Sentences with phrase «more evidence against»

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has presented more evidence against a former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, who is being prosecuted on a 23 - count charge bordering on money laundering and diversion of funds, before Justice Adebukola Banjoko, of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, Gudu, Abuja.

«Yes, Mulcaire must have targeted many people, but I took the view that more evidence against Mulcaire would take us nowhere at all.

Alleged Corruption: How Dariye Diverted N204m to Own Company - Witness The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has presented more evidence against a former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, who is being prosecuted on a 23 - count charge bordering on money laundering and diversion of funds, before Justice Adebukola Banjoko, of the Federal Capital Territory, -LSB-...]

There is more evidence against evolution than for it.

Not exact matches

Even if you accept Zuckerberg's proposition that Facebook is making the world «more open and connected» — rather than recognize the evidence it's dividing us into ever more insulated and polarized digital tribes — you still have to weigh that against the damage it has caused.

Not only are these corporate forms a powerful tool in the fight against inequality, but there is evidence that they provide the incentives for greater effort, more cooperation, more innovation and more sharing — all of which contribute to improvements in workplace performance and company productivity.

In the case of the dozen or more allegations of sexual misconduct against Trump himself, as in the case of ousted White House staff secretary Rob Porter, the weight of the available evidence comes down conclusively on the side of the accusers.

Scientists, for their part, especially those in the scientific community with burdens against religion, need to understand that the nature of scientific evidence, method and hypotheses and the nature of theological evidence, method, and hypothesis have more in common than they might imagine.

I'm curious, was there a point to having this particular selection of quotes or was it more to just pretend / look like you had a lot of «evidence» against?

On face value, W. E. Hocking's remark that when Whitehead arrived at Harvard «his speculative structure... was already well advanced in its main outlines» is a bit of external evidence against my hypothesis, but it may mean nothing more than that Whitehead was little influenced by the philosophical opinions and controversies of his American colleagues during these years, which seems very much to have been the case.

On the contrary, I believe there is far more compelling evidence for the existence of God, than against.

Sadly, these initiatives are fought tooth and nail by anti-gay groups (sadly pretty much all of which identify as Christian) who want to claim (against all evidence) that being gay makes you more likely to commit suicide not anything that you suffer as a result of being gay, just some arbitrary offense against God thing.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

Another example was alluded to before: the fact that our world seems to have taken shape over a period of many billions of years, rather than having been created in essentially its present form a few thousand years ago, provides evidence against the view that the creation of our world required omnipotent coercive power; this fact is much more consistent with the view that the divine creative power is solely the power of persuasion, the kind of power we can experience working in our own lives.

I grew up an atheist, but when I studied it, I found the evidence FOR God to be more compelling than against.

The «liberal» is more often impelled to employ appeals to our common human experience as evidence for or against particular beliefs.

Even more to the point you have Hitler, a man who evoked god countless times in his speeches, had the nazis were belt buckles that said «God with us» and you see this as mountains of evidence AGAINST him being a christian?

For anyone interested in the evidence against creationism and for evolution in the anatomy of creatures living today, I'd suggest «Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes» at oolon.awardspace.com/SMOGGM.htm.

NOT sorry to disapoint you but MY religion or spirituality is NONE of your business and suits me just fine, makes me a better person, more accepting of others, more kind to my fellow earthbound souls, more respectful to mankind and morther earth than all religions combined who unfortunately have over 2ooo years of evidence of horrors committed against each other ALL in the name of the religous organizations you want me to join??? I think I will stick with my smorgasborg of this and that spirituality.

The final three chapters summarily consider the evidence against and for the virgin birth, arguing that it is neither myth nor indemonstrable truth; instead the evidence for the existence of an historical tradition anteceding the Gospels, ultimately from Mary herself, is more credible than any alternative explanation; hence, for anyone open to the possibility of miracles, there is good evidence to affirm Jesus» virgin birth on the basis of the New Testament's testimony.

Rather we are well reminded that the Judaeo - Christian God is the immediate sustainer of all, and that to give a scientific explanation is more evidence for the Creator than against him.

One fire storm, no matter how bad, is no more evidence for global warming than a big blizzard is evidence against it.

The cross is not simply one more piece of damaging evidence that seals shut the case against guilty humanity.

It's quite sad and says more about the state of the heart of those writing rather than any evidence against the existence of God.

The cutting edge of philosophy for two centuries has worked more against this self - evidence than for it.

The evidence suggests that flax is actually protective against breast cancer http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/24013641/ also Google «flax Breast cancer ncbi» for more studies

Looking through the Chief Acavedo's unrelated press conferences about other suspects, suspects that have actual evidence against them who he treated in a more professional innocent till proven guilty manner.

Put against all actual evidence, we more often than not find ourselves more than 10 points behind the champions in the final league table.

I mean this site / thread probably isn't the place (understatement) but I have delved into this argument more thn the averge joe, and I guarantee someone taking the opposing position in a debate against me on this subject is going to have their hands full with the amount of evidence I could put forth on them for the supposition that an intelligent enity at the very least kick started this thing off.

You have to bear in mind that another NYC DA pursued a felony gang assault charge against Renzo Gracie on exponentially more flimsy evidence for the scuffle at One Oak several years ago with video evidence in existence to contradict the DA's witnesses» false statements which is the only reason it abandoned those charges for a misdemeanor assault plea.

On the playing side the club has battled manfully to get themselves out of the relegation dogfight, as evidenced by last nights last gasp point against Sunderland, it will take a few more such battles to see them make their way our of trouble but I have a sneaky feeling that they could pull off a Houdini.

«I declined to accede to your demand for evidence that there is no more of a media agenda against Arsenal than there is against Spurs (or any other club for that matter) for two very simple reasons.»

Nitram — I declined to accede to your demand for evidence that there is no more of a media agenda against Arsenal than there is against Spurs (or any other club for that matter) for two very simple reasons.

Premier League clubs voted against using VAR next season after the technology was trialled in cup games, and the league said on Wednesday it needs more evidence of a benefit to fans and clubs before making a decision on safe standing.

It is a rant, and nothing more, as evidence by the wildly false claim the author made as to the supposed lack of evidence supporting the claims she is railing against.

I was DEAD SET against cosleeping before I had my son — I had seen all the literature on the risks and the supposed «evidence» about how it was SOOOO much more dangerous than a crib.

I think this site should all be a little more gracious to those considering other models of care considering the hurdles many of us come up against with our doctors that are not evidenced based care, no wonder we are looking and questioning things.

Those against home birth assume often, I believe, that we make choices off feelings more than research and scientific evidence.

There is conclusive evidence that breastfeeding protects children against gastrointestinal and respiratory infections.1 This obviously has major implications for child development, as children who become ill more frequently are unlikely to have optimal physical, intellectual and psycho - emotional development.

In a submission to the House of Lords Constitution Committee's inquiry into the passage of legislation through Parliament, the CIOT proposes: · The Finance Bill Public Bill Committee takes oral evidence from tax experts and others; · More effective liaison between select committees and the Finance Bill committee; · Increasing the resources available to Parliament for scrutinising tax matters; · Using technology to make it easier for those outside Parliament to comment on Bills, e.g. an online facility to input comments by clause numbers, so MPs can see who says what against each clause; · Asking the Office of Tax Simplification to publish simplification assessments of new tax proposals.

Several senior Democrats cited Cuomo's refusal to defend Clinton against Sanders» continuing attacks on her acceptance of more than $ 600,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs, during an interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews after Thursday night's angry debate, as evidence that the state's Democratic establishment had failed to strongly rally to her side.

A jury of seven women and five men was chosen Monday to hear the evidence against Joseph Percoco, who's accused of shaking down more than $ 300,000 in «pay - to - play» bribes from companies seeking to do business with the state.

Working Families Party Executive Director Dan Cantor released a statement yesterday saying the allegations against Sen. Carl Kruger and Assemblyman William Boylan Jr. et al, if true, are «more evidence that our campaign finance system is utterly broken.»

«If these allegations [against Kruger and Boyland] are true, it's more evidence that our campaign - finance system is utterly broken,» said WFP boss Dan Cantor.

Paddy Ashdown has hit out at the chancellor and his Tory Cabinet colleagues» arguments against the alternative vote, as more evidence of Vince Cable's resistance from within the government emerges.

«The investigators gathered evidence against more than 17 individuals connected to the drug trade or violent crimes, including some who sold significant quantities of cocaine,» the story said.

«Jonnie's excessive sentence for a prank that hurt no one, committed by someone with no criminal record, against a man whose media empire has ruined lives, is yet more evidence of government crackdown on dissent.

NYPD Commissioner William Bratton and Rep. Peter King of Seaford said this morning that the Paris terrorist attacks are more evidence of the need for strong surveillance to protect against similar strikes in the United States.

Singas uncovered much more damning evidence against Bonilla, and he was convicted of official misconduct.

Since taking over from the rather more liberal, Kenneth Clarke Grayling has attacked human rights as «political correctness», proposed dramatic restrictions to the right of individuals to challenge the state through judicial review, imposed significant restrictions on access to lawyers with no - win no - fee cases, moved the government back on to the course of building more (and bigger) prisons — despite the evidence against them — and is set on dramatically privatising up to 70 % of the probation service ceding state responsibility for offenders to commercial enterprises.