Sentences with phrase «of the smoking guns of»

«These are fascinating results, and suggest that variability in RNA splicing might be one of the smoking guns of the aging process,» says Mair.

Not exact matches

IMETs can not simply cherry - pick the 50 pages of «smoking gun» evidence that support their case; Canadian courts demand that prosecutors hand over to the defence virtually every document handled during the investigation.

But do not kid yourself: The magnitude of placing your own «John Hancock» on these documents is the trigger to your own smoking gun.

These measures also suggest Americans are more likely to die from gun violence than the combined risks of drowning, fire and smoke, stabbing, choking on food, airplane crashes, animal attacks, and forces of nature.

(The smoking gun in question, which was reported in October by Motherboard and others, came in the form of a common URL shortener, which the hackers used repeatedly to target DNC Chair John Podesta, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and others).

In other tweets, Pwn All The Things also pointed to a smoking gun to show a series of hacks targeting U.S. political figures was carried out by the same group, dispelling the suggestion that the DNC hacks could have been carried out by a 14 - year - old or any other single individual.

While none of the reports so far is a smoking gun, the very idea that Microsoft (MSFT) and Sony are thinking about upgrades rather than a major release is notable.

Early Marker: Creation in 2000 of his stock charter Madea, a «God - fearing, gun - toting, pot - smoking, loudmouthed grandmother» who triggered a series of plays and provided a springboard for Perry's film and TV career.

Thirty years ago, a riot at Peterhead Prison, Scotland, got so out of hand that British special forces had to intervene with smoke bombs and stun guns.

The fact that airline bosses are now repeating the mantra of «capacity discipline» — in other words not trying to expand their services too fast just because they are profitable again — is being viewed by some as a smoking gun.

But analysts said the lack of a smoking gun took some of the heat out of oil prices.

The CEO of the payment provider Bitrefill called this new information a «smoking gun» because of how much of the limited Bitcoin space Coinbase is taking.

«I've given you lots of discovery, and so far you don't have any smoking gun,» said Alsup, referring to whether Uber actually knew Levandowski had said trade secrets in hand.

If we are to see Bitcoin or any cryptocurrency gain serious traction these type of jumps, up or down, are kind of a smoking gun.

If by some fluke I do find myself heaven - bound on May 21 in a puff of smoke while my ailing mother and father are left down here with no one to care for them as the Horsemen ride over the hill shootin'their 6 - guns, I'm gonna demand a return flight so I can stand guard in front of their house with my NFR - approved lariat, ready for some ropin».

At the end of each story her conclusions are affirmed: the criminal confesses, or leaps from a bridge or drops a smoking gun.

On the split screen, familiar spliced video footage replayed what little most of us know — or care to know — about bin Laden: wearing a turban, sitting drinking tea, a long salt and pepper beard, speaking to friends, crouching holding a machine gun, skyscrapers smoking.

My point is that there is too much made of this «the priests were moved around» smoking gun without consideration to normal priestly activity.

She is sure to say, «I'm sorry, I don't know that,» and then I can intone «Hey Google» into the phone and pose the question or just spin around, sit in the chair, and do a Google search without saying a single word) roasted to hell and back with several careless wrist - shakes of black pepper, salt, garlic powder, sweet smoked paprika, red pepper flakes, and a touch of nutritional yeast (which I will never call «nooch» even if you put a gun to my temple and tell me that pulling the trigger will not yield a little flag emblazoned with the word «Bang!»).

Following the «smoking gun» emails, the odds of the FBI confirming Trump - Russia collusion have risen to -225 at Paddy Power.

Apart from the creation of the universe the smoking gun there is a puppet master behind the scenes IMO is DNA.

He saw a wisp of smoke coming from behind a tree, so he aimed his gun at the smoke with one arm and fired.

I appreciate his honesty but although he says that nobody is shocked by it, the subject is a favourite of the media and could leave Wenger having to defend himself and his players once again, while trying to hide a «smoking gun» behind his back.

Lewis still remains one of the bigger smoking guns in all of this, which was evident in Ole Miss» initial response from Tuesday:

Most games, this is kinda fun and isn't particularly hard; there are a lot of games with a «smoking gun» type incident, be it a great goal, a defensive failure, a referee being an idiot, or some such triggering event that causes a specific outcome.

No one has found a single smoking gun as the cause of childhood obesity, and our study is certainly no exception.»

«Finding the mechanism linking low doses of BPA (or BPS) to adverse brain development and hyperactivity is almost like finding a smoking gun,» Hamid Habibi, one of the authors of the study, said in a news release.

I am concerned about the prevalence of autism but have not seen any data which shows the smoking gun — I really doubt it is encouraging women to nurse or pump and bottle feed since children throughout time have gotten nourishment this way.

And it doesn't get more damning for civil society architecture — herding justices of the courts (including the Supreme Court) into detention, with alleged smoking guns, after a sting operation, by the secret police.

«Assuming everything we know now is all there is, and there are no smoking guns, I think he's fine at the end of the day,» an Assembly Democrat told me earlier today.

The funny thing about all this is that the document in question isn't the smoking gun, bombshell sort of thing that you would expect merits this sort of treatment.

Examples of this include gun control laws, SEC / stock market regulation, environmental regulations, laws against smoking, drinking, behavior, etc..

In 2010 Kellner brandished a «smoking gun» which, he claimed, proved that liquor manufacturer Diageo had improperly worked on behalf of liquor stores trying to preserve their franchise.

The inquiry failed to find a smoking gun which would see Mr Hunt ejected from his job, but the various emails, texts and phone calls proved highly embarrassing to the media secretary, who cut a hesitant and nervous figure for the duration of the session.

The Smoking gun was exposed in Rattners new book that Schumer knew that his «BRAIN» Hank Morris was a placement agent and making Millions of dollars in placement fee ’s

ALBANY — Pro-gun GOP lawmakers are smoking mad that they voted for millions of dollars in funding for the SAFE Act — the state's strict gun - control law — claiming they didn't know the spending was hidden in state budget bills.

«Just like the [Surgeon General's] warning that you see on the side of cigarette packs have changed the perception of smoking, these gun warnings are the first step to changing the public's conversation,» said Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson, a co-sponsor of the gun bill.

That atmosphere offered some relief in a case where prosecutors lacked a smoking gun, and where jurors were thus subjected to long testimony on the details of tax abatements, state grant processing procedures and mesothelioma litigation.

Other legal experts said it's unclear whether Bharara is searching for some sort of smoking gun — a direct kickback or an explicit threat or promise — or simply trying to make a case that what he calls the «show me the money» culture of Albany can prompt an indictment.

Assemblyman Sheldon Silver — one of the most powerful men in Albany for two decades and a constant in shaping state policy under five governors — was found guilty Monday of selling his office for legal fees, capping a trial that cast new light on the capital's lax ethics laws and handing federal prosecutors a big win in a case that had lacked a smoking gun.

The goddaughter of indicted Councilman Ruben Wills delivered a smoking gun for prosecutors on Tuesday, testifying she did campaign work for the Queens pol while being improperly paid by his nonprofit.

During closing arguments in the corruption trial against state Sen. Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, a lawyer for the younger Skelos told jurors that the government's case against the former majority leader relies on burdening the jury with heaps of emails, phone calls and witness testimony to distract jurors from the lack of a supposed smoking gun.

There is «no smoking gun» to support prosecution claims that Rebekah Brooks was the architect of phone hacking at the News of the World, a jury has been told.

Albany Law School Professor Vince Bonventre says he analyzed the government's case, and also initially believed that the absence of a smoking gun weakened the prosecutions arguments.

«He didn't answer direct questions, the ban on future gun shows, the rise of anti-Semitism, and his whole proposal for the airport, which is a smoke screen to cover costs that later we will wind up paying anyway,» added Gloria Strauss, another Larchmont resident.

Albany Law School Professor Vince Bonventre said he analyzed the government's case and also initially believed that the absence of a smoking gun weakened the prosecution's arguments.

The smoking — or in this case, oozing — gun is a layer of siliceous microfossils called diatoms.

While her research did not find a «smoking gun,» definitively proving that the radioactive isotopes were injected by a shock wave, Telus did show that the amount of Fe - 60 present in the early Solar System is consistent with a supernova origin.

It was smoking - gun evidence: after billions of years out in the cold, Io was more than still warm — it was seething with volcanic activity.

«People are likely to react with little fear to certain types of objectively dangerous risk that evolution has not prepared them for, such as guns, hamburgers, automobiles, smoking, and unsafe sex, even when they recognize the threat at a cognitive level,» says Carnegie Mellon University researcher George Loewenstein, whose seminal 2001 paper, «Risk as Feelings,» (pdf) debunked theories that decision making in the face of risk or uncertainty relies largely on reason.