Sentences with phrase «not meaningful evidence»

That's why they are not meaningful evidence.

Not exact matches

Good evidence that your close friends provide a meaningful buffer against stress, not just in tough times, but all the time, by physically changing how your body handles stress.

God could make himself as obvious as gravity (since he made gravity as obvious as he made gravity), but he doesn't, and so there's no way to determine whether or not god exist and we continue to debate him without any solid proof or meaningful evidence (like we see in biology and chemistry and such).

How can one have a «meaningful» relationship with someone who is invisible, doesn't speak back, and has given zero evidence of existing?

Taxpayers Alliance chief Jonathan Isaby said: «It is astonishing that the government is pressing ahead with this pernicious tax when the evidence clearly suggests that it will simply not affect consumption in any meaningful way.

«The overall evidence that sugar exerts a meaningful risk for diabetes beyond its supply of calories is simply not supported by existing evidence, including from randomised trials.

Patients should be skeptical about the guidelines, and have a meaningful dialogue with their doctors about statins, including what the evidence does and does not show, before deciding what is best for them.»

These simply seem to be accepted as the unvarnished truth and not subjected to any meaningful scrutiny even though they are put forward without any credible supporting evidence.

Whether countervailing forces — federal pressure, political pressure from organized parent groups, or conscientious officials committed to the law's goals — are strong enough to force states and districts to implement meaningful turnaround efforts remains to be seen, but the evidence so far is not encouraging.

«The public perception,» says Stanford professor Tom Dee who has researched the law, «seems to be that No Child Left Behind has failed, but the available research evidence suggests it led to meaningful — but not transformational — changes in school performance.»

Despite initial scepticism about what it would be possible to demonstrate using pre-existing school data, the analysis revealed widespread evidence that meaningful engagement in the Greenhouse Sports programmes was associated with a range of positive outcomes for students when compared to students who did not participate.

Behind closed doors, insiders may or may not have exchanged their opinions on value - added evaluations, but since the evidence required for a meaningful debate over the real world effects of those evaluations did not exist, I wonder if the lack of research on the policy implications of value - added was considered.

and they have not yielded evidence of meaningful change in teacher performance.

Bartell argued that Pearson's sample sizes (60 students) were too small for solid conclusions to be drawn from them; that there was no evidence that Waterford and not other factors caused the gains; and that the gains were too small to be meaningful in any case, or to be representative of the district as a whole.

Knowing that a third - grader scored «Level 2» on the English Language Arts test may not be that meaningful to a parent, beyond other available evidence about what the child knows and can do.

It is unlikely that teacher pensions are a factor in this difference since evidence shows that they do not act as a meaningful retention incentive outside of a small effect for teachers nearing retirement.

In general, teachers draw on hunches and do not use meaningful evidence / data to respond to students» needs and to drive instructional change

The evidence did not indicate meaningful differences in district average scoring stringency and leniency in scoring and therefore did not support adjustments to district - level cut scores for «annual determinations.»

Those same institutions and many more are trying to do the same for digital media today — but they need help and I don't see evidence that the ebook industry is collaborating with them in any meaningful way.

But the idea that it is significant enough to meaningful counteract anthropogenic emissions is not well accepted, because the evidence isn't there.

We didn't have time to explore evidence that there was a meaningful international process moving forward.

The «false - alarm probability» is 5.1 %, which is so close to the standard cutoff of 5 %, that one should consider the result to be meaningful (but not ironclad) evidence of a genuine pattern, a dip during the 1990s followed by recent increase.

In that respect, these new joint initiatives are evidence that the driver toward a low - carbon future will not be a political compromise, but a reconciliation of sustained and meaningful international collaboration in the deployment of clean - energy solutions with the realities of atmospheric physics and chemistry.

It is now increasingly clear that meaningful international action to limit climate change not only requires compelling scientific evidence and recognition of legitimate national interests, but also must focus on considerations of equity and ethics.

Rather the meaningful consensus is not among the scientists but within the science: the overwhelming predominance of evidence for greenhouse - driven global warming that can not easily be overturned even by a few contrary studies.

Any meaningful temperature data covering the last 2000 years doesn't even exist, as it has not even been measured at all and nor can it be reconstructed to a tolerance where conclusive evidence one way or the other can be drawn from it.

Given uncontested facts (the Respondent did not tender any evidence before the court), there was no meaningful opportunity... [more]

Ultimately, the evidence heard by the Tribunal did not support the father's allegation that his children were denied access to a meaningful education.

The Plaintiff's physician gave evidence that the prognosis for recovery was extremely guarded although the Court rejected this finding that any lingering symptoms did not «debilitate or impair» the Plaintiff in any meaningful way.

In order for Article 10 (2) to have a meaningful role and in order for the Saunders case - law to be respected, due attention should be paid to these rights in non-criminal proceedings, unless that testimony and evidence would not be admitted to criminal proceedings.

Given uncontested facts (the Respondent did not tender any evidence before the court), there was no meaningful opportunity to rule on important interpretative issues concerning the liability of anti-circumvention technology distributors, or the interoperability exception.

Most people can not make meaningful use of the raw evidence without someone to put it all together.

Contrary to the submission of the Appellant, the Court of Appeal found the Trial Judge was entitled to accept witness evidence (including from those not trained as veterinarians); it was ``... unreasonable to suggest that a device that is designed to deliver a meaningful shock to an animal many times larger than the dogs in question would not cause unnecessary pain or suffering...» (See para. 16).

(1) discouraging Plaintiffs from pursuing legitimate but modest claims by refusing to make any meaningful offer to pay damages and forcing those Plaintiffs to trial in circumstances where, because of defences the insurers have asserted, they can not possibly be successful unless they call expensive medical and other evidence;

Absent some meaningful evidence of a meeting of the minds between counterparties, it is hard to conclude that we are getting the mutual gains from trade we hope contracts produce, and a mere click isn't very good evidence of assent to particular terms.

There is no evidence that slightly less winter sea ice than the average since 1979 has had any negative impact on polar bear health or survival: the difference is simply not biologically meaningful...

Stated differently, there is substantial evidence that children are more likely to attain their psychological potential when they are able to develop and maintain meaningful relationships with both of their parents, whether the two parents live together or not.

I couldn't think of a better way to get advice that was not only meaningful, but also practical and evidence - based enough to appeal to a room full of engineers.

Collection accounts or charged - off accounts that exceed the above limits do not have to be paid off at or prior to closing, provided all of the following are documented: a strong credit profile, meaningful financial reserves, evidence that the accounts pose no threat to Fannie Mae's first mortgage lien and evidence that the outstanding accounts are not likely to affect the borrower's equity position.»