Sentences with phrase «on scant evidence»

After all, scientists — as much as environmental activists — emphasise dramatic stories, and they often do so on the scantest evidence.

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«The evidence for economic reform to date is scant and based on purported private statements rather than government pronouncements,» wrote Bruce Klingner, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and former CIA official, in an October op - ed for the Los Angeles Times.

There is scant evidence for Christmas Truce events beyond a few isolated incidents on the Western Front.

Conventional economic theory suggests that low unemployment should ultimately lead to upward pressure on wages - but there has been scant evidence of this during the latest squeeze on household finances.

At the beginning, their «psalms and hymns and spiritual songs» (Colossians 3:16: Ephesians 5:19) were probably taken over and adapted from the older heritage, and while the evidence on this matter is scant, the devotional services of the early churches doubtless leaned heavily on the Old Testament, especially the Psalter, and even on the customs of the synagogue.

There is scant evidence that Jesus died on a cross to found a new religion, yet that is what those who stand to profit (power, authority, position and money) from such an idea would have us believe.

Although some physiological markers have been shown to be influenced by wearing these garments, scant evidence exists on their effects on functional recovery.

In the letter, the attorneys write that» when constitutionally - protected contributions are trotted out as evidence of a bribery scheme — particularly when they have scant relevance to the alleged scheme — jurors are unlikely to consider them merely on the convoluted signaling theories the Government relies on for its assertion of probative value.»

While the legislative session still has six weeks to go, there is scant evidence that the governor and the state legislative leaders are focused on a package of meaningful measures that would reduce the risk of corruption in New York.

The findings, published in the American Journal of Science, indicate that although plants were first detected on land more than 440 million years ago there is only scant evidence of fire at that time.

Despite the continuing evidence of the growing contribution of vehicle pollution to global warming, acid rain and ground level concentrations of ozone, there is scant sign of concerted thinking on what should be done.

Other factors also suggest Mars once had a much thicker atmosphere, such as evidence of persistent presence of liquid water on the planet's surface long ago even though the atmosphere is too scant for liquid water to persist on the surface now.

Stymied at every turn by an alarming lack of non-anecdotal concrete evidence of her existence (much of her early understanding of the character comes from a few scant interviews with former coworkers and one still photo), she begins to take on her own conception of the character, a deep dive into the method acting process.

Instead, school districts, eager to be perceived as plugged in and afraid of being penalized for low test scores, have bought into expensive drill - and - kill software — the kind that costs a fortune and displays a silly animation of fireworks or cheering crowds for every five correct answers — with only minimal improvements on test scores and scant evidence of long - term progress among students.

The available evidence on the influence of minimum - competency exams and higher curricular standards on educational attainment and employability is not only scant but often contradictory.

Much to the dismay of rival car makers, Porsche has not sat on its laurels: the evidence being the scant three years between the introduction of the first 991 - generation GT3 RS — a car which moved the game on in every respect — and the arrival of this, the second 991 - generation GT3 RS.

Every car maker on the planet is heading down the Electric Car route, and although there's scant evidence that mainstream buyers will buy in to EVs in a big way, -LSB-...]

White Star Lines Captain Bruce Ismay, long despised for taking a seat in a lifeboat rather than going down with the ship (a scenario eerily relived in the recent sinking of the Costa Concordia), is casually labeled a «masochist» on rather scant evidence.

In tracking the climate challenge (science and policy) since the 1980s I see scant evidence that our politics and public attitudes will make it possible to build a carbon price «pull» sufficient to shape energy investments and choices on a meaningful timescale....

There's scant evidence the world is ready to re-engineer the global economy as an indirect way to stimulate energy innovation, as Alex Kelly, one of many journalists covering the talks through a fellowship from the Earth Journalism Network, mused a few days ago as we reflected on the negotiations.

For the moment, there's scant evidence to support this at any level — in the basic data on storm patterns or in tallies of damage and deaths.

The need for a direct push on energy innovation is particularly acute given scant evidence, in Cancún treaty talks or elsewhere, that countries where nearly all of the growth in such emissions is coming in the next few decades are willing to restrain this flow for the sake of limiting long - term climate change.

There is no global warming on mars (or very scant evidence for it) which is another argument used by deniers to try and prove that the sun is the cause of GW.

First, there is scant evidence that the future negative effects of climate change on the U.S. will be markedly different than from the rest of the world.

But there's scant evidence that urging sufferers to buck - up and look on the bright side helps outcomes at all.

Actually, by the time you approach 200ppmv for CO2, you have already reached the break point in the curve, beyond which additional CO2 has much less impact on the RF — and this is close to the glacial value — suggesting that CO2 changes do not drive the glacial cycles (CO2 changes are supposed to amplify T rise during deglaciation, but there is scant evidence for this and the assumption that it did also underlay the IPCC belief — and a great many references in academic papers give a T degrees C per ppmv CO2 without stating over which range of concentrations this is meant to apply.

There is, however, scant evidence of such an approach in a recent decision given on 3 August 2017 by the English Supreme Court in one of the last decisions presided over by Lord Neuberger as President.

There is, however, scant evidence of such an approach in a recent decision given on 3 August 2017 by -LSB-...]

But there is scant evidence that students are choosing to attend specific Canadian law schools on the primary basis of affordability.

My concern is that the Supreme Court, by setting an arbitrary limit with scant comparable evidence on trial delay, has stirred up a hornet's nest in political circles, where justice spending doesn't have the same political cachet as hospital spending.