Sentences with phrase «little evidence of direct»

The observed damage in vicinity of the Tentative World Heritage site in Raqqa appears to be different from that of the other sites in the analysis, according to the report, with little evidence of direct military conflict.

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But Canadian officials expressed skepticism, noting that the war had been grinding on and that «there may be little reliable evidence to gather» and that «organizers of whatever (improvised explosive device) cell (which) supported and directed the dead bomber have been killed» by special forces.

Every successful advance of the technological revolution has been spun, with little direct opposition, as further evidence of the nominalistic nature of the universe, the individualistic nature of man and the meaninglessness of metaphysics.

One has little direct evidence to go on, mainly his discussion of the sixth constant of externality, The Community of Nature (PNK 78f).

On the stand, Ziskis was able to reveal little of his evidence because, he alleges, «all the questions were directed around what I wanted to say.»

Because the US is so polarized politically, there is very little chance that a Republican controlled House of Representatives would choose to impeach a Republican President even if there were overwhelming evidence that he had accepted a direct bribe from the Russian government (such as, for hypothetical example, a 19 % interest in the Russian gas company Rosneft) in return for promulgating policies favorable to the Russians, let alone confirmation of the allegations that his Presidential campaign had coordinated election strategy and tactics with the Russians.

«Several studies and clinical evidence suggest AIM2 functions as a tumor suppressor, but until now, we've had very little direct evidence to explains how this occurs,» said Justin E. Wilson, PhD, the study's first author and a postdoctoral fellow at UNC Lineberger, the UNC School of Medicine Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Department of Genetics.

While little is known about any direct physiological effects of sonar waves on marine species, evidence shows that whales will swim hundreds of miles, rapidly change their depth (sometime leading to bleeding from the eyes and ears), and even beach themselves to get away from the sounds of sonar.

«As the story goes with exercise - induced changes in strength, neural adaptations are contributing first with muscle growth playing a more prominent role in the latter portion of a training program: however, there is little direct evidence that this is actually true in an adult partaking in a resistance training program,» said Dr. Jeremy Loenneke, senior author of the Muscle & Nerve article.

But until his study, «there was little direct evidence for the magnitude of the problem in China».

Because of the unprecedented nature of the world Ebola epidemic, so far there is little direct evidence on the anesthetic management of EVD.

But scientists had little direct archaeological evidence to paint an exact picture of how wine was consumed during the period.

Shouldn't half a century and hundreds of studies be enough to earn Direct Instruction a little respect if education is so evidence - based?

There is little evidence to support the assumption that state policies bypass the district and have a direct impact on the behavior of principals.

«[In the absence of] any direct evidence of conspiracy, the government's complaint is necessarily based entirely on the little circumstantial evidence it was able to locate during its extensive investigation, on which it piles innuendo on top of innuendo, stretches facts and implies actions that did not occur and Macmillan denies unequivocally.»

The government, said Macmillan's response (pdf), found a «lack of direct evidence of conspiracy», and its complaint is therefore «based entirely on the little circumstantial evidence it was able to locate during its extensive investigation, on which it piles innuendo on top of innuendo, stretches facts and implies actions that did not occur and which Macmillan denies unequivocally».

As with many ancient working breeds, there is little direct evidence in word or picture to prove how the Corgi came to be; unlike the pets of aristocrats, working dogs were largely undocumented and tended to be lumped together as «curs» — not a derogatory term in those times, but simply used to distinguish ordinary canines from dogs of high breeding.

Rather than crying victim (a tactic that has met with little sympathy in the art world, as evidenced in the plethora of negative responses to the 1993 Whitney Biennial), COMBAT ZONE empowered women through direct

Moran's research - based practice is directed by a preoccupation with evidence of unknown or little - understood histories and often takes form through photography, audio, text, and found objects.

The large - scale images are not easy to place, often showing vast sections of landscape with little direct human activity — though, often evidence of human construction.

While little is known about any direct physiological effects of sonar waves on marine species, evidence shows that whales will swim hundreds of miles, rapidly change their depth (sometime leading to bleeding from the eyes and ears), and even beach themselves to get away from the sounds of sonar.

They say this» there is little direct observational evidence of the radiative impact of increasing atmospheric CO2.»

«Direct observational data on surface air temperature are sparse for the Antarctic, but none of the datasets examined provides evidence of net warming south of 60 ° S since 1979, a period during which sea - ice extent increased a little.»

Our great learned societies realised just how little there was to the evidence, that it was manipulated along with the peer review process, as was the IPCC AR4 assessment, that there was even evidence of inventing data and further evidence of attempts at thwarting the free dissemination of data and codes in direct contravention of one of the first principles of the scientific method, that of reproducibility and / or falsification.

The lack of such a trend would say very little about the 1970 - 2005 rise unless it showed some kind of long - period oscillation of the sort Gray seems to wish was there, but evidence of such a cycle would be big scientific news indeed (perhaps as big as any implied direct refutation of Emanuel).

The report «Fact - Based Regulation for Environmental Protection in Shale Gas Development» was released in February during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Vancouver, British Columbia, and suggested there is little or no evidence of a direct connection between groundwater contamination and hydraulic fracturing, which involves the injection of water, sand and chemicals to release natural gas from shale formations deep underground.

We also find little direct evidence that tropical forests should not be able to respond to increases in [CO2] and argue that the magnitude and pattern of increases in forest dynamics across Amazonia observed over the last few decades are consistent with a [CO2]- induced stimulation of tree growth.»

Parental mental illness Relatively little has been written about the effect of serious and persistent parental mental illness on child abuse, although many studies show that substantial proportions of mentally ill mothers are living away from their children.14 Much of the discussion about the effect of maternal mental illness on child abuse focuses on the poverty and homeless - ness of mothers who are mentally ill, as well as on the behavior problems of their children — all issues that are correlated with involvement with child welfare services.15 Jennifer Culhane and her colleagues followed a five - year birth cohort among women who had ever been homeless and found an elevated rate of involvement with child welfare services and a nearly seven - times - higher rate of having children placed into foster care.16 More direct evidence on the relationship between maternal mental illness and child abuse in the general population, however, is strikingly scarce, especially given the 23 percent rate of self - reported major depression in the previous twelve months among mothers involved with child welfare services, as shown in NSCAW.17

Many economists suspect that downward nominal wage rigidities in ongoing labor contracts are an important source of employment fluctuations over the business cycle but there is little direct empirical evidence on this conjecture.