Sentences with phrase «undermine confidence in the results»

Thompson, who says DNA testing is very reliable, warns that «even a low rate of error can significantly undermine confidence in the results if you are doing hundreds of thousands of these tests.»

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Rather, such practices undermine confidence in the economy by selectively giving away tax advantages and producing an unfair result.

This effort resulted in two subsequent omnibus budget bills passed in 2012, which further undermined the public's confidence in the NEB and its pipeline review process.

By turning John F. Kennedy» the embodiment of pragmatic, rationalist, results - oriented anticommunist liberalism» into a mythical figure whose idealism could never be recaptured, the hagiographers helped undermine the confidence in progress that had once characterized the liberalism of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Kennedy himself.

The poets who came of age after the modernist revolution, on the other hand, have been more cautious, second - guessing, self - conscious; and as a contemporary poet has complained, one result of modernism is that «generation after generation of poets have had confidence in their place undermined.

This can result in prices being increased significantly, which in itself can undermine the player's confidence as they feel a pressure to perform because of their fee.

A lack of understanding about how breastfeeding works can result in people saying things that may well unintentionally undermine a mother's confidence in her ability to take care of her baby.

This can distort parents» perceptions and undermine their confidence in breastfeeding, with the result that far too many children miss out on its many benefits.»

Mothers» supply of breastmilk is resilient, however, chaos, displacement and emotional strain, coupled with commonly held misconceptions about how breastfeeding works, can undermine a mother's confidence and result in less frequent feeding.

This can distort parents» perceptions and undermine their confidence in breastfeeding, with the result that far too many children miss out on its many benefits,» says Dr Francesco Branca, Director of WHO's Department of Nutrition for Health and Development.

Undermining parents» confidence surely is going to result in change for the better, right?

As a result, the episode undermined confidence in the process of coalition formation, which is the foundation of electoral competition in Kenya.

«I have to assume that it is the result of a coordinated disinformation campaign aimed not only at undermining ACORN's work, but also as a part of a far broader effort to corrode public confidence in the electoral process... It is a simple three - step process.

Though the researchers don't report evidence of attackers exploiting the vulnerability, Sweeney, Yoo and Zang said the fear is that it might be used to either undermine confidence in elections or even to swing the result in favor of a particular candidate.

Indeed, at a time when parents are being admonished to develop their children's emotional and social intelligences as much as their academic ones, it may well undermine parents» confidence in a results - based accountability system if all that system does is measure academic outcomes.

Many changes made over a short period of time can undermine parents» confidence in the school, create a change in perception locally about the school and result in further reductions in pupil numbers.

Once he starts expressing strong opinions on the the results of the modelling, biased in one direction, he undermines confidence in the entire process.

In doing so, it cited the three reasons behind that rule, namely: (1) the need for the domestic court to know precisely what it is agreeing to recognize and enforce; (2) the need to avoid the injustice that will result if the foreign order that is enforced is subsequently changed; and (3) the risk of undermining public confidence should a domestic enforcement order be granted, only to have its foundation — the foreign order — subsequently disappear.

«The resulting lack of diversity undermines public confidence in the courts and creates a jurisprudence uninformed by a broad range of experience.»

Former Gov. Brewer «loses» first election in 35 years with dubious results; AZ State Treasurer demands recount NEW YORK, NY — Disputed results due to technical malfunctions at Saturday's Arizona GOP State Convention further undermines public confidence in the fairness of the Republican nominating contest, as former Arizona Governor Jan Brewer says she was cheated out of the contest and the...