Sentences with phrase «takes on credibility»

Problem is that if a truth or lie is repeated enough it takes on credibility.

Not exact matches

A joint statement this week from more than 60 conservatives, including former attorney general Edwin Meese and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, demanded that Facebook and other tech giants «rectify their credibility with the conservative movement» by explaining why content is taken down and accounts deleted and by including more conservative groups on its list of advisers.

«Then, when they have built credibility within a certain social network by taking a popular, partisan position on an American issue, they can use that platform to talk about issues that the Kremlin does care about,» Schafer said.

Based entirely on anecdotal evidence, however, I believe the press» credibility with senior citizens has taken a hit from which it is unlikely to recover, and it may be entirely due to the election of 2008, when the mainstream media utterly abandoned whatever responsibilities to the public trust to which it still felt obliged, tossed presumptive - nominee Hillary Clinton aside and» rejecting any - and - all discomfiting questions about his experience, background, past - operations, education, friendships or capabilities» hoisted candidate Barack Obama upon their shoulders and carried him into the White House in triumph.

I'm afraid that your «so what, we'll just deal with it... somehow» doesn't quite represent or give credibility to an on - going and ever - evolving problem between the crazies, whether they be Christians or Muslims, who may very often value «death» more than life, and have no problem blowing themselves up and taking us and many other innocents with them.

The Preiss family was fortunate enough to take ownership of the Preiss Imports name once again in 2016, demonstrating the validity and credibility this family on the forefront of importing has maintained over the past fifty - five years.

I just can't see any of the past players such as Henri, Viera or Arteta having the all round experience, status / credibility and qualifications to take on the Arsenal in its current state.

He simply takes a long view on how the fees would work against the credibility of his limited - field event, which was won by Thomas Bjorn of Denmark.

Bringing up women temporarily from 135 to take on a single fight, does nothing to build the division, nor that division champ's credibility.

A disappointing 1 - 1 draw followed, and in a desperate attempt to retain his and his team's credibility, MacLeod blamed their poor form on the fact that the hotel swimming pool had no water in it; meaning his star studded had nowhere to chill out and take their minds off the football.

The site has firm principles — including a refusal to take ads from McDonald's or Nestle, and a ban on ads for formula milk and cosmetic surgery — which have helped it to secure credibility and influence in the U.K. media.

«At some point, Senator Schumer's credibility in talking about national security issues, particularly when the facts are as they are when it relates to homeland security, have to be affected by the position that he's taken on other issues,» Earnest said.

If it wasn't obvious one month ago, it certainly is now: economic credibility will take on cost - of - living issues when Miliband takes on Cameron in the struggle for Downing Street.

Howe's credibility as a witness, however, took a hit on Thursday after it was revealed he disputed a credit card charge for a stay a luxury hotel.

«Senator Schumer's credibility in talking about national security issues... [has] to be affected by positions he's taken on other issues,» Earnest said Wednesday.

The decision to delay the vote marks an acute embarrassment for the President, who had gambled big by presenting holdout House conservatives with a take - it - or - leave it ultimatum Thursday night and put his own credibility on the line.

«At some point, Senator Schumer's credibility in talking about national security issues, particularly when the facts are as they are when it relates to homeland security, have to be affected by the position that he's taken on other issues,» White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.

«So strong and broad is this consensus that a special name has been given to those who take a different view — «deficit - deniers» — and some in the Labour party believe our very credibility as a party depends on hitching ourselves to the consensus view.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest responded on Wednesday, telling reporters in Washington that «Senator Schumer's credibility in talking about national security issues... [has] to be affected by positions he's taken on other issues.»

«I will also just say that at some point, Senator Schumer's credibility in talking about national security issues — particularly when the facts are as they are when it relates to homeland security — have to be affected by the position that he's taken on other issues,» Earnest said.

Kathryn S. Wylde, president of the Partnership for New York City, a business group, said she had often had dealings with Mr. Klein and that his experience at the Education Department «established his ability to take on a difficult challenge in a straightforward, honest way, and enhanced the credibility that he established during his years in Washington as a defender of the public interest.

Cumbo, who had called on the PAC to drop their support of her during the race, said that her right to run her own campaign was taken away by the PAC's endorsement, which threatened to derail her credibility with voters.

CIRM's credibility with the public would also be helped by including on ICOC and various working groups more scientists and patient advocates without ties to institutions funded by CIRM, and by taking other measures to address potential conflicts of interest, the panel said.

After Greenpeace revealed that Willie Soon has taken over $ 1 million in payments from fossil fuel interests on «research» intended to undermine climate science, his credibility has evaporated.

In a hearing on weight loss scams and deceptive advertising for weight loss products, McCaskill remarked that the doctor's «credibility is being maligned by fraudsters and frankly being threatened by the notion that anybody can take an itty - bitty pill to push fat out of their system.»

Hill has established his credibility as a dramatic actor by now, but Franco takes on a challenge I've never seen him attempt before.

by Bill Chambers Those planning on taking in Roland Emmerich's The Day After Tomorrow this weekend solely to judge the credibility of its disaster - movie hijinks would be better off buying a ticket to its competition in several North American markets, Jafar Panahi's Crimson Gold (Talaye sorkh), in which a scenario of inevitable, cyclical doom unfolds with astonishing veracity.

In 2014, the actress said that she was done taking on supporting parts to, essentially, lend credibility to «otherwise flimsy production [s].»

We can say everything we want about how much [credibility] we should invest in a one - time test, but some of the most poignant discussions I've had are with parents who didn't find out until their child was in the seventh or eighth grade that she or he was way behind — not reading up to par, not doing math up to par, and not prepared to take on high - school - level work.

Michael J. Petrilli, the vice president for national programs and policy at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and a former education department official under Spellings, takes this view: «Nothing was happening on the Highly Qualified Teacher provision years ago and she's finally enforcing it, so she's built up credibility with people who care about that provision.

After I while, I gave up on sending work out — too difficult... Although I do believe it took kismet for my work to get any credibility, it's important that I express how hard I labored over this novel.

Harping on the review will only hinder your credibility in the future and take away from the time you could have spent improving and creating content.

The few agents I've had a response from suggested that I take on a «celebrity co-author» even though the book is finished and I have credibility as an expert and a track record.

I can understand their need for authors to have prior sales — it shows both credibility and accountability on the part of the writer and assurance for a good outcome in the risk they take on us.

Parents who cosigned on private loans are feeling the pain by taking hits to their credit scores while simultaneously losing the credibility to qualify for other loans and financial services.

Offering a good selection and taking pains to educate pet owners on the products builds credibility and fosters a strong relationship with customers, she says.

Whether or not news of this will reach the ears of OUYA's development team and result in emulator blocks remains to be seen, but taking no action could definitely hurt the console's credibility and performance in the marketplace — if not result in outright legal action on the part of major first and third party developers who would suddenly have a large, consistent target upon which to vent their emulation frustrations.

On the one hand, by taking journalistic values like credibility and fairness seriously, these groups are able to produce the sorts of coverage that news organizations would if they had the time and resources to do so.

The destruction of a government - funded test of a genetically modified wheat variety in Australia on July 14 threatens to completely marginalize the group, and presumably will undercut its credibility when it takes stands on other issues, from climate to palm oil.

Whether you are gullible enough to accept the figures as accurate depends on how much credibility you put in the multitude of observational measurements taken by different methods over many decades by diverse groups of researchers that form a strong consilience of mutually supporting evidence for the validity of the estimates and the possible errors.

I wasn't relying on credibility to make my point, thus my association with Pat Michaels (and, for full disclosure, my boss) doesn't seem to impact the contents of my comment — that it is easy to take credit in hindsight for a correct forecast, but, if you can't use it to reliably identify a future course, than it is of little good.

Not yet in the headline news is the broad effect that the Volkswagen cheating scandal may have on the corporate social responsibility movement - a movement that has taken at least ten long years to gain any credibility at all and is now vulnerable to losing it in ten short minutes.

There are many uncertainties as to when the glaciers will be entirely gone > Jimbo's link (his 4th) on the Science news story, which is identical to the recent tempest in a teapot about the Himalayan glaciers > At a time when governments are baulking at taking tough measures to combat climate change, this new blow to the credibility of the IPCC could not have come at a worse time.»

But the credibility problem worsens when that person takes on the appearance of trying to inflate the number of sources for the irrelevant material, with a pair of «corroborations» where one of them only cites the identical original source while the other only opens up a Pandora's Box about the entire situation surrounding the — let me emphasize — irrelevant material.

Yet all the authors» examples allege the opposite situation,... Case 12 refers to McKitrick and McIntyre 2005, which focused on the bias arising from using decentered data in a PCA algorithm that is only valid when the data are centered... The authors do not seem to have taken the trouble to properly research the issue, and as such their brief commentary lacks credibility

When you demonstrate that you are willing to take on the sun nuts, you'll gain a measure of credibility.

Companies taking a leadership position on climate bolster their credibility and reputation among stakeholders, including investors, customers, employees, policy makers and environmental groups.

I once led training workshops for students on conflict negotiation, and the key concept to get across to student mediators was that as a mediator, they would have no credibility unless they went out of their way to establish that they weren't «taking sides.»

That the researcher responsible for the study is clearly not a «climate change denier» makes the IPCC's credibility gap all the more significant, and it raises new questions regarding the fundamental credibility of any claim coming from an organization which has relied on shaky science to back its demand for the power to take $ 76 trillion from the economies of the industrialized world and «redistribute» those funds for «green technologies» in the third world.

Those persons who posted these documents and wrote about them before we had a chance to comment on their authenticity should be ashamed of their deeds, and their bad behavior should be taken into account when judging their credibility now and in the future.