Sentences with phrase «smoking guns for»

The goddaughter of indicted Councilman Ruben Wills delivered a smoking gun for prosecutors on Tuesday, testifying she did campaign work for the Queens pol while being improperly paid by his nonprofit.

«It's a smoking gun for modern human interaction, but we haven't yet found the bullet,» he says.

It's also still unknown whether any other bursts have twisted waves at high frequencies — the smoking gun for strong magnetic fields.

For a long time, there was the notion that finding oxygen and methane in a planetary atmosphere would be a smoking gun for life.

This feature is regarded as the smoking gun for proving their existence and is a crucial step towards their use as a building block for future quantum computers.

These results are not only a smoking gun for inflation, they also tell us when inflation took place and how powerful the process was.»

Scientists had to wait until a new, higher - performance mass spectrometer was developed to successfully identify, in 2010, tiny excesses of 235U that could be the smoking gun for the presence of 247Cm in the early solar system.

This makes the enthusiasm for the 2014 findings understandable: at the press conference, they were called «grand slam», «missing link» and «smoking gun for inflation» by Marc Kamionkowski of Johns Hopkins University, who is not a member of the BICEP Collaboration.

So, this paper probably shouldn't be seen as a smoking gun for global warming, nor should confirmation of the results in the paper be seen as a crucial test for global warming theory in general.

What I think is funny is when there is a heat wave, or drought, or a hurricane it's a smoking gun for AGW.

I know you think this is some kind of smoking gun for AGW, but sorry, it» ss not.

The smoking gun for «FOI poeple» is that routing headers have been stripped off all the emails.

«We don't have a smoking gun for our theory, but we sure have a lot of shell casings,» Schultz said.

If you look at the blocking high that was sitting off the coast of Greenland all winter and the La Nina jet stream, its not of much concern and is hardly a smoking gun for global warming.

The smoking gun for at least SOME contribution from CO2 is the magnitude of the 1970 - 2000 warming and our understanding of the relative strengths of forcings to date.

Has the smoking gun for Colony Collapse Disorder been found?

What would the estinmates of increased risk be for our continued CO2 emissions, and does the work portend to find a real smoking gun for a tipping point?

30 years with no smoking gun for the Lindzen's, Pielke's, Spencer's and Curries of this world to believe in, says that there are no convincing arguments yet, arguments yes convincing no.

You say they won't find a smoking gun for any of the seven.

There is a theoretcial link between increase in both variance and persistence and forewarning of climatic transitions and that some retrospective candidates have been identified but so far no smoking gun for impending transition be clearly apparent.

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He has now returned to the financial data firm he founded but is hardly giving up his high - wattage policy activism — leading campaigns for gun control and against smoking and obesity.

If there is no smoking gun regards to this weeks statement for a June hike then you could see the dollar come under some defensive pressure, Rai said.

Early Marker: Creation in 2000 of his stock charter Madea, a «God - fearing, gun - toting, pot - smoking, loudmouthed grandmother» who triggered a series of plays and provided a springboard for Perry's film and TV career.

I've been searching for textual references to back up this assertion, with mixed - ish results and no real smoking gun, but whatever — the fundamental holds: Central bankers should offer opinions on what fiscal policy ought to be when fiscal policy is a problem for them.

If by some fluke I do find myself heaven - bound on May 21 in a puff of smoke while my ailing mother and father are left down here with no one to care for them as the Horsemen ride over the hill shootin'their 6 - guns, I'm gonna demand a return flight so I can stand guard in front of their house with my NFR - approved lariat, ready for some ropin».

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.

The inquiry failed to find a smoking gun which would see Mr Hunt ejected from his job, but the various emails, texts and phone calls proved highly embarrassing to the media secretary, who cut a hesitant and nervous figure for the duration of the session.

The Labour party has begun its own investigation into the Abrahams donor scandal as the Electoral Commission and commentators look for the smoking gun.

ALBANY — Pro-gun GOP lawmakers are smoking mad that they voted for millions of dollars in funding for the SAFE Act — the state's strict gun - control law — claiming they didn't know the spending was hidden in state budget bills.

Other legal experts said it's unclear whether Bharara is searching for some sort of smoking gun — a direct kickback or an explicit threat or promise — or simply trying to make a case that what he calls the «show me the money» culture of Albany can prompt an indictment.

Assemblyman Sheldon Silver — one of the most powerful men in Albany for two decades and a constant in shaping state policy under five governors — was found guilty Monday of selling his office for legal fees, capping a trial that cast new light on the capital's lax ethics laws and handing federal prosecutors a big win in a case that had lacked a smoking gun.

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.

«He didn't answer direct questions, the ban on future gun shows, the rise of anti-Semitism, and his whole proposal for the airport, which is a smoke screen to cover costs that later we will wind up paying anyway,» added Gloria Strauss, another Larchmont resident.

«People are likely to react with little fear to certain types of objectively dangerous risk that evolution has not prepared them for, such as guns, hamburgers, automobiles, smoking, and unsafe sex, even when they recognize the threat at a cognitive level,» says Carnegie Mellon University researcher George Loewenstein, whose seminal 2001 paper, «Risk as Feelings,» (pdf) debunked theories that decision making in the face of risk or uncertainty relies largely on reason.

And, indeed, in further experiments, they showed that the protein interacts directly with molecular structures known to stabilize heterochromatin — revealing a kind of smoking gun that, for the first time, directly links mutated WRN protein to heterochromatin destabilization.

The observations revealed the fading afterglow of a kilonova explosion, providing the «smoking gun» evidence for the merger hypothesis.

We think we have at least a smoking gun, if not the smoking gun, for why this particular storm made a tornado when it did, and we think there's a good argument for the case that a secondary surge was causing it.

«Despite scattered evidence from years of study, we're still searching for the «smoking gun'that identifies the most important reservoir host species of Ebola,» says Kevin Olival, a researcher at the EcoHealth Alliance in New York City.

It will scour the cosmos for protons, electrons and gamma rays, which could reveal smoking - gun signals of dark matter.

Burch says this mechanism for accelerating particles is the «smoking gun» for reconnection in action, although researchers have yet to pin down the source of the electric field.

This detection may finally provide the «smoking gun» that PAHs are indeed spread throughout interstellar space and account for the mysterious infrared light astronomers had been observing.

Olson said the giant impact argument for the formation of the moon is the most prevalent scientific hypothesis on how Earth satellite was formed, but it is still considered unproven because there's been no «smoking gun» evidence.

«They are looking for that smoking gun.»

Many scientists hailed the result as a «smoking gun» for inflation.

Supposed «smoking - gun» observation for dark matter can be explained by modified gravity, physicists claim

«We think we have the «smoking gun» for merger - triggered AGN,» says team member and graduate student Michael Koss of the University of Maryland, College Park.

And if, García - Bellido says, any black hole in a LIGO merger proves to weigh less than our sun, this would be a «smoking gun» for primordial black holes, as such relatively minuscule black holes are thought impossible to form from stars.

«This is unambiguous smoking - gun evidence to confirm theoretical predictions for the conduction of electrons in these materials,» said Purdue University doctoral student Yang Xu, lead author of a paper appearing this week in the journal Nature Physics.

«We've found the smoking gun evidence for inflation and we've also produced the first image of gravitational waves across the sky.»

The World Anti-Doping Agency funded research to develop a plasticizer test that would catch cheating cyclists, but so far it's not the smoking gun that many have hoped for.