Sentences with phrase «more validity to it»

A newly published patent gives more validity to rumors of Microsoft developing a folding Surface Phone.

The speculative nature of the Hansen discourse lends no more validity to the current brouhaha over climate change than any other antics he has performed before or after he retired.

That won't do anything about the weight Amazon gives to the review initially but it will help give more validity to your review, at least for me, than a review from someone who may or may not have read the book or who read a pirated copy.

Teachers grant more validity to classroom assessment results, classroom observations, homework completion and quality, and students» class participation and behavior than administrators do (Guskey, 2007).

The Last Exorcism Sequel Gets a Writer: Now here's some sequel news with a little more validity to it, and value for that matter.

Not exact matches

More important is a test's «validity,» which basically means whether it is testing what it purports to test.

Essentially what this means is that the bill will allow the patent office to review the validity and scope of more patents in the first place, which, in turn, may make a patent troll's claim baseless.

In the name of «a flexible approach tailored to the modern conception of federalism, which allows for some overlapping and favours a spirit of co?operation» (at para 93) and an approach that is consistent with the presumption of validity, Justice Gascon clearly favoured a more deferential and «delicate» approach to the assessment of pith and substance than did the majority.

If you wish to convince any rational person of the validity of your bible, you'll have to come up with a little bit more than what you've got.

We will keep repeating it until you realize that there really is no evidence, that your religion has no more validity than any other religion, and that the only reason you believe is that you grew up with it and conformed, or your life bottomed out and you got desperate enough to believe anything, and conformed.

«he had to accept the truth of her accusation» synonyms: veracity, truthfulness, verity, sincerity, candor, honesty; More accuracy, correctness, validity, factuality, authenticity «he doubted the truth of her statement» antonyms: dishonesty, falseness • that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality.

Prove to me that your tale of the afterlife has more validity than mine.

They have fought advances of thought, they have tried to defeat the efforts of men and women to know more about the world, they have denied the validity of scientific truth, they have called into question the freedom and responsibility, as well as the dignity, of human life.

The more one perceives in ancient literature, whether of Judea or Greece, values of permanent validity, the more one tends to lift them out of their original frameworks of concept and present them in modern terms and ways of thinking.

This specific practice requires only that two or more individuals agree to suspend other purposes in order to assess the validity of contested moral claims.

Actually, modern science put a lot more of effort into discrediting discoveries that point to validity of claims made by religion, than the opposite.

More than that, we all feel deeply our own identity; and it appears to us that the only way in which that feeling can be given validity is by our assuming just such a substantial self.

More and more we are coming to grasp the validity of W.H. Auden's line «We must love one another or die.&raMore and more we are coming to grasp the validity of W.H. Auden's line «We must love one another or die.&ramore we are coming to grasp the validity of W.H. Auden's line «We must love one another or die.»

But the problem is frequently much more difficult, as psychologists (Jung) and social philosophers (Nietzsche, Sorel, Pareto, Spengler) have shown that the analysis of the social conditioning of ideas and convictions, though in itself not entitling to decisions as to their validity or invalidity, may contribute to the realization of the partial character of views or intentions expressed in them.

The rule of the greatest good for the greatest number, for example, has a certain practical validity, but it implies that the greater good can be arrived at by addition whereas our principle points to the fact that the real good involves qualitative transformation of the order of life into a more subtle and complete mutual participation.

These so - called enlightened muslims no more heed to the fear mongering verses of the koran that threaten to burn them and roast them in the «fires of hell» (per the koran) if they dare to think and question the validity of that book.

As the disastrous consequences of our pervasive ethical relativism become more and more apparent, there is evidence of a growing frustration with values whose only claim to validity is personal preference and taste.

If this speculation has any validity, the dramatic change in attitudes toward the right to die may be part of a more general drift since World War II toward greater tolerance, as evidenced by an increase in respect for the civil liberties of «deviants» of both the «left» and the «right.»

Having spent several years in the study of Whitehead's thought in seminary and later in graduate philosophy seminars, I had finally worked out a position on the validity of Hartshorne's ontological argument that related that argument back to the more empirical, experiential, and descriptive theism of Whitehead.

On the contrary, I should claim, what I have been saying is metaphysical in the second sense of the word which I proposed in an earlier chapter; it is the making of wide generalizations on the basis of experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific experience from which it started but also other experiences, both human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how things actually and concretely go in the world.

For some this disillusion with the moral validity of American institutions leads to a passionate sense of injustice and a struggle for a more just society.

It is beyond my competence to lecture Rivers about the validity or lack thereof of black rage; but surely there is a place for more than just «love» in successful political action?

Adopting the style she did, enables the more thoughtful dissenters to reflect on the validity of their rationale for being anti Muslim or opposed to an interfaith center for the purpose of bringing people together.

That's a good reason, for a two year old... You may want to spend a couple minutes and find out why people don't like a candidate, see if there is any validity and then decide on who is best to lead the country which to me is more important than out of spite.

It should be noted further that although the Jews — and especially in the pre-Mosaic religion — accepted doctrines that were incomplete or even mistaken and rites more or less imperfect, this fact did not deny to the Jewish religion itself, through other of its elements, the positive validity of assuring salvation.

Modern science and technology would have to be more modest, human rights would have to receive better grounds and be coupled with duties and gratitude, and the validity of a «personal point of view» on things would have to be recognized.

The more data we accumulate to prove that something works, the more validity it possesses.

In other words, religion can, for the purpose of these theories, in principle be either reconstructed or abolished and seen as pointing to a more comprehensive theoretical system.4 By locating religion in a larger explanatory context it gives «its public claim to validity a purely relative value».5

[3] Closely related, it is also possible that he also began to suspect that apocalyptic thought had some validity, a suspicion that process thought was designed to overcome, for apocalyptic thought held to a dualism — although civilizations shall be shattered and the earth shall fall to pieces and life shall come to an end, another, truer, more real reality remains.

More recognized that some of Luther's complaints were just, but an entirely different threat to the faith came when Luther went further and questioned the validity of sacraments and later developed his doctrine of justification by faith alone.

whether for the right or wrong reasons, our leader chose to stay on when things took a turn of sorts... a new owner arrived on the scene, plans for a new stadium emerged and Wenger became the bearer of bad news... he sold us on a new story, one that required patience on our parts... financial constraints were the order of the day, so that the enormous sums spent on the new venue could be recouped... although some would question the validity of such claims, why wouldn't they believe their faithful leader... according to those within the hierarchy, the future never looked so bright, as this new home would ensure our place among the elites for years to come... as we all know now these claims were a well constructed fabrication and so those who feel they were duped in the process are infuriated and rightly so... the fact that this club and it's manager have continually misled the fans, especially following Gazidis's claims about our financial liquidity, simply rubbed more salt in an already gaping wound... this surely isn't how you treat your «family», especially when they supported you through the supposed «lean» years... it was a dirty trick played by Kroenke but the fact is was orchestrated by Wenger himself hurt the most... as for those in the media, many of whom are former players or longtime pundits, who observed the early years firsthand, saw this as the perfect opportunity to vent the anger they felt towards this pretentious man once and for all... all in all, karma's a bitch

Can we have a more intelligent analysis based on considerable research put into this articles subject matter to add validity to your post which without backup must be rendered as, let's face it, pretty meaningless.

I invited Mike to comment on that article if he desired, and ever since he and Dana have been having an intense, informative debate about school food reform — the costs, what's possible, the validity of Oliver's accomplishments, the role an outsider like J.O. can or can not play, and more — that I think you'll really want to read.

To begin with, a «good» decision can only be made with correct information... and even then, we determine the validity of information based on gut intuition — trust and past experience — much more than anyone would like to admiTo begin with, a «good» decision can only be made with correct information... and even then, we determine the validity of information based on gut intuition — trust and past experience — much more than anyone would like to admito admit.

Certainly infants sleeping separated from their caregivers at night (solitary room sleeping), infants sleeping on their stomachs (prone) to promote uninterrupted, early consolidation of adult - like sleep, and bottle - feeding with formula or cows milk rather than breast milk were all novel, culturally - sanctioned but scientifically - untested (as safe or best) infant care innovations.1 It is now known that each of these practices has contributed to or led to thousands of SIDS deaths.3 - 5 Many of these infant lives, we can infer, could have been saved had we more carefully examined and come to understand the biological validity of mother - infant safe co-sleeping, breastfeeding and infants sleeping on their backs (supine).

However, the idea that if society needs to bring resources to bear it is somehow not a fundamental human right is an argument that seems to make assumptions about being somehow valid more than any demonstration of validity having been made.

«If the validity of his appointment is not decided now, his investigation may continue for many more months or years under a cloud that will not be removed until or unless he obtains an indictment, and the person indicted moves to dismiss it on the ground that Adler was never validly appointed.

Spitzer has until Thursday to collect nearly 4,000 valid signatures — and likely many more in case of legal challenges to the validity of those signatures — to get on the ballot.

«Those new to licensing tend to be more willing to accept the validity of reputable third - party benchmarking, which tends to be the only available compromise point anyway.»

Conversely, they also need to rise to the challenge of using new insights and techniques from other disciplines to question the validity of their own theories and make nuclear physics research more powerful.

Of these two forms of science denialism, the Republican version is more dangerous because the party has taken to attacking the validity of science itself as a basis for public policy when science disagrees with its ideology.

Some nervy upstarts are questioning the validity of string theory, which is to physics what Wal - Mart is to retail: the biggest thing around, dominant for more than 20 years now.

This proposition is probably harder to frame into a specific prediction until we learn more about the modifying variables, but that does not mean that it lacks validity.

It seems that attacks on the validity of the surface temperature record as an attempt to cast doubt on the recent warming trend would have been a bit more convincing back in the day when there were competing satellite temperature records that suggested a cooling trend.

However, the validity of the scaling relations depends on the homology between the star under study and the r... ▽ More The scaling relations between global asteroseismic observables and stellar properties are widely used to estimate masses and radii of stars exhibiting solar - like oscillations.