Sentences with phrase «only kind of evidence»

«It is wrong - headed thinking that the only kind of evidence that is reliable is a randomized controlled trial,» says Jeffrey Blumberg, a Tufts University pharmacologist.

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In the very first months, the only evidence might be the kinds of meetings held, shifts in focus and changes in who is getting resources and recognition, but business impact can show up within 12 - 18 months.

«I think the only way a case could go forward on that basis is if there's some kind of documentary evidence — such as a text or an email — which indicates that (the election) was the reason for the payment.»

The proliferation of communication technologies, the changing structure of everyday life (due largely to technology), the growing complexity of family life, the changing understandings and norms of sexual conduct and the expansion of consumer culture (as evidenced by unprecedented levels of consumer debt) are only a few of the conditions that present pastors with new kinds of demands.

A comprehensive auditing of the entire Swiss banking system found only 1,200 accounts where there was actual evidence that the depositor was a Jew who perished in the Holocaust; other estimates place the figure (without real proof of any kind) at twenty «five thousand such accounts.

The extension may or may not be warranted, and the only means of reaching any kind of rational decision is surely to appeal to the available evidence.

As for failure to show that God exists, as I've asked elsewhere, just what kind of «evidence» are you looking for, and just how long do you think it is going to be before you begin to contradict yourself, when it is pointed out to you that your empirical demand for «evidence» will only take you so far when it comes to knowing anything?

This does not mean that they approached the myths as moderns, believing only what accorded with some kind of evidence, or seeking the kernel of existential truth in the supernaturalistic husk.

«Only a minority of Protestant adults evidence the kind of «integrated, vibrant, and life - encompassing faith congregations seek to develop,» the study reports.

The authors of Christianity gave them a god with no limitations of any kind, so they can make up explanations and answers limited only by their imaginations, and none of it has to be testable, verifiable, or consistent with any evidence.

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Many Americans today evidence the same kind of fatalism — that deterioration of their quality of life is somehow inevitable, a given part of existence, and that the only solution is to get as much security as possible before it is too late.

There really is only one kind of evidence.

«I call these «facts» because I think that some scheme of this kind is the only one consistent with our actual evidence; too complex to summarize here.

The only other variables are if they could show an intent to kill (upping the charge to attempted homicide) or an intent to maim or disfigure, or some kind of hate crime motivation but in this case, there's no evidence of that.

Furthermore, it is now clear that all kinds of crying (i.e. fussing, crying and inconsolable crying) is prolonged, that this prolongation occurs only in the first few months, and that inconsolable crying is almost unique to the first few months of life.3, 40 The «unpredictability» of the crying, and of the caregiver's ability or inability to soothe the infant is most likely due to the facts that (1) the infant cry in the first few months is a reflection of the organization of its behavioural states (crying, awake alert, sleeping), rather than an intentional «signal,» 14 (2) that behavioural state changes occur in «steps» rather than due to increases or decreases in arousal7, 41 and (3) infants are resistant to behavioural state change unless they are in a transitional phase in which they are «ready» to change state.7 Finally, there is now good evidence that the proportion of infants that have evidence of organic disease to explain their crying is less than 5 %.8, 42,43 In the absence of other compromise, infants with «colic» have as good an outcome as infants without «colic.»

These kinds of studies pile on the guilt for a mother who desperately needs sleep and whose only option might be to sleep with her child, but the public health community refuses to do evidence - based studies into best practices to give her practical advice she can actually use.

The women formed a new kind of discussion club - a place where a nursing mother could go to get answers to her questions, draw emotional support and get solid evidence that she wasn't the only woman on Earth ignoring her doctor's advice that formula was better for her child.

To adopt that kind of course in the nuclear age would be evidence only of the bankruptcy of our policy — or of a collective death - wish for the world.»

He adds that the same applies to other endangered species of tropical tree with large fruit and seeds dispersed by birds, as evidence from other fragmented tropical forests around the world shows that seeds of this kind are dispersed only locally.

But the evidence makes it clear we need to broaden our views on dyslexia to include not only the struggles but also the benefits that come from different kinds of thinking.

While there's no evidence that these kinds of attack have been used in the real world, Marta Kwiatkowska at the University of Oxford says it's only a matter of time before we will see them being used.

However, both Goldberg and Albini agreed there is no evidence that this kind of therapy could have treated the patients» sight problems even if carried out correctly and only sparse evidence that adipose cells can differentiate into retinal pigment epithelium or photoreceptor cells, which play a critical role in macular degeneration.

Music really isn't this movie's top priority, and as further evidence, before the band even performs three - quarters of a song in front of a crowd, the screenplay by Ryan Landels has already given us the subplot about the robot, which leads the sisters on a hunt to find some kind of message from Jerrica and Kimber's father to the former (Sorry, Kimber, but only Jerrica gets a posthumous pep talk from dad).

Consequently, school districts lack the kind of research - based evidence necessary to choose among such programs; often the only information they have comes from the program developers themselves.

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.

This is a set of data that is collected; there is not evidence on dogsbite or in the information they cite that a study or any kind of analysis was conducted here — only gathered data that sits.

(8) Less than a week later, Kramer writes another review in which he proclaims, «The kind of work Mr. Close produces is interesting only as evidence of the kind of rubbish that follows in the wake of every turn in the history of taste.»

Photos only hint at the evidence displayed throughout Graphite Drawings, Marden's latest solo exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery in New York and the first of its kind devoted solely to his significant early works on paper.

Nevertheless, the evidence is overwhelming, that Earth not only did not go up in flames but instead it was a very inhabitable place providing favorable conditions for all kinds of living organisms to thrive.

Nature tells me AGW is nonsense — there is as yet NO empirical evidence for AGW, only scientific sophistry of the kind you spew out on this site and computer models with an almost 100 % fail rate.

Schultz, professor of geological sciences at Brown and an impact specialist, said the most provocative evidence for an extraterrestrial impact was the discovery of nanodiamonds, microscopic bits of diamond formed only from the kind of intense pressure you'd get from a comet or meteorite slamming into the Earth.

This kind of «circular arguments» are only assumptions without any evidence in reality.

1) On the basis of climate model calculations IPCC states only what kind of assumtions are needed by means of which the recent warming is made seem probably to be caused by antropogenic CO2 emissions, without any proper, empiric evidence.

On the methane data, when you assume that the only accurate data is the data you want to believe, it is a kind of selective use of evidence that is, as you say, «no better than the deniers.»»

This kind of respect is earned only when the lawyer is very knowledgeable in terms of the laws, the admissible evidence, and everything else important to the criminal and core process of impaired driving cases.

No matter what kind of lawyer you are, documents are a substantial part of what you do, and they may be the only tangible evidence of your legal work.

But, if your client is effectively «deputized» or becomes a «de facto» agent of the state who is called up to be a member of a posse for the police, for example, by using an agreed symbol such as shining a light with a symbol on it on some clouds, at that point, with respect to that matter, the 4th Amendment exclusionary rule and Miranda probably do apply to evidence that your client obtains, and exclusion of that kind of evidence could make prosecution much more difficult, unless the prosecution can successfully make an argument that the other evidence that the illegally obtained evidence leads them to is not «fruit of the poisonous tree» because it would have inevitably been discovered in due course using only the legally obtained evidence.

The new Regulation does create a kind of appeal process internally at the RTDRS, but it is highly discretionary, and applicants who are dissatisfied with RTDRS decisions must still navigate the expensive and procedurally complex Court of Queen's Bench appeal process, which still only allows appeals on questions of law or jurisdiction and does not allow any new evidence.

'» [72] The documents described in (2) above issued by the Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania and of Georgia and by the NOBC and CCJ evidence that, with respect to the regulation of legal services, it would be impossible for a state's review mechanism to provide any kind of «realistic assurance» because, in fact, there is no state review mechanism to speak of — the regulators have abdicated their regulatory responsibilities to persons who can only be described as «active market participants.»

Legal ethics authorities reason that the only effect of that kind of testimony is not to bring out relevant evidence but simply to prejudice the jury against the witness.

«In the present case the circumstances surrounding Mrs Rowlands» arrest and prosecution were of a kind that were liable to induce feelings of humiliation and resentment which can only have been exacerbated by the willingness of the police to give false evidence in support of an unjustified prosecution.