The phrase
"smoking gun" means to have clear evidence or proof that shows someone's guilt or wrongdoing. It refers to a piece of evidence that is so convincing that it cannot be denied.
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One of the most famous
smoking guns for dark matter is the Bullet cluster, shown above.
How else, the firms argued, could you expect to find the one
smoking gun in the midst of a warehouse of documents?
So an unseen 1991 memo, declared to be taken out - of - context, is the
real smoking gun behind all this cruelty and dispute?
Unfortunately, there's not one
smoking gun here we can point to as a cause, and then identify one solution.
It also contains a nasty
little smoking gun that forces all of us to pay for abortion (murder).
There's no
one smoking gun, however, and the relative importance of each culprit seems to vary by region and species.
He also acknowledges that the new work did not identify any «
smoking gun genes» and that schizophrenia genetics is profoundly complex.
Moreover, «further down the litigation road,
apparently smoking guns frequently turn out not to be smoking or even guns».
List smoking guns that show you've used the most important of them in the line of duty.
Common sense reasoning is lazy like that and looks for the
single smoking gun that allows one to easily throw a theory out and find a more plausible explanation..
So, what we have here from Bud Ward is little more than half the story, with the basic idea of trusting Gelbspan as some kind of highly regarded investigative journalist who
found smoking gun proof that skeptic climate scientists are shills paid by the fossil fuel industry to lie to the public.
WFA's «Information Council for the Environment» that Gelbspan so widely touts
as smoking gun evidence of a top - down industry directive «to reposition global warming as theory rather than fact «lasted just six months ** [See Author's 12/19/14 note below] in its entirety, with the actual PR tour being restricted to just three cities in May of 1991 and maybe a single 60 - second national radio ad on Rush Limbaugh's program at that time.
The Keeling curve of CO2 concentration in the Earth's atmosphere since 1959 is the supposed
smoking gun of catastrophic climate change.
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with Smoking Guns proprietary engine (Caliber), Play across platforms through Xbox Live.
If there is no such
smoking gun from the (real) girl, the case (probably) would not be prosecuted in the U.S..
As a rule, climate scientists have never been mistaken for Shakespearean wordsmiths, and they soon found a few poorly - worded emails turned into
smoking guns proving a vast conspiracy to embrace the hoax of manmade climate change.
U.S. Army - funded researchers at the University of California in Los Angles have found a
proverbial smoking gun signature of the long sought - after Majorana particle, and the find, they say, c...
He had initially sent a letter to committee chairman in November after the issue was first raised, but before
smoking gun emails revealed the extent of the bridge closure and the involvement of the Christie administration.
We
present smoking gun evidence that TRE overstated its Yunnan timber investments by approximately $ 900 million.
Five to seven years ago, climate scientists thought they had found two
such smoking guns: one in ice core data going back 650,000 years, and one in Mann's hockey stick using temperature proxy data going back 1,000 years.
Lewis still remains one of the
bigger smoking guns in all of this, which was evident in Ole Miss» initial response from Tuesday:
During closing arguments in the corruption trial against state Sen. Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, a lawyer for the younger Skelos told jurors that the government's case against the former majority leader relies on burdening the jury with heaps of emails, phone calls and witness testimony to distract jurors from the lack of a
supposed smoking gun.
In the
main smoking gun e-mail ProCare offered into evidence, Walker, while advising her team how to fill out staff claim forms,
Of course, concepts are by no
means smoking guns that point to what the company has planned, but with Apple and Samsung seemingly focusing more on smartphone speaker design, it seems possible.
This is just one of a dozen or
so smoking guns of fraud in the hoax called AGW.
But do not kid yourself: The magnitude of placing your own «John Hancock» on these documents is the trigger to your
own smoking gun.
«What seems to be lacking is a present -
day smoking gun,» Florida hedge fund manager Eric Jackson told Bloomberg in February.
And it doesn't get more damning for civil society architecture — herding justices of the courts (including the Supreme Court) into detention, with
alleged smoking guns, after a sting operation, by the secret police.
«This is a
vivid smoking gun of the disruption of a satellite galaxy,» says astronomer Bruce Margon of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.
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