Sentences with phrase «least claiming a point»

Rovers will, however, do their utmost to halt Rafael Benitez's side and they will be very confident of at least claiming a point as Blackburn have been a typically hard side to overcome at Ewood Park this season.

Not exact matches

But the «ethical» claim for the oilsands is a serious stretch — at least if it's supposed to point to a clear difference in moral status.

Among the evidence that would shift our expectations in this regard would be: material equity market deterioration, further weakness in regional Fed and purchasing managers indices, a slowing in real personal income, a spike in new claims for unemployment toward the 340,000 level, an abrupt drop in consumer confidence about 10 - 20 points below its 12 - month average, and at least some amount of slowing in employment growth and aggregate hours worked.

Julie, as you correctly point out, has offered support for her claims, and the principle figures in this mess have answered with nothing more than outright dismissal and disdain for her, and that — at least to my mind — gives the lie to their protestations of innocence, whether before the fact or after.

For some, credulity to the point of foolhardiness (at least when judging their particular claims) is the definition of an open mind.

At least you'll be able to add it to your repertoire of «things to point to» to claim science is an «incorrect belief system».

Less persuasive, to me at least, is the claim that this probably continued until 1931, the year in which Lewis converted to Christianity (and would now think a relation with a married woman to be wrong) Wilson's way of making this point is, however, an instance of a very undesirable trait in his writing: the tendency to assert indirectly and to be glib while seeming to eschew it: «It would be far too glib to suggest that he consciously made the second change, to adopt Christianity, merely to give himself an excuse to abandon sexual relations with Mrs. Moore, whatever the nature of those relations had been.»

To point out the unrecognized similarity of Leclerc's «new» proposals of 1972 and the position espoused by Hartshorne at least since 1936 is, on the one hand, to claim originality for Hartshorne and, on the other, to indicate that the independent and thorough work of Leclerc adds to the credibility of Hartshorne's speculations.

(or at least for the sake of this point being argued, the validity of the claims about homosexuality?)

With Ricky Silberman's assistance he reassembled his brief of facts and allegations, suppressed disconfirming evidence, strong - armed a hostile witness, and blasted Mayer and Abrahamson's book to the point of denying at least one claim that he knew was true: «Up to this point in my career, even when I fell short, I had always believed I was pursuing accurate information.

Food and flavor companies have been quietly reformulating products and sourcing ingredients that can carry a natural claim for at least a decade, Leffingwell points out.

Not only do Arsenal have to claim all three points from our next Premier League game, and all of the ones coming up at least until we travel to face the current pace setters Chelsea at the start of February, but the Gunners will be expected to sweep past the EPL strugglers Swansea City without too much trouble.

They'd rather wait for the one time it fails so they can bash You blame the manager for being favourist yet a fellow blogger praising a player he previously bashed is called being two faced You kill Ramsey for a blind pass attempting to enter the opposition final third yet you won't blame Sanchez for turning over the ball in a pointless dribble with three free team mates You kill metersacker for deflecting a shot into his own net but won't touch kos for getting out of the way of a shot he could have sufficiency blocked You claim with no substantial proof that arteta, mert, Ramsey, can not lead arsenal anywhere substantial yet they have each at a point been a massive cause for stability and progress when called upon Even after reading this comment, you will ignore the fact that kos was awful until partnerd with mert, our defensive mid with song leaked more goals than the one with arteta and we've struggled to win without him at least until late last season.

We all know from last season that Blackburn are a team that can go on lengthy runs without a win so it's penetrative that Rovers at least pick up a point against West Ham in a bid to kick - start their season although, at home, Blackburn should be claiming all three points.

But seeing as they won't be coming off a huge Champions League win a few days earlier and playing their third game in a week's time, you would at least think Juventus will claim all three points against their lesser - known Bianconeri bretheran.

I've had that happen any number of times, I made a claim about something I «knew,» someone challenged me, I looked for a source to back up my point and discovered I was actually wrong, or at least much less right than I thought.

Danny Hakim at The Times pointed out today that while the internal memo from Linda Lacewell does seem to include a passage that backs up the initial claims first report by The TU in 2007 — that then - Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno did use a state helicopter for non-official use at least once.

Take the points yourself and use linear least squares to make a linear function, which will disprove your baseless claims.

The first two points are obvious, and for the third, they claim it is system affected the least by strategical voting.

The International Bird Research Rescue Center, one of two organisations heading up the treatment of oiled birds in the Gulf, claims that 50 to 80 per cent of the birds treated survive at least to the point of where they can be released back into the wild.

If you have valid points, if you wish to teach people healthful strategies and warn of ill advised ones, then linking to the references if already on your site is the very least you can do to validate your claims, educate and put others minds at ease.

If making a claim for the «majorness» of Let the Sunshine In, we might point to its philosophical pedigree, or its class - consciousness — Fabrice drips poison into Isabelle's ear to undermine her belief in a possible future with Blain's working - class character, Sylvain, and, in perhaps the least sympathetic moment of a character given many of them, Isabelle carries this load of venom home to pass along to her lover rather than suffering through its effects herself.

Amid reports that overweight pupils underperform academically — data obtained from at least six studies by Scottish PHD student Anne Martin show that children who are obese at 11 achieve lower than average marks in maths, science and English at 16 — and findings that there is a higher incidence of serious childhood obesity in London than New York, figures like the London Health Commission's Lord Darzi are claiming that the issue is «at breaking point.»

Advocates point to successes, such as the Montgomery County, Maryland, school district, which claims measurable, albeit modest, academic improvements, at least in the short term, in reading and math for low - income elementary - school students sent to predominantly middle - class schools through a program of dispersed low - income housing.

Most notably, claims that technology would transform or even reform social studies teaching and learning seem, from today's vantage point, misguided or, at the very least, premature.

Plus, with claimed economy figures 23 / 31mpg for the city and highway respectively for the rear - wheel drive models (or 22/28 for Q50 2.0 t variants that comes with the optional all - wheel drive system), the Infiniti is fairly frugal — though it's worth pointing out that the like - for - like BMW 3 Series, Mercedes - Benz C - Class and Audi A4 are, on paper at least, able to go that bit further per gallon of fuel.

In other words, even if they don't think they'll end up paying the claim, there's a good chance they'll still pay for a lawyer to defend you against it, at least up to the point where they are entirely certain there is no coverage.

Birds and Cats FWS claims that «free - roaming cats kill at least one billion birds every year in the U.S., representing one of the largest single sources of human - influenced mortality for small native wildlife,» [1] supporting the assertion with just three sources, one of which is Rich Stallcup's 1991 article from the Observer, a publication of the Point Reyes Bird Observatory.

If he's right (and yes, I noticed the link to research that he isn't, but this is for sake of argument), then his method should, or at least plausible could, absent other mitigating factors, lead to increases in carbon storage in those grasslands — not necessarily at the scale he claimed on TED, but conceivably pointed in the right direction.

I guess if the IPCC was making claims that the uncertainty was due to round - off error in the least significant digit then you'd have a point.

The effect was to let the public be deluded about such things, by those who hoped that the public would rise up and demand politicial action, while the climate scientists could comfortably sit back, let the wild claims appear to be part of their famously «settled» science, knowing that if the «predictions» failed, they could point to their refereed journal papers that made no such explicit claims, or at least none with claimed certainty, thus achieving sensational scare stories but with plausible deniability.

443: (Bob) I take your point with serious consideration but the claim about 100 years is not true of natural gas and peak oil is not for at least another 50 - 60 years as discussed in last month's SA.

Skeptics are fully justified in pointing out that all to often it is the AGW proponents who are looking at singular weather events and claiming global climate conclusions seems rather ironic, at the least.

You co-opted Hansen's and others targets and say «a credible Plan requires at least two major components: an end point / target, and a series of actions / policies that will lead to the target,» and then claim that more targets, such as sharp demand reduction, are the steps.

Before anyone mentions the glaciers and the 2035 date, I'll point out the generally overlooked points: 1) The original source actually stated 2350; 2) The Indian government website stated 2035; 3) From there it went viral as 2035, it seems; 4) When it eventually wound up in the IPCC report, at least one editor objected to it in Draft 2 — Deltoid aka Tim Lambert has the details on his blogsite; 5) The IPCC editors violated their own rules on citation in that they did not trace the claim of 2035 back to the original, peer reviewed, source.

Second, far from being a damning critique of ABS (it actually notes that the claims by both proponents and opponents of ABS are overblown — a point you clearly missed), it merely concludes that in one particular respect ABS has not, at least as yet, achieved one of the possible benfits that some of its proponents have claimed - namely increased accessibility for civil litigation services for lower and middle - income legal consumers.

He also points out that at least 60 percent of plaintiff claims submitted to both the victim compensation fund and the settlement program were denied.

They reject the type of cost - effective and timely advice a litigator has given them — and although represented are often pointed to as examples of people ill - served by the «system» even though none of the studies (that at least I have seen) have allowed us to distinguish whether they got good advice relative to the nature and amount of the claim at a time that could have allowed for a successful settlement discussion.

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