Sentences with phrase «up against the evidence»

Given that much of it is private, most people here can rest assured in the knowledge that if her claims did not hold up against this evidence, these people would speak out publicly here and / or privately to Julie.

Let's see how well my default views stack up against the evidence.

How does that statement stack up against the evidence?

Not exact matches

The Republican presidential nominee held a campaign rally in Ryan's home state of Wisconsin on Monday in which the crowd chanted «Paul Ryan sucks» and Trump railed against what he called «corrupt» media and a «rigged» election system — a frequent accusation the Manhattan billionaire has brought up without evidence.

The Republican nominee offered up coverage of a spate of recent sexual - assault allegations against him as supposed evidence the media was rigged against him.

Regulatory changes had been in the wind for some time as the evidence against the program built up, yet employers relied on the lobbying efforts of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business to maintain the program rather than taking steps to improve domestic recruitment and training efforts or adjust wages and benefits to attract workers.

As evidence continues to stack up against sugar, consumers are looking for ways to have their cake and eat it too — literally.

While people who are breastfed are less likely to grow up to be obese, as the World Health Organization has noted, studies so far have found no evidence the act of breastfeeding offers protection against obesity.

Charges made against Paul Manafort, Rick Gates and Michael Flynn are backed up by evidence.

The many holes in the Nunes memo's reasoning and evidence could end up undermining the case against the Russia probe.

As for the lawsuits against Gawker Media, «the evidence has built up over time that there are questions that are unanswered here,» Mr. Denton said.

There is ample evidence for the existence of God, what you decide to do with this evidence is ultimately up to you, but do not claim that there is none... and I would submit to you that many people believe many things without evidence every single day... but do not lump all people of faith into one basket... I have personal proof that God exists, but proof for me may not be proof for you, some people can see something with their own eyes and still deny it, that is why I said it is ultimately up to you to decide what you believe... there is much evidence both for and against the existence of God, you need to decide which evidence you choose to believe...

On Thursday the UN Security Council unanimously agreed to set up an investigation to collect evidence of crimes against humanity and possible genocide committed by Islamic State (IS) in Iraq.

It seems to me the issue is the apparent silencing of people who were speaking out against what seems to be cover - ups, concealment of evidence, and the protection of leaders by their peers.

(14) Our curiosity must often go unsatisfied, and we must be willing to change our minds when the evidence mounts up against our treasured system and unseats it.

For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor of the pancreationist, panexperientialist view that the actual world is made up exhaustively of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack of complete determinism seems to hold even at the most elementary level of nature; that bacteria seem to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears to be no place to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature to be most fundamentally a complex of events (not of enduring substances).

I grew up an atheist, but when I studied it, I found the evidence FOR God to be more compelling than against.

«We know who had to have done it, so just pick up the evidence that helps make a case against him and get rid of the rest.»

Would that the editors of The Chronicle of Higher Education had held Professor Conn's essay up to the rigorous standards of rationality and attention to evidence that he says he wishes to enforce against the religious colleges and universities he regards as benighted.

His experience is one that questions and pushes against what is affirmed by the environment he was raised in and studied in and confirmed in.I'm not denying that David's cartoons represent his experience in his «church» I'm turning up (best I can) the limitation of that experience and how his version (Zombie pastor preaching re-chewing of the mind as transformational) is 1) a sad and pathetic reduction of the cultural tradition and 2) is evidence of his own ongoing entrapment.

And even Blackmun might have come to see that his argument could not have stood up against the array of empirical evidence that formed that brief for the state of Texas.

To create reasonable doubt about Bannister's and Phillips's guilt, their lawyers are likely to dredge up all that circumstantial evidence that the police collected against Thompson.

What really galls me is that Wenger gets paid 8 million a year to manage a side and yet even the lowest paid bin man who is an arsenal fan can see that OG and Theo are NOT nor will they EVER be up to scratch un yet Wenger persisits against all the evidence because he so desperately wants to prove the world wrong about either or both of the afore mentioned.

PS: Don't get me wrong, I respect the fact that you post your optimistic yet contrarian views on here despite all the evidence that keep stacking up as an argument against optimism.

Chivas left glaring holes in the middle of the park (evidenced by the sheer number of plays our central defenders made in the attacking half) which certainly demonstrated they were set up to play against this system.

Diego Costa and his teammates up front make the most of their chances in front of goal and they defend extremely well as a unit, evidenced by their complete shutdown effort against Barcelona in the quarters.

There is a body of evidence stacking up against o'dowd.

As far back as our very first friendly of pre-season against Adelaide United, you could see that the senior members of the squad looked fired up and ready to answer their critics and, on the evidence of the first two matches of 15/16, that's certainly the case.

But if I have learned anything in my adult life, it is that sometimes you have to trick yourself into taking yourself seriously, even if all the evidence is piled up against you.

Pseudoscience never sees the need to change, no matter how much evidence piles up against a theory.

I think this site should all be a little more gracious to those considering other models of care considering the hurdles many of us come up against with our doctors that are not evidenced based care, no wonder we are looking and questioning things.

We spoke with several Lamaze instructors who shared their own personal experiences in hospitals and the obstacles they are up against in providing all the evidence - based information in their childbirth classes.

At the League Against Cruel Sports, we rely on facts and evidence to back up our campaigns, so our investigators took some secret footage to see for themselves if snare operators were following the Code of Practice.

Humanists UK, which leads the national campaign against religious discrimination and segregation in schools, has stated that such a decision would ignore the evidence that the cap has boosted integration in faith schools and instead show that the Government has bowed to the demands of the religious lobby instead of sticking up for the interests of children.

A case in point was when the Special Development Initiatives Ministry GH cents 800,000 website issue came up, he was all over trying to do damage control, insisting against all the available evidence that, it was rather GH cents 80,000.

On the question of how he would be dealing with allegations of corruption against members of his own government, President Akufo - Addo answered, «I have made it publicly known that anyone who has information about acts of corruption against any of my appointees should bring it forward and should be prepared to back it up with evidence.»

I have made it publicly known that anyone, who has information about acts of corruption against any of my appointees, should bring it forward, and should be prepared to back it up with evidence.

They'd swept up hundreds of people on the say - so of Afghan warlords and then realised there was no evidence against the vast majority of them, and little prospect of credible trials.

However, legal experts have warned against scrapping the reduction for a guilty plea, saying it is the only incentive for offenders to confess, thus ensuring victims do not have to give evidence in court and speeding up the whole justice process.

It was last used hundreds of years ago, but a select committee can draw up evidence against someone who has committed «high crimes or misdemeanours beyond the rule of law».

Welsh Liberal Democrats are leading the fight against Labour's illiberal ban, and unless the Minister brings forward indisputable evidence and makes a clear public health case in favour of a ban we will not let up our fight.»

When I found they tried to hide from me for ever, I have the braveness and candidness to post my testimony and evidence on the web, into the light for public scrutiny; By contrast, ZZZ / YYY / VVV continue to hide their real identities and materials they made up (e.g. Gabriele Scheler's recanted testimony) to mess up this case in the darkness, which leaves room for ZZZ / YYY / VVV to crook justice on their hands; I believe ZZZ / YYY / VVV had colluded with Scheler and Thrun to terrorize / extort authorities, as well, which should be another set of crimes from them against human society;

Since no substantial evidence could be gathered linking him to terrorist organisations the govt made up a case of foreign donations against him.

Phil Boothe, national coordinator of No2ID, which campaigns against the DNA database, said the findings were further proof of the dangers in the government's database programme, but warned not to give up on traditional forensic use of DNA, together with chains of evidence and presentation in court.

The government wrapped up nearly three weeks of testimony and evidence in its corruption case against former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, resting its case after calling two witnesses who testified in support of the money - laundering charges against the assemblyman.

Like most MPs, Diana Johnson has spent the last few days attempting to weigh up the evidence for and against bombing Syria.

The Asperger's sufferer's marathon struggle against extradition to the US, which unlike Britain does not have to provide evidence to back up its extradition requests, is being considered afresh by home secretary Theresa May.

The most damaging allegation to emerge against News International today was that its directors took part in an orchestrated cover - up of criminal wrong - doing and sought to destroy incriminating evidence.

Since taking over from the rather more liberal, Kenneth Clarke Grayling has attacked human rights as «political correctness», proposed dramatic restrictions to the right of individuals to challenge the state through judicial review, imposed significant restrictions on access to lawyers with no - win no - fee cases, moved the government back on to the course of building more (and bigger) prisons — despite the evidence against them — and is set on dramatically privatising up to 70 % of the probation service ceding state responsibility for offenders to commercial enterprises.

New Jersey prosecutors have dropped manslaughter charges against the son of a former top de Blasio administration aide over botched evidence that backs up his self - defense claim, lawyers said Thursday...