Sentences with phrase «offer little evidence of»

Our results offer little evidence of an achievement gain for those admitted to an exam school....

But a commentary track between Ripstein and actor Enrique Rocha offers little evidence of Ripstein's purported dissatisfaction with the film.

Not exact matches

The archeological evidence in Palestine reveals with pitiful adequacy the common sacrifice of little children as offerings to the gods.

Attacking Christianity We can say of many of the secondary lines of attack upon Christian dogma drawn from the modern sciences and modern critique that the interpretations offered of the evidence is never necessary, and that frequently the evidence itself is too scrappy and too little evaluated as fact to be worth considering.

Like most of these works, The Whole Harmonium offers a restrained narrative that cleaves closely to documentary evidence and ventures little by way of either critical interpretation or unifying assessment.

Little argument is offered, alternative positions are rarely mentioned and never analyzed nor refuted, no real evidence for his positive proposals is provided, there is page after page of blunt assertion, and after the first chapter I simply lost count of the leaps of logic which larded every section.

Whenever in the course of his investigation of the historical Jesus Meier encounters arguments for which little evidence is offered, he likes to say that «what is gratuitously asserted may be gratuitously denied.»

They have made some protests against the diagnosis of autogynephilia as a mechanism to generate demands for sex - change operations, but they have offered little evidence to refute the diagnosis.

On the evidence of their last two matches (against Arsenal and Tottenham) Stoke will offer plenty of effort but with very little in the way of quality to match it.

Five: New plain packs «evidence» is worthy of a laugh and little else We were less than impressed with the evidence on offer in a new report intended to nudge the UK toward imposing plan packs on cigarettes.

But while these stars offer clues to the age of our galaxy, they present little evidence that helps to explain how the Milky Way originally formed.

It's fair also to say that there is little in the way of scientific evidence showing that short - term or fad diets and cleanses offer much in the way of clear benefit.

As it stands, the evidence on offer in his rendition of Macbeth shows little else than that the $ 170 million video game adaptation Assassin's Creed he has signed up to may well be the perfect project for Kurzel (and I mean this in both a positive and a negative sense).

Only anecdotal evidence has been offered in support of the claim that charter schools systematically remove students with disabilities, and little rigorous research has considered the underlying causes of the difference between the percentage of charter - school students and district - school students enrolled in special education, the so - called «special education gap.»

She offered little or no evidence in support of her belief in choice as a panacea.

Such programs, which can offer certification in three months to two years, are booming despite little more than anecdotal evidence of their success.

For example, every year my school offers enrichment classes, intervention classes, and an extended week despite little evidence of success.

There is relatively little quantitative research on the features of TPPs that are associated with student achievement, but what does exist offers suggestive evidence that some features may matter.

The test scores offer fresh evidence for those who argue that the United States is losing ground to global competitors and others who say a decade's worth of school reform has done little to improve educational outcomes.

On the fourth day of the federal government's ebook pricing trial against Apple (s AAPL), Amazon (s AMZN) and Google (s GOOG) executives offered testimony in hearings that were often fraught and occasionally funny — but still introduced little evidence that was new or surprising to anyone who has been following the trial.

Verdict: Very little evidence of offering debt consolidation or of being a christian organization.

There has been little evidence offered by the media on the particulars of this case.

While the stated objective of the PB framework is to «guide human societies» away from a state of the Earth system that is «less hospitable to the development of human societies», it offers little scientific evidence to support the connection between the global state of specific Earth system processes and human well - being.

As we've mentioned a lot here on this blog, the «evidence» offered by Greenpeace is that little more than $ 45 million was made available to lobbying organisations, over the course of a decade.

I suggest that with great frequency the Harper - LeBreton usage («the ministerial usage») of «obvious» signals the speaker's intention to engage in an argument from ignorance, in the sense that they assert something as fact for which they will offer little, if anything, by way of substantial evidence.

The problem is that opinions of practitioners in a field that has little value to offer are being substituted for evidence and the rule of law.