Sentences with phrase «little firm evidence»

It says: «the number of free schools inspected so far is still quite small and so provide little firm evidence on performance so far.»

Despite all this, there is little firm evidence that the charity sector is a pit of corruption and financial self - interest, operating amid a culture of sexual abuse.

While income did decrease, little firm evidence exists to confirm withholding as a major or long - term tactic of church members.

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Not all powerful business families implode: When Paul Desmarais died last year, his sons, Paul Jr. and André, succeeded in dividing responsibilities over the vast financial services firm with little evidence of acrimony.

Meanwhile, there's little evidence that low rates are actually boosting the sort of corporate investment that would help stimulate faster growth, though there is plenty of evidence that firms are using cheap money to buy back their own stock.

Barnett contends that the criticisms of a strong patent - rights system overlook recent empirical evidence and have overestimated the impact and scope of problems including «patent trolls» (firms that own patents but do not manufacture products), «royalty stacks» (the total demands of multiple intellectual property holders for remuneration leave too little revenue left for the manufacturer), and «patent thickets» (complex and conflicting legal claims that increase transaction costs for manufacturers).

Many firms and agricultural scientists have opposed mandatory labeling, arguing it suggests GM ingredients may not be safe; there is little scientific evidence for that position, they say.

It's a bit cheap, given that there's no evidence or even likelihood, that actual climate scientists are responsible for this hoax, to say that jumping to very firm conclusions on very little evidence, and indeed fraudulently improving the evidence that doesn't quite show what you want it to, are characteristic of one side of this debate rather than the other.

It's partly a function of the way the question was asked and the list of possible answers, but there's little evidence here of the concern for the business of the law firm itself.

Legal Aid Practitioners Group director Richard Miller says: «The evidence shows that the Birmingham and Liverpool PDS offices performed worse in quality terms than the average of all private practice firms in their region, while the other offices performed only a little better than average.

* «The Committee accepts that there is little concrete evidence yet about law firm attitudes toward hiring the graduates, but the perceptions of candidates themselves reveals a deeply held view about which pathway is preferable.»