist, panexperientialist view that the actual world is made up exhaustively of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack of complete determinism seems to hold even at the most elementary level of nature; that bacteria seem to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears to be no place to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature to be most fundamentally a complex of events (not of enduring substances).

Religious beliefs certainly can, and given the complete lack of actual evidence for any supernatural aspect of religion, they ought to be questioned at every opportunity.

Capital punishment's lack of demonstrated superiority as a deterrent (the evidence for its effectiveness being at best mixed), the capacity of society to protect itself equally well by permanently imprisoning those who are currently being executed (which is possible at limited marginal cost, especially when one takes into account the cost of the extended trial procedures and interminable appeals and reviews which usually accompany capital punishment)-- all these points are important, but their utility is chiefly as rebuttal arguments in response to the empirically weak but emotionally strong claims made on behalf of capital punishment.

At first glance, this skillful biographer would seem to have chosen an impossible subject in Jane Austen as well; not so much for dearth of evidence as for lack of drama.

The lack of female speakers at Christian events is evidence of gender injustice in the Church says Natalie Collins More

I looked at the claims based on the merit of the evidence provided, and found it lacking completely.

I am not an agnostic because I don't think it's very honest when faced with the lack of evidence for God to say «Well both sides of the debate are at a stand still!

but i didn't state anything example — i stated that the theory of evolution is yet to be proved and so with that i agree that due to that lacking it is equal to the theory of god... the only thing i said which is cemented truth for anything is that we don't know what the real answer is... and by stating ideas as facts serves no real purpose but a selfish one... lets call it an ease - ment on the inner self, the mind can now be at peace with the hope that when i die i get to live yet again... full belief in this is insane without evidence.

Being told that you will suffer for all eternity at the behest of a supposedly loving and just being for the crime of not groveling before it due to a lack of evidence = PRETTY DARNED OFFENSIVE.

The continual breakdown in catechesis and the lack of formation can be quite clearly seen in evidence amongst students at university level.

Any opposition that a heliocentric view provoked at the time was due to a lack of scientific evidence and was from fellow natural philosophers rather than Church authority.

The lack of female speakers at Christian events is evidence of gender injustice in the Church says Natalie... More

At the end of the day, the prosecution's case was weak to begin with and I believe that the verdict of «not guilty» was the correct one due to a lack of evidence.

«NATRE are encouraged to see evidence that some OFSTED inspectors are again looking at RE / RS provision and outcomes in schools where there are concerns about the lack of GCSE entries.»

Then there is the tantalizing lack of historic evidence to back up the existence of Jesus at all.

Lacking any corroborative evidence, it is at best uncertain that the promise to the penitent robber represents Jesus» conception of the future life.

Like Aarong, I didn't think they could come back — not because they lacked the heart but because they lacked the firepower to score 6 runs in 2 at bats which I don't think was unreasonable given the evidence (they'd only scored 6 or more runs in 5 of the season's first 43 games).

I wouldn't take this rumor as truth due to the lack of evidence, I will point to how Wenger has looked to offload players at 30 when Arsenal have backed him, if Silent Stan is actually going to get the players Wenger wants this time round then I would think Wenger is looking at top YOUNGISH talent who can do the job for us now.

At the moment of birth, newborns have an instinctive fear of falling that can be seen in the Moro reflex — large grasping gestures in response to a lack of support underneath the body — which is primitive evidence of a burgeoning fear system designed for survival.

Going back to the content of the above article, the ideas relating to «re-patterning» (defined as «creating the birth that should have happened») and encouraging a baby to relive their birth trauma with the alleged effect of healing are highly questionable, at best, and unethical, at worst, due to the lack of evidence to support this practice.

One of the barriers to improving maternal and child nutrition is the lack of consistent, evidence - based dietary guidelines targeted specifically at pregnant and lactating women, infants, and young children.

«The lack of any documents or testimony evidencing Ms. Bruno's duties on behalf of the [Foundation] coupled with the statements of the witnesses who all almost universally stated that they rarely ever saw Ms. Bruno at the office supports a determination that there is reasonable cause to believe that Ms. Bruno was afforded what amounted to a «no - show job.

We find it very bizarre that the Hon. Attorney - General, Ms Gloria Akufo, who assured the entire citizenry of her commitment to fairness and strict adherence to ethical principles at her vetting not too long ago, will claim that she exercised the said constitutional discretion on grounds merely that there was a lack of evidence to prosecute the case in question when indeed, the Siting Judge, Court Clerks, Court Bailiffs, Court Warrant Officers (CWOs), Journalists as well as notable public figures in whose presence the said court was physically attacked and the accused persons freed, are alive and available to be interviewed and evidence taken from same.

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has welcomed a recommendation in a report by the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee that the «self - employed» should be given at least «worker» employment status unless the engager of their labour can prove otherwise.1 This is a recommendation that LITRG made in written evidence to a separate inquiry.2 LITRG believes that the denial of employment rights to people working in the «gig economy» and the exploitation of other flexible workers regarding their taxes share a common cause: the workers» own lack of knowledge, their reluctance to challenge their treatment because they lack confidence or just need the work and the businesses involved apparently having little fear of action being taken against them by public bodies.

And let's not forget that the National Bullying Helpline has only confirmed that it has received one or two phone calls from staff at Number 10 and there is little, if any, real evidence that the prime minister is connected to this at all, so we are largely dealing with a lack of real information.

The committee's recommendations lashed out at the embattled judge for abandoning the petition for non-appearance, lack of evidence as well as premising her petition on rumours and hearsay.

Findings from a study into Crohn's disease, led by William G. Kerr, Ph.D., of SUNY Upstate Medical University, and his collaborators at the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, provide the first evidence that patients with debilitating inflammatory bowel disease lack sufficient quantities of a protein that comes from the SHIP1 gene.

He nonetheless firmly believed that the eye did evolve in that way, despite a lack of evidence for intermediate forms at the time.

Burton Andersen, chief of infectious diseases at the University of Illinois, Chicago, agrees that further research into the nature of the Yanomami's lack of an immune response would bolster the scientists» evidence: «It's certainly possible they [the Yanomami] never evolved any special genetic background to protect themselves.»

Where Neanderthals are concerned, Binford pops up again in his familiar «Rent - a-sceptic» role; but it is regrettable that the book gives further exposure to his bizarre notions, based on the flimsiest of evidence, about males and females living largely separate lives, with no semblance of a close family, as well as his erroneous claim that a lack of fish - bones shows that Neanderthals were inferior to «fully modern man» at exploiting this resource.