Sentences with phrase «reports at face value»

No one knows whether tornadoes have increased in number or intensity, since the aforementioned changes in reporting practices «make the intensity question harder to answer,» Brooks said, adding, «If you take the dataset of reports at face value, it appears intensity has decreased over the years, but there are a number of things that have led to lower ratings for the strongest tornadoes.»

«If we take David Nicholson's almost unbelievable claim that he knew nothing about these major reports at face value, he has directed our attention to others to find out who buried these potent reports, putting Labour's political health above patient safety.»

We have all learned to ask for whom scientists work before we accept their reports at face value.

If you were to take the excellent Jim Pickard's report at face value, you would conclude that innumerable shifty recruitment consultants are queuing up around the back of Labour Party HQ, signing up unsuspecting politicos for the public affairs industry.

Teacher Supply, Demand, and Shortages in the U.S.» Although initial coverage mainly took the report at face value, others have started to push back.

It is so easy to accept anything said or reported at face value because it philosophically aligns with one's own beliefs.

I start by accepting the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report at face value, although I shall return to this towards the end.

If one were to consider everything in the Wegman report at face value and also consider all the independent bodies of evidence in climate science, we reach the undeniable conclusion that global warming is real.

If you accept Karen's report at face value - which I'm not telling you to do - the fact that you can't tell when she's «gone» during sex means either that she is a fantastic actress or you don't have much experience being close to the people you love.

Not exact matches

The paper also got a very painful reminder of how dangerous it can be to accept what politicians say at face value, when its reporting on the lead - up to the Iraq War turned out to be a tissue of lies fed to one of its reporters.

At the end of the day, it's not about if sales development reports to sales, marketing, or the CEO, it's about what's working to communicate your brand's value and how your company provides a solution to a problem that your customers are facing.

Clearly Monaco still didn't think that we offered enough but don't take the reported # 105 million at face value.

So I am taking the Sky Sports report about the Borussia Dortmund and Germany defender Benedikt Howedes at face value.

The Financial Times recently reported that PSG could face sanctions after UEFA's preliminary investigations uncovered a sponsorship contract that was valued at around $ 200 million was «overstated.»

The Financial Times reported that the French capital outfit could face sanctions after UEFA's preliminary investigations uncovered a sponsorship contract that was valued at around $ 200 million was «overstated.»

In the wake of a report showing the difficulties for average fans to buy concert and sports tickets at face value, two state senators — Bard Hoylman and Daniel Squadron — are calling for a legislative hearing into the matter.

ALBANY — In the wake of a report showing the difficulties for average fans to buy concert and sports tickets at face value, two state senators are calling for a legislative hearing into the matter.

«The state's facilities siting committee really took the (casino) vendors forecasts at face value,» said Barrow, whose report was commissioned by Mohawk Valley EDGE, the economic development agency in Oneida County.

Even less dramatic reports generally accepted Tan's and Humphrey's explanations at face value.

At least in some cases, and especially in the instance of Sir Dan Moynihan of Harris - with its unblemished record of good or outstanding Ofsted reports and its at - face - value impressive performance in league tables - the argument can go along the lines of «they're worth it»At least in some cases, and especially in the instance of Sir Dan Moynihan of Harris - with its unblemished record of good or outstanding Ofsted reports and its at - face - value impressive performance in league tables - the argument can go along the lines of «they're worth it»at - face - value impressive performance in league tables - the argument can go along the lines of «they're worth it».

However, if a response only looked to me like it MIGHT have contained an error or two (such as a misplaced decimal point), I went ahead and took that author's reported data at face value.

Some companies pull reports, some take your statement of no prior claims at face value.

If the debt was settled for face value, that tells people reading your report that, well, you were very late and only paid under duress, but at least you did make good on the debt in full.

As for the U.S. financial system - particularly major banks - I am continually perplexed by the juxtaposition of tens of millions of underwater mortgages and millions of delinquent and unforeclosed homes, coupled with a set of FASB accounting rules (revised at the height of the recent crisis) that allows these debts to be carried at face value upon the discretion of the banks that report the data.

The report suggests Trump adviser Stephen Schwarzman's recent reassurances on NAFTA should not be taken at face value because the softwood lumber dispute might unleash a round of tit - for - tat tariffs.

(When reviewing the incident reports, as the EPA itself makes clear, these incident reports are not investigated or validated by the Agency for accuracy in any manner; they are taken at face value and no efforts made to screen out demonstrably false or otherwise inaccurate reports.)

If taken at face value based on media reports (at this point, I've yet to find a full copy of the report) this appears to be no exception.

Nintendo has neither confirmed, nor denied this report, so take it at face value...

Nintendo has neither confirmed, nor denied this report, so take it at face value for right now.

They also prey on the fact that the majority of us are most likely going to take things at face value and will not do the necessary research to verify and vet any of the «facts» or assertions in the reports.

Taking at face value the IPCC's 1990 warning of 3 °C / century warming, I wrote a 330 page report on using solar thermal technologies to redress that predicted anthropogenic warming (Hagen & Kaneff 1991).

An article with a distorted quote from a climate report published in 2008 and with an alleged quote by Phil Jones in the third person about himself coming from second or third hand, a crowd of «skeptics» in the comment section, including you, who are taking all of this at face value without doing any fact checking and who see themselves confirmed in their preconceived views by this, and you are trying to sell this to me now as «common knowledge».

You only have been gullible enough to take at face value what the «original WUWT report» reported.

It was a straightforward paper reporting the trends of humidity in the middle and upper troposphere as they (the trends) appear at face value in the NCEP monthly - average reanalysis data.

So you did see the claim in the IPCC report, and yet you, a science journalist, and someone who had spent 15 years researching water security, didn't think to investigate where the claim — that you had previously regarded as dubious, and controversial — had been substantiated, but decided to take at face value?

Students in New York Law School's Program in Law and Journalism look at legal stories in the mainstream news media, evaluate the reporting, and probe further, questioning facts and statements in the coverage that someone who hasn't studied law might take at face value.

Findings in this heavily litigated area are often predicated on erroneous clinical assumptions such as: that doctors accept uncritically and at face value what the client says about their history (HE (DRC — credibility and psychiatric reports) Democratic Republic of Congo [2004] UKIAT 00321); that only psychiatrists can diagnose conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (HH (Ethiopia) v SSHD [2007] EWCA Civ 306, [2007] All ER (D) 259 (Mar)-RRB-; and that doctors do not consider alternative explanations, including fabrication when, in fact, this is integrated into medical training and has always been a specified requirement of the IP (para 105 (f)-RRB-.

Some companies pull reports, some take your statement of no prior claims at face value.

Hope A. Comisky of law firm Pepper Hamilton LLP reports that employers are conducting more frequent background checks on job applicants, indicating that employers are no longer accepting resume claims at face value.

My only qualm with the report is that it takes too much at face value the claims of a consortium of California school districts called CORE (Our Sacramento district used to be part of it but, thankfully, we pulled out over a year ago.