Sentences with phrase «scant evidence»

... Nearly $ 18 billion spent over two decades later, there's scant evidence of success.

Control orders put people, not convicted of any crime, under virtual house arrest based on scant evidence.

And even if fears about «chemicals» polluting water sources have some foundation, there seems to be scant evidence for them.

Some large - scale demonstrations would be great (although there's still scant evidence anyone is serious about paying to test the technology at full industrial scale).

In contrast, there is scant evidence suggesting that a television screen holds the same attraction to cats in general.

-- There is scant evidence yet to suggest that on an industry - wide basis firms with a female partner are more likely to invest in startups with a female founder.

However, so far scant evidence supports this claim.

There is scant evidence even behind this claim, and policymakers should be cautious in taking their results seriously.

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.

But there's still scant evidence to back up such assertions.

The administration proposed eliminating the $ 2.4 billion program, arguing that it is «poorly targeted and spread thinly across thousands of districts with scant evidence of impact.»

Duguid, however, said he's seen scant evidence from Ottawa so far that it's open to rethinking the job grant program.

Members increasingly criticized three aspects of what seemed to them arrogant behavior of pastor and church: neither Sid nor the congregation adequately participated in Methodist conference functions; they gave scant evidence of traditional Christian piety; they did not, except in some personal ways, concern themselves with the poor.

An analysis by New Scientist finds scant evidence of data abuse, but does show persistent efforts to suppress work by climate sceptics.

Brulle provided scant evidence of the public's ignorance, but he gave lots of numbers purportedly exposing its source: center - right nonprofit groups that form a «climate change counter-movement.»

Painting — in scant evidence in previous conceptually driven biennales — is well represented; with Chris Ofili's inclusion providing a welcome flash of populism amid the more esoteric choices.

«Despite the rising presence of online credit recovery programs, there exists scant evidence as to their effectiveness in increasing high school graduation rates, or their impact on other outcomes of interest,» notes Ly Le on the blog of the Albert Shanker Institute.

Cox offers scant evidence for this claim, perhaps confident that any intelligent reader will reflexively dismiss reports of supernatural phenomena.

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.

But this can blind us to the fact that, historically, claims linked to neuroscience have often turned out to be backed by scant evidence.

But scant evidence bears out that traditional optimism, according to molecular biologist Adil Shamoo of the University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore, co-author of the textbook Responsible Conduct of Research and the founder and, for nearly 2 decades, the editor of the journal Accountability in Research.

Despite all the rovers, satellites, and telescopes scrutinizing Mars, scientists have uncovered scant evidence of life there.

Yet in 1998, our state voted to bar bilingual education, despite scant evidence to support the idea that forcing students into English - only programs will help them gain language proficiency.

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.

The budget says this program «is poorly targeted and spread thinly across thousands of districts with scant evidence of impact.»

Indeed, I've seen scant evidence that the powers - that - be at NBPTS even care much about such mundane stuff as content knowledge.

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.

Although there are scattered reports of mass killings of dodos for provisioning of ships, archaeological investigations have hitherto found scant evidence of human predation on these birds.

Since 1992, acquiring companies have typically delivered total returns that lag those of their peers and provide scant evidence of real value creation.

The report says that in contrast to the United States, there is still scant evidence of a significant supply overhang in Canada.

But critics caution the identity of the fossil hinges on scant evidence, and that the implications of the find for understanding the rise of our species are limited.

In practice there is as yet scant evidence for this in the modern ocean, but it is favored explanation for geochemical changes associated with the end of the last ice age.

Sadly, scant evidence exists that skill can be identified from performance alone.6 That said, we shouldn't ignore past performance altogether.

For now, scant evidence supports any claims about EOS performing better than bitcoin or Ethereum.

For example, an April 2017 article in a widely read national periodical (U.S. News & World Report), commenting on this proposed cut, correctly notes that the current administration sees professional development ``... spread thinly across thousands of districts with scant evidence of impact.»

And while there is scant evidence to suggest the Waterloo, Ont., firm is set to revisit its glory days (its valuation was $ 83.4 billion in 2008; it's $ 4.3 billion now), in 2016 it took the bold step of redefining its identity as a smaller, more focused and, arguably, more sustainable business.

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

«There is still scant evidence that we're at a turning point in synchronized growth,» said Christian Keller, global head of economics research at Barclays Plc. «We think there has been a soft patch.»

Sometimes there is scant evidence to know what some words, phrases or even stories meant when they were written thousands of years ago.

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.

«There is scant evidence that Jesus died on a cross to found a new religion» I think this is a matter of definition.

«There is... scant evidence that Cone or other radicals altered any doctrines in the typical black Baptist or Methodist Church,» and when radicals supported black power or violence, Fowler says, «views such as Cone's fell outside the main body of black Christians.»

However, despite winning over Westminster with his heroics on Strictly Come Dancing, there is scant evidence that the shadow chancellor - turned - TV star would transform Labour's poll ratings overnight.

Some reports are likely genuine (hate is always with us), but there's scant evidence of any surge.

So far, many analysts say, there is scant evidence that voters will penalize congressional candidates because of Donald Trump.

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.