Sentences with phrase «upon evidence on»

In developing Lifelong Links, we have drawn upon evidence on the use of the family finding model in the US and in Edinburgh.

The claimant was slow to react to this prompt and only applied for permission to rely upon evidence on local standards six months later.

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Nostalgia for the 1980s and the 1990s has peaked in recent years, as evidenced elsewhere in the fashion world with a denim comeback not to mention listicle upon listicle on BuzzFeed, reboots of countless nineties sitcoms from Boy Meets World to Full House (or original takes on dated themes like Netflix's Stranger Things), or even the release of the Nintendo NES Classic Edition that immediately became The Gift of the 2016 holiday season.

«Because Congress did not have a «strong basis of evidence» upon which to conclude that DoD was a passive participant in pervasive, nationwide racial discrimination — at least not on the evidence produced by DoD and relied on by the district court in this case — the statute fails strict scrutiny,» the decision stated.

The benefit of a tax position is recognized in the financial statements in the period during which, based on all available evidence, management believes it is more likely than not that the position will be sustained upon examination, including the resolution of appeals or litigation processes, if any.

And Stewart vigorously defended the majority committee report — approved for release by the panel on Thursday upon a declassification review — that said the panel had found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow.

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.

Dante's innovative but risky technique was to trust us, his readers, with the responsibility for seizing upon the details in the narratives told by these sympathetic sinners in order to condemn them on the evidence that issues from their own mouths.

On the other hand, Professor Martin Werner has studied the evidence for this supposed influence of «Paulinism» upon the Gospel of Mark, and concludes that instead of «Paulinism» Mark presupposes only the common Christianity, the generally accepted Christian doctrine, of the Gentile churches at the middle of the first century.

Liberty of spirit is fundamental, since the free society is founded on respect for truth» specifically, upon openness to the light of evidence.

Reason, on the other hand, has often been opposed to feeling by insisting upon fidelity to the evidence of actual experience.

God would not be a God worthy of our worship — certainly not the God of Jesus — if he smiled indulgently upon our sins, bypassed them, and let us go on sinning with no evidence of divine disfavor.

I would not have you make any decision on insufficient evidence, but the fact remains that life in this regard presses necessities upon us which we can not avoid.

That's only useful when you need to rely upon talking people into seeing your point of view, and people with evidence on their side really shouldn't have to do that.

The authority of Scripture can not be appealed to, for this depends upon its witness to revelation, not on independent evidence of its inerrancy.

I know that the burden of proof lies upon me to show how my thesis fits with Scripture, but I am beginning to think that the real burden of proof lies upon those who want to maintain that God is violent despite all the evidence to the contrary in the life, ministry, and teachings of Jesus Christ, and especially in what He did for the entire world on the cross.

For lack of the necessary historical evidence it is no longer possible to write historical accounts of either the Mosaic migration upon which the faith of Israel was founded, or the rise of the Easter faith on which Christianity is founded.

Our methodology in crafting «The Gift of Salvation» was to study the Bible together and to formulate a statement on salvation derived from and based upon the evidence of Holy Scripture alone.

Earlier writers had recognized that Volkmar went too far in his attempted demonstration of Mark's dependence upon Paul — he found evidence of such dependence on almost every page of the Gospel — but his view was such a welcome relief from the one - sided Tübingen theory, according to which Mark was a «neutral» in the great apostolic controversy over Jewish Christianity, that the main thesis of Volkmar was accepted without careful scrutiny of his supporting arguments.

My wife and I were on an archaeological dig in the Southwest in which the indisputable evidence was that members of one village had killed and burned the inhabitants of a neighboring village — and had then built their own homes upon the burned bones and charred roofs of their neighbors.

I thought these professional opinions and the choices being pressed on the parents rested upon anecdotal evidence that was hard to verify and even harder to replicate.

Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...

Self - sprung prayers, on the other hand, she views as genuine evidence of a willed act to commune with God, relying upon individual creative and expressive abilities.

I know how life on Earth started And in each case provide no evidence whatsoever for their claims, but base them entirely upon Bronze and Iron Age Palestinian writings.

We insist on progress and impose it upon reluctant evidence.

Without a battalion of secretaries to gather all the things I could bring together as a body of evidence, I am cast upon the shores of typing arguments on the internet trying to point at enough solid facts that directly correlate to the definite impossibility of any god existing as gods are defined.

It is sad to say that we would be more likely to beat our opposition when playing away from home, Of course this is purely an opinion and an opinion based upon the evidence seen on a television 1000 miles from the Emirates.

Upon discovering that he had just enjoyed a smoothie containing carrots, something he had previously claimed wasn't a possibility, the opportunity to rationally re-evaluate his assumptions based on empirical evidence (i.e. stop deceiving himself) was eclipsed by his emotional reaction to having been (harmlessly) deceived.

Based on the statistician's findings, Lori Feldman - Winter, a co-author of the new guidelines and a professor of pediatrics at Cooper University Health Care in Camden, N.J., stated: «Upon further review of the available evidence, it is clear that we can not safely recommend bed sharing because of the hazard,» Feldman - Winter says.

«Although this decision puts on hold the justice that New Yorkers got upon Silver's conviction, we look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history.

'' [T] he burden in this proceeding is not on Teachout to establish residency, but rather upon the petitioners to establish by clear and convincing evidence that she does not meet the residency requirements,» said the court.

During a House of Commons debate on 7 July 2009, Davis accused the UK government of outsourcing torture, by allowing Rangzieb Ahmed to leave the country (even though the government had evidence against Ahmed, upon which Ahmed was later convicted for terrorism) to Pakistan, where it is said the Inter-Services Intelligence was given the go ahead by the British intelligence agencies to torture Ahmed.

Kim's statement goes on to say, «Although this decision puts on hold the justice that New Yorkers got upon Silver's conviction, we look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history.

«Although this decision puts on hold the justice that New Yorkers got upon Silver's conviction, we look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history,» he said.

The study found no evidence of a corresponding effect based upon gender — in fact, female Senate candidates received on average 1.2 percentage points more votes than polls had predicted.

«Although this decision puts on hold the justice that New Yorkers got upon Silver's conviction, we look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history,» Kim said.

«The NASUWT remains committed to a negotiated settlement on pensions, but it is important that any agreements are based upon sound evidence and that decisions are made in light of critical information being made available.

The multi-society letter called on the OMB to work with leaders of government agencies to back the use of the best scientific evidence in their decision - making and to see that federal agencies support scientists doing the work required to «produce the knowledge upon which the nation relies.»

In a statement responding to Golden Spike's announcement, a NASA spokesperson said: «This type of private sector effort is further evidence of the timeliness and wisdom of the Obama administration's overall space policy — to create an environment where commercial space companies can build upon NASA's past successes, allowing the agency to focus on the new challenges of sending humans to an asteroid and eventually Mars.»

«The language style used by climate change skeptics suggests that the arguments put forth by these groups may be less credible in that they are relatively less focused upon the propagation of evidence and more intent on refuting the opposing perspective,» said Pennycook.

The following concluding statement is not in the Fourth Assessment Report, but was agreed upon by the ISPM writers based on their review of the current evidence.

Here we will use it to seek evidence for an increased dependence of protein function on gene dosage upon aging.

«I don't think there is clear - cut evidence of biochemical dependence on diet soda, but my sense is that certainly people do become habituated to diet soda and dependent upon it,» he says.

Historical and even scientific truth can be merely the consensus agreed upon by those who presently have the power and influence to determine public opinion, or it can be based on evidence that has been tested in the laboratory, in debate, or in a court of law.

It was billed perhaps most prominently as evidence for the continuing McConaissance, but each and every actor, from high - paycheck megastars (Reese Witherspoon) to newcomer child actors (star - in - the - making Tye Sheridan) to, yes, the man of the hour himself (Matthew McConaughey has never appeared more vulnerable than as the title's hood - on - the - run), thrive under the tutelage of a director concerned with a casual reality, even when the circumstances touch upon the fantastical.

Following an academic talking head's advice that «Physical evidence helps to preserve a memory» — and a less convincing authority's insistence that a dead person's soul lingers in their newly - vacated home for about eleven months after their death — the filmmakers take it upon themselves to turn their grandmother's house inside - out, the better to immortalize her through the spectral traces they log on camera.

Caston and the team try to keep her away from Marzin and any evidence they may have on him, lest that evidence become inadmissible in court (That concern, though, doesn't stop Caston from letting Jessica contaminate the actual crime scene upon discovering the body, in a scene that seems to exist solely for a big Acting showcase for Roberts).

It has evaded standard rule - making procedures designed to collect evidence and encourage public participation; ignored the Supreme Court's interpretation of Title IX; pressured schools to adopt disciplinary proceedings that deny due process to the accused; insisted upon a definition of sexual harassment so broad that it threatens free speech on campus; and created within colleges units dedicated to reeducating students on all matters sexual and on the dictates of «social justice.»

The papers that called for a search as a result of the Brown complaint, a search that might have uncovered astonishing evidence of intended mayhem in Eric's room had it been executed, were never acted upon, and the file on the case kept getting lost, owing one assumes to the embarrassment it would cause the Jeffco officials.