Sentences with phrase «who lend credibility»

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«It's not so much about the funds, the Europeans have enough money to lend to Greece,» an official close to the bailout talks, who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of negotiations, told CNBC earlier this week, adding that the issue is more of credibility.

Unless you have extremely high profile members on your board, I don't care who your advisors are; they're there to lend credibility but they aren't actually writing the code or doing the hard work.

I automatically discount anything written by someone who thinks «Dr.» in his name lends him credibility....

However, seeing as there are clearly people in this discussion thread who are disinclined to lend equal weight and credibility to the words of a woman when there's a perfectly good white man about I will endeavor to break down one particularly telling statement (to me, at least) in McLaren's non-apology apology so that, perhaps, something might pierce the fog McLaren is attempting to deploy as a defensive shroud.

Unfortunately, her reply is little more than a show of concern for herself and her friends, and the fact that we are once again faced with an accused person in a ministry position who spews indigation without the slightest attempt to engage by offering counterpoints or supported statements lends still more credibility to Julie's account.

Equally dangerous to science, however, if not more so, are those naturalistic scientists who play essentially the same game as the creationists, i.e., seek to lend credibility to their particular worldview by attempting to clothe it in scientific garb.

Madison Wolfe is great as the young girl at the center of the haunting, but the film wouldn't work without Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, who play the real - life ghost hunters with such earnestness that it lends credibility to the material.

Kevin Kline, as Adam's father who's dating his son's ex-girlfriend doesn't lend any credibility to this movie, either.

I've essentially been told to engage in some light - hearted banter with the nominees, give one of them the award, and by my presence — and my silence — lend cover and credibility to winners who got the award through bullying and extortion.

Unlike those who came before him, and many of his contemporaries who wrote in French or Latin, Chaucer wrote in the English vernacular thus lending credibility and legitimacy to the language.

Part peer - review site, part social media tool, the key to the success of the concept may be that Penguin has enlisted the help of some well - known and respected literary agents who are lending not only their expertise to the site, but their credibility as high - profile leaders in the publishing industry as well.

Aside from showcasing a talent who helped lend color photography credibility as an artistic medium in the»70s and»80s, the exhibition is also significant for Sotheby's bringing these works directly to buyers in the Bay area, a first for the company.

As attention spans continue to thin and as interesting content spins through attention dashboards at blinding speeds, brands must proactively connect relevant information to social beacons who can lend credibility and spark conversations and dialogue around the objects we introduce aligned by theme and context.

And shame on the environmental groups who would lend credibility to this kind of a front.

The fact that the scientists who work on the reports do so on a volunteer basis «lends credibility and dignity to the effort,» said Michael Mann, an IPCC author and climatologist who directs the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University.

All we hear is how much investors stand to lose particularly the industry super funds and foreign wind power companies who operate under nice friendly sounding local names as if to lend the wind farm some sort of credibility.

But here's the thing: Michael Mann, who's so concerned about not wanting to «share the stage» and thereby lend his credibility to «anti-science» «deniers», has just happily shared the stage with a guy who thinks temperature can be expressed as a percentage.

By calling the science «still incomplete,» Bush also lent new credibility to the tiny handful of industry - sponsored «greenhouse skeptics» who have been thoroughly discredited by the mainstream community of climate researchers — including the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the National Academy of Sciences and other blue - ribbon scientific groups that deem global warming to be real, immediate and ominous.

If that meeting went well, it is quite possible that Ex-Im could be supporting projects that lend credibility to a leader who stifles the press, encourages military aggression and profits from his power.

Michaels was to be one of three members of a science advisory panel to lend credibility to the campaign and would make broadcast media appearances, do interviews and provide his signature to a letter sent to members of the public who had responded to the campaign.

Philosophically, I recommend you do not lend credibility to the premises of insincere commenters, you know who I am referring to.