Sentences with phrase «overturn things»

Scientists don't overturn things to fit their theories.

Meredith: That's interesting, because it is true that she has been less aggressive in overturning things than people expected.

Not exact matches

He's avoided off - track controversy; the worst thing he probably ever did, for public consumption, was drive too fast; his car overturned into a ditch back in 2009, and Bolt was lucky to avoid serious injury.

Here's the thing: Even if the media mergers above (see chart) come to pass, that wouldn't overturn the kernel truth that fewer people are paying for TV.

There was a great earthquake in Bithynia, and many things were overturned in Niacea.

I suspect the people that made those things illegal are the same ones that are trying to get Roe v Wade overturned.

While in keeping with the overturning of the order of things that is dear to Luke's theology, the rich man doesn't see it this way.

We are being faced not just with gradual shifts in our understanding of ourselves and the world; people experience not just a sense of rapid alteration but of a continual breaking with the past, a perpetual overturning of the established order of things.

My guess would be a lot of tables overturned in areas we'd expect and not expect if he were actually in charge of things.

I'm sure tom that when Jesus went into the temple and overturned the tables and said you have made my house a den of thieves they thought the same thing.

They're good for keeping things fresh and covered but don't have a strong enough grip (on the juice carafes / jars at least) to hold on if the liquid was overturned.

There were a lot of things that Arsenal needed to do right to stand a chance of overturning the home leg defeat against Barcelona when we met again in the Nou Camp tonight.

Liverpool were overturned by Swansea at Anfield in the League Cup during the week, and Rodgers had to turn to his key players to try and salvage things instead of giving players a rest.

Michael Oliver did the right thing in sending him off, and while Bournemouth have appealed to the FA to get the red card rescinded, I can't see it being overturned.

Strange things can happen in the Premier League; Palace, who are bottom but inexplicably overturned champions Chelsea recently, can vouch for that.

I'm thinking easy things here like overturning a child size table and turning one of the living room chairs around.

A reversed pentagram, with two points projecting upwards, is a symbol of evil and attracts sinister forces because it overturns the proper order of things and demonstrates the triumph of matter over spirit.

The Supreme Court, in overturning the conviction, narrowed what could be considered an «official act» when related to accusations of corruption — only concrete, formal government actions, not things like setting up meetings or other acts of political courtesies are «official acts,» the court said.

But the Supreme Court, in overturning the conviction, narrowed what could be considered an «official act» when related to accusations of corruption — only concrete, formal government actions, not things like setting up meetings or other acts of political courtesies are «official acts,» the court said.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan isn't terribly worried about the U.S. Supreme Court possibly overturning Roe v. Wade, saying: «I don't really see things changing in the state of New York.

«The Speaker refuses to apologize for overturning the will of the people, the slush - fund scandal, and things in her professional life,» said former congressman Anthony Weiner, noting later that, «anyone on this stage who helped [Bloomberg] get that third term should not get a promotion.»

Changing things unsettles everybody, so it takes something really egregious, like Brown v. Board of Education overturning Plessy v. Furgeson only after it became obvious that separate was never equal.

«What is particularly missing at this time is her coming out in public, meeting her constituents, talking to TV cameras, explaining what happened, perhaps being a little humble about all of this and giving a satisfactory explanation to her constituents and the wider Conservative family to be quite frank, because speaking to people from the West Midlands region where she is an MP, these things do have a knock - on effect and there are other marginal seats far closer to her constituency where people have got Labour majorities to overturn which may be more difficult if the local Conservative politician is seen as tainted and not having justified their actions and also I gather that Conservative Party HQ has had party donors from the region expressing concern that she hasn't satisfactorily justified what she has done.»

The first thing it does obviously is it brings notice that we'd like to have the election overturned for many reasons of irregularities, illegalities, voter packing, misuse of public funds, a whole laundry - list of violations.

During one examination years after he lost his sight, researchers were flabbergasted to see TN carefully navigate a hallway full of overturned chairs, scattered boxes and other obstacles without colliding with a single thing.

They provide the setting for overturning old, decayed ways of doing or seeing things, and the opportunity to do the groundwork necessary for what lies ahead.

You can see some of this bilateral emotional intelligence, the urge to de-amplify things, peeking through in The Avengers when Tony tries to reach Pepper Potts on the phone toward the end of the film, or when Thor tries to hide a painful injury as he lands in the street, steadying himself for half a second against an overturned car.

Pacific Rim: Uprising Slightly better than the last one — it's shorter for one thing — this film will nonetheless be a chore for anyone who doesn't relish computer - generated monsters fighting each other and overturning office buildings.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A stunning decision to overturn teacher tenure laws in California has New York City parents mobilizing to seek the same thing here.

The Torch and BlackBerry OS 6 take what BlackBerry's already doing and move it forward slightly — they're not reinventing, overturning, or blowing up things.

One common trait that we shared was an irresistible temptation (maybe even a compulsion) to tamper with things, to overturn, problematize, extend, dilate, contaminate, etc., the usual meanings of things.

When Aussies are really serious they do things like overturn decades of accepted medical consensus aka «false beliefs» by using Science to take our collective knowledge another step further.

In particular, he basically admitted that his was a minority viewpoint within the climate science community but mumbled various things about Thomas Kuhn and how hard it is to overturn an established paradigm... and something about public choice theory.]

Thus, some heat gets converted to kinetic energy, but that gets converted back to heat, either by viscosity or by thermally - indirect circulations that produce APE while pulling heat downward in the process (LHSO: Ferrel cell (driven by extratropical storm track activity), Planetary - scale overturning in the stratosphere and mesosphere (includes Brewer - Dobson circulation (I'm not sure if the whole thing is the Brewer - Dobson circulation or if only part of it is)-RRB-, some motions in the ocean; LVO: wind driven mixing of the boundary layer and of the upper ocean (though mixing itself tends to destroy the APE that the kinetic energy would create by forcing heat downward)-RRB-.

In fields as diverse as parapsychology and climate science, that aphorism has been invoked to say that «your claim is extraordinary (because it conflicts with my a priori beliefs about «how things are») so it requires extraordinary evidence (and no evidence is sufficiently extraordinary to overturn my a priori beliefs)».

[Response: They are two different things: Rossby is talking about the Gulf Stream proper, the RAPID project and our paper concern the Atlantic overturning circulation.

Scientists in the field are working hard to uncover such things — every scientist relishes the thought of uncovering new data that overturns current understanding.

The ups and downs, pauses and accelerations come from surface air temperatures being a consequence of sea surface temperatures, which are variable over decades due to ocean currents, overturning - ie things like ENSO, PDO.

So, sure, what you call consensus, the work done by people devoting years of their lives to this and acknowledged to be brilliant at it, and that I tried to knock down by looking at other sources and using my own reasoning and always failed to find sufficient fault with to overturn, might be wrong about this one thing.

[Sorry, McIntyre published a trivial paper that, by force of necessity, has been trumpeted by dishonest obstructionists like Watts as overturning all of climate science (i.e. «The Hockey Stick») when it did no such thing.

Being a scientist means, among other things, not wasting one's time reading every random bit of «research» that pops up in the blogosphere making claims to have overturned well established facts.

It wouldn't take long to make a list of things we only recently learned that overturned previous «settled science».

One other thing to point out about the Younger Dryas / Impact theory... They call upon the rapid break up of a portion of the Laurentide Ice Sheet culminating with the original freshwater routing hypothesis to explain the 1.3 kyr reduction in Atlantic overturning circulation.

That ruins the entire thing, and I am sold on Miskolczi's paper that because of the conservation of energy, Eu at the top of the troposphere must be 1/2 of Su or hydrostatic stabilty will be affected and lower the effective emission height of the troposphere from convective overturn and release latent heat and clouds which have the same effect.

The thing is that if you are a scientist (as opposed to an idjit pretending to be a scientist on a blog), you know better than to attach much importance to a single paper, especially one that purports to overturn a theory that has been established for a century.

Glad we got that out of the way because I was starting to worry about that whole climate change thing, but now that I know how easily consensus is overturned, an oil company funded lackey and some pundit have me convinced that it's all a load of hooey.

Phil pointed out that we need concrete things to ask for, because during the last Parliament Labour were critical of the transformation of legal aid, but when it came down to making promises to overturn specific cuts, more often than not they did not deliver.

Last week the Court of Appeal, ruling in two conjoined cases on disciplinary proceedings brought against solicitors, Wingate v SRA; SRA v Malins [2018] EWCA Civ 366, overturned Mr Justice Mostyn's ruling that integrity and honesty are conceptually the same thing.

Among other things, the majority noted that the panel decision had overturned «nearly a dozen jury fact findings including infringement, motivation to combine, the teachings of prior art references, commercial success, industry praise, copying, and long - felt need across three different patents.

This article makes things clearer: The case could have had an impact because it challenged the clemency procedures of the president, specifically in regard to foreigners, but the court could not have overturned the death sentences.