Sentences with phrase «little support for»

Although the AP poll shows little support for the flat tax, a majority of those who responded did support lower or no taxes on investment income.

There was very little support for retaining use of the phrase «Indigenous peoples» as the main terminology at the national level.

A number of other interventions have been widely used including play therapy, individual insight therapy, cognitive behavioral therapies, biofeedback, and dietary interventions, but there is little support for their effectiveness in the literature.57 One recent study did inspect adherence to quality indicators for the outpatient care of ADHD, conduct disorder and major depression, including the use of behavior modification, for 813 children seen in 62 mental health clinics in California from August 1, 1998, through May 31, 1999.

We found little support for the idea that the target parent is similar in dynamics to the alienating parent.

There was little support for increases in harsh punishment and caregiver low warmth predicting subsequent elevations in BPD symptoms.

For the most part, however, we do not find this to be the case... Most notably, social fathers (overall) engage in higher levels of cooperation in parenting than biological fathers... findings provide little support for theoretical perspectives linking biology to father involvement.»

There was very little support for the arousal hypothesis, because only those who wanted short - term relationships valued kissing just prior to sex.

Thus, the adolescents are released back into the same environment, in which little support for the newly acquired skills and behavior is present.

The Review states that there continues to be «overwhelming support» for a national body to represent the interests of Indigenous peoples, «but very little support for ATSIC's current performance» with the ATSIC Board not having «discharged its advocacy and representation functions effectively».

Chicago, R. I. provides little support for respondent's case.

So why is there so little support for climate action among politicians?

E.g., research assumes greenhouse gas emissions cause warming without explicitly stating humans are the cause»... carbon sequestration in soil is important for mitigating global climate change» (4a) No position Does not address or mention the cause of global warming (4b) Uncertain Expresses position that human's role on recent global warming is uncertain / undefined «While the extent of human - induced global warming is inconclusive...» (5) Implicit rejection Implies humans have had a minimal impact on global warming without saying so explicitly E.g., proposing a natural mechanism is the main cause of global warming»... anywhere from a major portion to all of the warming of the 20th century could plausibly result from natural causes according to these results» (6) Explicit rejection without quantification Explicitly minimizes or rejects that humans are causing global warming»... the global temperature record provides little support for the catastrophic view of the greenhouse effect» (7) Explicit rejection with quantification Explicitly states that humans are causing less than half of global warming «The human contribution to the CO2 content in the atmosphere and the increase in temperature is negligible in comparison with other sources of carbon dioxide emission»»

DEBORAH AMOS: [voice - over] In Congress, there was little support for the agreements hammered out in Berlin, which would form the basis of the next round of negotiations in Kyoto.

Figure 49 is very interesting although I understand (perhaps misunderstand) there is little support for the galactic forcing explanation for the 150 Ma cycle of ice ages.

Among the Republicans who control the House of Representatives, however, there appears to be little support for keeping clean energy programs alive.

But published research has looked hard and found little support for UHI as an explanation for the warming trends observed even in the surface - station parts of the NASA, NCDC or HadCRU series.

... In light of their recent findings, Davies et al. say there is «little support for the existence of a «permanent El Niño»... that there was robust ENSO variability in past «greenhouse» episodes and that future warming will be unlikely to promote a permanent El Niño state,» which point they also emphasize in the final sentence of their abstract, where they say that their evidence for robust Late Cretaceous ENSO variability «does not support the theory of a «permanent El Niño,»» [Andrew Davies, Alan E.S. Kemp, Graham P. Weedon, John A. Barron 2012: Geology]

In conclusion, therefore, and all things considered, there would appear to be little support for the climate - alarmist claim that the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content will have severe negative impacts on the vast majority of the world's sea

If they can clearly support their hypotheses it will be interesting - but as it stands I see little support for such claims.

He also worries that there are lots of people who may not have access to chargers - «the current charging infrastructure offers little support for a larger pool of people who have both the income and the impetus to buy EVs: city dwellers who lack garages.»

See the comments in Unforced Variations; very little support for the hard reality even among climate advocates!

At present this is relatively uncommon, as there is little support for it within the dominant game engines such as Unity and Unreal.

Worth noting that even Rockstar had supported the Wii (who has had VERY little support for Nintendo, in general), with Wii releases of Bully, Manhunt 2, and....

I chose this post as the +1 because I think it's important for people to realize just how little support for singling out breeds there is — in this case, exactly zero support within the Maryland legislature.

When people lose a beloved pet, they often find themselves with little support for their loss.

Finally, this speculation is being done on a basis where renting is far cheaper than owning, leaving little support for property prices if the incomes of leveraged homeowners can't be maintained in a recession.

In summary, while hedging has generally been advantageous for equity investing over the past 11 years, evidence from simple tests provides little support for a belief that John Hussman successfully times the stock market via hedging adjustments based on his assessments of market valuation and market action.

Audiobooks on the other hand have been a hard nut to crack, until now there has been little support for the concept of Netlflix for audiobooks.

There is still very little support for reading apps and interactivity with the e-ink panel, for digital reading.

However, the front seats are flat, with little support for those long drives.

A recent PDK poll found «little support for standardized testing in contrast to the deep interest in testing by policy makers over the last two decades.»

Objective analysis of findings from controlled studies provides little support for her speculations.

OECD data show that they also pay teachers as well as other college - educated workers, while U.S. teachers earn only 60 percent of the average college graduate's wage and receive little support for their learning.

Current financial aid is not well targeted and provides little support for increasing postsecondary quality and completion rates.

There's very little support for the Republican - passed bill.

A recent survey initiated by State Board of Education Chair Donna Bahorich, and to which over 27,000 educators, members of the public, and even students responded, indicates that there is very little support for our current system of high - stakes testing.

The report also stated there was little support for the «notion that pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to succeed if they live in a country with an academically selective secondary education system», based on the OECD's definition of resilience [which measures how many pupils in the bottom quarter of socio - economic status are in the top quarter of attainment].

According to news reports, Knopf, in her official capacity, visited with school boards and school administrators across Vermont and reported back that there was little support for some of the Race to the Top policies including the effort to add more and more charter schools.

And despite what many NCLB supporters will tell you, when you break down NAEP data — as I have done — there is little support for the notion that traditionally underperforming groups, or anyone else, have done better with NCLB than without it.

The review found little support for their value in science and mathematics.

The results are mixed but provide little support for the district's decisions.

About ten years ago, at the height of optimism about the benefits of new ICTs, we discussed a similar motion and there was little support for the view that the Internet and social media might have some downsides.

Suburban areas with high - performing school districts have shown little support for vouchers, so it was surprising to have the first locally enacted voucher program come from Douglas County, a Denver suburb with one of the highest median incomes in the country.

Experience provides little support for the argument that just more clearly declaring what we want children to learn will have much impact.

As can be seen from the scattering of states into all parts of Figure 4, the data offer precious little support for the theory.

Also, one finds little support for charters in suburbia, small towns, or rural America.

We find little support for the notion that differences in resources, such as per - pupil expenditures and class size, could explain the middle - school achievement gap.

There is little support for the continued belief that we can bully or nanny schools to high performance.

Older people are especially vulnerable to online dating scams yet in Australia there is little support for victims, reports Julia May.

The amount of vitamin C that prevents scurvy, even in carb - eaters, is at most a mere 10 mg a day, and there is little support for taking extra, unless your system is overloaded with glucose.