Sentences with phrase «weaker case on»

Without any witnesses, ICBC knew they suddenly had a much weaker case on their hands and faced the very real prospect of a complete defeat.

2) Lawyers are not liable for costs related to advancing a weak case on their clients» instructions.

Not exact matches

In Chappelle's recent stand - up special «The Bird Revelation,» which premiered on Netflix New Year's Eve, the comedian did an extended bit on the women who accused Louis C.K. of unwanted masturbation, calling them «weak» for letting C.K.'s behavior affect them — or in one woman's case, stopping her from pursuing a career in comedy.

Removing those companies (just 3 in this case) that each had at least a 5 % impact on the r - squared value, along with the companies that had negative book values, reveals a weak, 27 %, correlation.

This is based on a simple economic model that states not all production (financial services in this case) will relocate to the large economy (the EU) as the small economy (UK) is able make up for its lack of competitiveness by having a weaker currency.

This generally supports the case that Living Goods offers high quality products, but because our experience on the site visit may have been non-representative and there are many other potential factors that may affect the effectiveness of drug treatments aside from following storage procedures for drugs properly, we consider it to be only weak evidence in support of the quality of Living Goods» drug treatments.

First, if growth did not recover and surprise on the upside (in which case high asset prices would be justified), eventually slow growth would dominate the levitational effects of liquidity and force asset prices lower, in line with weaker economic fundamentals.

Before focusing on the case for emerging markets, it is worth disposing of two myths: EM stocks are cheap and they are a play on a weak U.S. dollar.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

I think the poster's advice on interpretation makes the case of belief much stronger, honestly, not weaker.

This is gravely immoral and in open contradiction to the principle, recognised also in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, that the best interests of the child, as the weaker and more vulnerable party, are to be the paramount consideration inevery case.»

That is to say, if this is the case, we must fall back on Christian's weaker thesis that Whitehead is not proving that any real causal nexus exists and that we have direct awareness of it.

A weak case can be made for permitting abortions on the grounds that responsible people disagree on the matter.

Second, those who advocate freedom of choice have a weak case in the absence of a position on the humanity of the fetus.

In this explanation of why he is not a Christian, Keith Parsons discusses the role that Christianity has played in perpetuating suffering throughout human history, the bizarre doctrine of inflicting eternal punishment on persons for having the wrong beliefs, the composition, inconsistencies, and absurdities of the New Testament Gospels, William Lane Craig's flawed case for the resurrection of Jesus, the role of legendary development and hallucinations in early Christianity, and C.S. Lewis» weak justifications for the Christian prohibition on premarital se - x.

The Musketeers might be considered the weakest No. 1 seed, but you can also make the case they have the easiest path of any team on the top line to reach the Final Four.

Seeding could diminish Davis» case, but that argument becomes weaker when you realize the Pelicans are just 1.5 games back of the Spurs for the three seed and are knocking on the door for home court advantage.

You might read in other reviews on drinks being «weak» this is the case in certain bars but not others.

The broader discussion is over whether the Court will be willing to strike such a major law on a weak legal case.

«My views against expanding Heathrow, particularly on the impact of noise and air pollution on local residents and the weak economic case, are long - held and well - known.

This is considered to be particularly the case on occasion of «asymmetric shocks» which may hit weaker «peripheral economies» in a monetary union, but not stronger «core ones».

What's worse, the case against the tax harmonsation is incredibly weak and largely based on misconceptions about who pays and how Capital Gains works in practice.

«I believe people will see the case for us being stronger together and weaker apart, for a UK founded on the devolution of power, but also on the partnership that brings us stability, cooperation and mutual support,» Mr Brown said.

However, the state Senate has blocked any action on that proposal or a weaker resolution by Senate GOP leader Bob Huff to formally suspend the members with pay until their criminal cases are resolved.

Many see Bharara as increasingly overzealous and much will depend on how strong or weak Skelos» members believe the case is against him, several said.

We found that the genetic background had a major influence on whether or not weaker mutations would confer drug resistance, and in these cases many different cells adapted in a wave.

In the paper «Banning Smoking In Parks and on Beaches: Science, Policy, and the Politics of Denormalization,» published in the July issue of the journal Health Affairs, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the evidence for these claims and found them to be far from definitive and, in some cases, weak.

On the other hand, this «first case» caused some criticism for taking advantage of weak regulatory system (or its absence) and for ethical issues.

There is a peak at 32 days with an even higher false alarm probability value, the fit does converge to a sensible eccentricity but it is going to be difficult to make a case for its existence based on such a weak signal.

Typically people train them on «weak point» days or in some cases, «arm» days.

They kept it with them in case they became too weak to carry on because they knew the therapeutic effects could keep them alive longer.

But in this case Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 doubles down on what should normally be its weakest point.

On the other hand, it's often said that a weak dress rehearsal ensures a good opening night, in which case MacFarlane may well emerge victorious in his own right.

This is especially the case when the port arrives on more advanced hardware, as anything ported from weaker hardware always gets an extra bit of scrutiny.

The blunt fact of the matter is that this is powerful rhetoric atop an extremely weak legal case — like posting a «beware of dog» sign on your home when you own a beagle puppy.

However, the DOJ's procedural case is weak — the federal desegregation orders are silent on transfers to private schools — and its substantive case is practically nonexistent.

As John Buell (2004) puts it: `... for a practice as solidly entrenched as homework, the scholarly case on its behalf is surprisingly weak and even contradictory.»

In a recent New York Times op - ed, I argued that the case for Betsy DeVos's Secretary of Education appointment rests on a very weak track record — in particular, the evidence does not support her free market approach to school reform that relies, first and foremost, on school vouchers for private schools, as well as unregulated forms of charter schooling.

Former Department of Justice Attorney Clint Bolick of Goldwater believes that the DOJ's case is also weak on substantive grounds:

In other words, a strong correlation noted in just one group of teachers (i.e., teachers scoring the lowest on their value - added and observational indicators in this case) can be relatively stronger than the «weak» correlation observed on average or overall.

Apart from being an e-book reader first and foremost, it also stocks a Web browser and a news feed reader just in case you want to do some casual surfing on the go — be warned, however, that normally e-book readers don't make good Web browsers in general due to their relatively weak hardware.

My one complaint is that the magnets on the cases are weaker than I'd like, making it pretty easy for the case to come off accidentally if you're not being careful.

Especially since they are incredibly weak on content and in some cases appear to be created for the sole purpose of earning money through the Google Adsense advertising program.

Finally, the LANPASS Visa Signature Card and SKYPASS Visa Signature Card, both from US Bank, offer minimal signup bonuses and weak earning rates, so even in the case of SKYPASS, where points can be valuable on certain routes, their co-branded credit card is unlikely to be the most efficient way to earn them.

- Travis has a weak attack, strong attack and jump attack - Travis also has different skills and a running slash - you can do a 2 - player special attack - story focuses on the relationship between Travis and Badman - some of the alternate / secret routes in the game will make your path ahead more challenging - camera style will change depending on where you are in a level - includes a cameo from The Silver Case - Suda used games like Smash TV as an inspiration for Travis Strikes Again - the staff working on this game is about 10 people in total - Suda still has the idea of a game starring Shinobu, but isn't sure if that would be for No More Heroes 3 or another spin - off - Suda says he'd like to put Juliet from Lollipop Chainsaw into the game, but he'd need permission from Kadokawa WB

I'm only on the second episode, which is by far the weakest case in the history of the series.

In 1965, Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a highly controversial report, titled The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, that blamed «the deterioration of the fabric of Negro society» on a weak family structure.

Of course Mass may feel that a linear regression of average Texas summer temperatures since 1895 provides conclusive evidence for his case that AGW is currently far too weak to play a significant role in the Texas 2011 heatwave (an argument he recycles in his Aug 9 blog post), but it is strange Mass picks on Rupp et al 2012 without mentioning Massey et al 2012 in the same collection of papers that similarly finds AGW impacts in excess of Mass's method (3 times in excess by my calculation).

My take on this is that the case that «big non-linear responses» can happen is strong, but that the case that they will happen in the near or medium term is weak.