Sentences with phrase «to bolster one's case»

Helping bolster the case for SUVs, the performance of these vehicles is now on par with their lighter sedan counterparts, police say.

The findings could help bolster the case for an interest - rate increase when policy makers next meet in two weeks.

If the intention of the authors was to bolster the case against homebirth, it has certainly back fired.

Cash back and other rewards points bolster the case for credit cards over debit cards.

The fact that some of the big exchanges have begun to take interest have done a lot to bolster the case for bitcoin as a permanent fixture in finance.

Video and photographic documentation (even a cell phone photo) will help bolster your case.

Now, a new paper bolsters that case with a mathematical model, proving that the old hypothesis is still fresh.

Moreover, they continue to buy back a lot of stock, further bolstering the case for continued dividend growth in that range.

The Galileo mission to Jupiter bolstered the case in 1999, showing for instance that Europa is scarred by long cracks that may periodically open up and let water reach the surface.

The findings bolster the case for banning BPA from use in materials that come in contact with food and beverages, such as can linings and baby bottles, the group said in a letter to the Food and Drug Administration.

Several reports released in 2007 bolstered the case of those claiming the Bush administration stifles scientists and attempts to alter their research findings.

Newton doesn't bolster your case.

In an email interview with Newsweek, lead author Gaël Choblet, from the French National Center for Scientific Research, said that while he can not speculate on the presence of alien life on Enceladus, their timescale for hydrothermal activity does bolster the case that microbial life could emerge.

The study bolsters the case for wildlife advocacy groups pushing for years to have the animal added to the endangered species list amid concerns about global warming.

Yesterday's YouGov poll bolstered his case massively as the only Labour candidate who can topple Boris Johnson, and at this stage I don't see anyone else doing that.

Richard Sherman further bolstered his case as the best cornerback in the game, returning an interception for a touchdown just before the half and sending the Seahawks to the locker room with the momentum and a 10 - 7 lead.

Stronger retail sales bolster that case, although StatsCan noted that if not for automobile sales, retail trade would have been little changed in May.

But the potential for instability, international sanctions and arbitrary political decisions affecting Russia's exports bolsters the case for more than a dozen liquefied natural gas terminals proposed for the British Columbia coast.

Experts told Business Insider on Wednesday that Comey's written remarks for testimony, published on the committee's website, «absolutely bolster the case for obstruction of justice.»

He's only bolstering the case for obstruction.

But the unemployment rate's fall to 5.1 percent from 5.3 percent in July bolstered the case that the job market was returning to a healthier state, similar to conditions before the recession.

Still, supporters of public financing believe today's ruling bolsters their case for a statewide system.

What few have noted is how this affair bolsters the case for electoral reform.

FBI agents and prosecutors in New York believe the video bolstered their case that nothing was done wrong while Justice Department prosecutors believe the video was proof of wrongdoing on the officer's part.

The announcement, made Wednesday by Senate Republicans, seeks to bolster the case Felder will remain part of the GOP conference in the chamber — a crucial boost for lawmakers there to maintain the majority.

Satbir Singh, the chief executive of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, said the figure bolstered the case for a full public inquiry.

Two board members, Buffalo mayor Byron Brown and SEIU secretary treasurer Mike Fishman, heard testimony from workers, labor leaders, business owners and academics mostly decrying the working and living conditions of minimum wage fast food workers and endorsing economic theories bolstering the case for a substantial increase in the minimum wage.

It also bolsters the case that there once was life on Mars.

The discovery bolsters the case for significant amounts of water at the moon's poles, a potential resource for human explorers.

Ground - based telescopes bolster the case for hazes emanating from Ceres's mysterious bright spots

New Maps of Mercury Show Icy Looking Craters on the Solar System's Innermost Planet A NASA spacecraft bolsters the case that ice lines the inside of polar craters on Mercury

Even if this round of flight tests bolsters the case for the use of NASA Langley's bug coatings, it will probably be quite some time before they end up on commercial airliners.

New observations bolster the case that galactic cosmic rays spring from the remains of stellar explosions

To bolster their case even more, the researchers report that in some of the specimens, they were able to visualize not only the macroscopic outlines of feathers but also the microscopic shapes of melanosomes that had long ago disintegrated.

The new result bolsters the case that the Higgs, which was discovered at a different atom smasher, exactly fits the standard model predictions.

NASA's James Hansen bolstered the case for global warming and spoke out against government censorship.

A July 1 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences bolsters the case against language's influence by showing that people with different native tongues organize events in the same order — even if that order is different from the one dictated by their native grammar.

Dubbed the reactor antineutrino anomaly, that deficit bolstered the case for a sterile neutrino, as it suggested that the antineutrinos were morphing into the undetectable sterile form.

Studies of normal chicken embryos bolstered the case.

Overall, the research bolstered the case that the PKal pathway can be targeted by drugs independently of the VEGF pathway.

[1] New evidence from Louisiana and North Carolina bolsters the case for the premise of the guidance, suggesting that more severe disciplinary outcomes for black students are due in part to discriminatory practice, intended or not.

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Not only would this save money in the long term by focusing on prevention rather than more costly remediation, it would target Title I program evaluations on a single, research - proven strategy and thus bolster the case for increased future Title I funding.

Exxon bolstered its case with more than 60 pages of annotated research papers and excerpts from the most recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the leading international body on the subject.

We think this will bolster our case when the vote comes up on the bill.)

Prosecutors bolstered their case with the testimony of state police chemist Thomas Pacewicz, who conducted a chemical analysis of the shirt and pants Lee was wearing on the night of the fire, as well as the remains of a plastic jug and rubber glove found inside the cabin.