Sentences with phrase «little real evidence»

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The reason Keynesianism got such a boost post-crisis was not for any real - world examples of its success — the list of its failures, by contrast, is lengthy — but because of the assertion, accepted far too quickly with far too little evidence, that monetary policy, at the fabled Zero Lower Bound (interest rates of near zero) had lost its effectiveness.

Although there is little evidence to support this assumption, we estimate how a reversion to historical real yields will impact failure rates.

Early advocates of these type of tax cuts argued that lower tax rates would increase economic activity and thereby revenues. However, thereâ $ ™ s little evidence changes in tax rates, except in more extreme cases, have a major impact on real economic activity.

However, thereâ $ ™ s little evidence changes in tax rates, except in more extreme cases, have a major impact on real economic activity.

Real scientists go where logic and evidence take them, and there is no evidence, and precious little logic if any, to steer a scientist to any god.

Not necessarily in tone or by being insulting (thankfully there's been relatively little of that from both sides), but in that we require and unashamedly DEMAND real, objective evidence.

Even if Jesus were a real person, there is no evidence of his divinity, no evidence of a god, no evidence of your god, and very little to support most bible stories.

There is little evidence that the claims have been thoroughly investigated, and signs that the Church (which has been feeble over several cases of real and proven abuse) wishes to appear decisive and effective to save itself from the fate that has overtaken the Roman Catholics.

Little argument is offered, alternative positions are rarely mentioned and never analyzed nor refuted, no real evidence for his positive proposals is provided, there is page after page of blunt assertion, and after the first chapter I simply lost count of the leaps of logic which larded every section.

Despite that, there's little evidence of real character development.

It's common knowledge that Santa isn't real, and there's explicit evidence of the origins of the concept, as well as the fact that parents use it for fun and to give their kids a little sense of wonder.

Little real logic in that and all the evidence contradicts what you say... constantly blaming Wenger is just bs.

At present there is little evidence that they affected any real political changes in the current election.

«There's little real debate about this, as evidenced by Dean John Feerick, the Chairman of the last Moreland Act Commission to investigate public corruption They are empowered to investigate the Executive Branch, «not other branches of government, however.»»

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.

New Home Secretary Alan Johnson may have raised the idea in a bid to appeal to voters ahead of disastrous local and European election results for Labour, but there is very little evidence of an appetite in government for changing the voting system from first past the post to real proportional representation.

A pen - pushing desk - jockey who halts the prevalence of real justice by insisting they need a little thing called evidence that we all hate because he doesn't allow real police work like punching and stuff, check.

Much to the chagrin of Keller, though, the police are forced to release Jones after 48 hours because there is no real evidence to continue to hold him, plus they do not think he has the wits to kidnap two little girls, keep them quiet AND outwit the cops.

This sounds great, but the key is in the doing, and there is precious little evidence Washington can force real transparency.

However, while there is little evidence of rebellion, retreatism is a very real danger as it is very common in the compliant classroom.

In an analysis of the actions of Missouri's state legislature, which increased teacher pensions nine times during a ten - year period from 1991 - 2001 (netting each teacher about $ 75,000 in future benefits and imposing a $ 5.4 billion long - term liability to the state), researchers saw little evidence of any real analysis.

Although antilocks perform well on the test track, there is little evidence that they have substantially reduced real - world crashes.

We don't know just how price sensitive foreign investors might be to property in Vancouver, but we do have subjective evidence that some foreign buyers have driven up residential real estate prices very rapidly, especially in multiple bidding situations, with little concern for inherent value.

Wellink (2009) quoted a 2006 IMF report on the global real estate boom asserting that there was «little evidence -LRB-..)

For decades, Bozell has railed against violent video games, believing wholeheartedly (and with little evidence) that video games cause violence in real life.

Digging a little deeper, however, we discovered evidence of what we suspected anyway, that there is a very real, very contemporary link between the abuse of natural resources and the abuse of our fellow humans.

I am trying to make the point that what little evidence we have indicates that the real value of total climate sensitivity is indistinguishable from zero.

If we have real - world evidence that temperatures were warmer than today during most of the past 10,000 years (and also during several interglacial warm periods during the past few million years), and if we also have real - world evidence that human civilization thrived during these warmer temperatures and the warmer temperatures did not trigger so - called «tipping points» sending the planet into a climate catastrophe, then we have very little reason to believe that our presently and moderately warming temperatures are now poised to send the planet into a climate catastrophe.

the dirty little secret is that there is still no way to test the IPCC climate models for their feedback behavior,... The very fact that the 20 + climate models the IPCC tracks still span just as wide a range of feedbacks as climate models did 20 years ago is evidence by itself that the climate community still can't demonstrate what the real cloud feedbacks in the climate system are....

(The fact that they all are is conclusive evidence that there is little or no scope on real planets for changes in «greenhouse» gasses to have significant temperature effects — even if the process worked just the way the AGW theorists claim!)

John Coleman, co-founder of the Weather Channel, shocked the world and the scientific community when he claimed that there is little scientific evidence to prove that global warming is real, and that the whole thing has become nothing but a political tool that is not backed by true scientific evidence.

But this claim is discredited by University of Washington climatologist Cliff Mass, who after examining precipitation levels in the Gulf found that «[t] here is no evidence that global warming is influencing Texas coastal precipitation in the long term and little evidence that warmer than normal temperatures had any real impact on the precipitation intensity from this storm.»

The real answer lies in the constraints of the energy budget at TOA — and what little evidence there is suggests that OHC follows changes in the erergy balance at TOA quite closely.

And of perhaps even greater import (because it is a real - world observation), he reports that «although the globe is significantly warmer than it was a century ago, there is little evidence that climate change has already favored infectious diseases.»

The points you cite amount to little more than hand - waving attempts to distract from the real issues, and have only come up when they were confronted with undeniable evidence that climate change is happening at a rapid rate.

Although real concerns exist about coral mining and the big «Asian Brown Cloud» due to particulates from biomass burning and inefficient industrial processes, Hansen would like to stoke alarm due to global warming, irrespective of the evidence: «An INQUA research in 2003 found that actual sea levels in the Maldives had dropped in the 1970s and forecasts little change in the next century.»

My friends, although there's little data to back either side of this argument, I have seen no real evidence that organic consumers are flooding the aisles of Costco or Wal - Mart to get the best deals on free range chickens and organic produce.

(1) There is no evidence that the «Socratic Method» is a particularly effective pedagogical method; (2) Unlike other disciplines, the vast majority of law professors have no experience teaching, nor any education on how to effectively teach, prior to becoming law professors; (3) Using final essay exams for 100 % of a students mark, then distributing the grades on a curve, is, to be charitable, not the best way of accurately assessing and representing to future employers students» grasp of the subject matter; (4)» Teaching students to think like a lawyer», to the extent anyone even knows what that is supposed to mean, is made difficult by the fact that most tenured law professors have little if any real experience in the practice of law themselves.

There is little doubt that most judges would prefer to have real time reporting which would convert the vive voce evidence into text and instantaneously send the text to the judge's computer where he / she could annotate the text as opposed to having to make notes of the vive voce evidence.

``... the distinction between independent expert evidence assisting a jury to find facts and usurping the jury's function [was] likely to be blurred in a majority of cases of rape... [W] here the facts of cases vary a great deal and a decision has to be case specific, general expert evidence that can not focus on the credibility of the individual case would be of little real value.»

Relying primarily on questionable surveys and priming «experiments» that have little relevance in the real word, social psychology often ignores or rejects biological and genetic models of sexuality, where there are overwhelming evidence that sexual orientation is formed in utero and is highly stable trait, resistant to centuries of attempts to force change through barbaric methods, such as aversion therapy.

So far, there's little evidence that regional banks» commercial real estate loans are distressed — and, in fact, they've been a source of strong profitability at the banks.