Sentences with phrase «with scant evidence»

The budget says this program «is poorly targeted and spread thinly across thousands of districts with scant evidence of impact.»

«People have a very violent reaction to this,» says Olsen, who readily admits that it's hard to choose between an asteroid and volcanoes with the scant evidence at hand.

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Members increasingly criticized three aspects of what seemed to them arrogant behavior of pastor and church: neither Sid nor the congregation adequately participated in Methodist conference functions; they gave scant evidence of traditional Christian piety; they did not, except in some personal ways, concern themselves with the poor.

Some reports are likely genuine (hate is always with us), but there's scant evidence of any surge.

A rehabilitated Irwin has now pivoted into theoretical physics, a field in which fantastical claims with scant supporting evidence can still boast a degree of respectability.

Bruce Ribner, the clinician who led the Emory University Hospital team that treated patients Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, said in a recent interview with Scientific American that although studies have shown Ebola patients shed genetic material from the pathogen into their sexual fluids there is scant evidence they are often shedding viable virus that could infect others.

For developed nations, there is scant evidence that TIMSS rankings correlate with measures of prosperity or future success.

Stymied at every turn by an alarming lack of non-anecdotal concrete evidence of her existence (much of her early understanding of the character comes from a few scant interviews with former coworkers and one still photo), she begins to take on her own conception of the character, a deep dive into the method acting process.

Instead, school districts, eager to be perceived as plugged in and afraid of being penalized for low test scores, have bought into expensive drill - and - kill software — the kind that costs a fortune and displays a silly animation of fireworks or cheering crowds for every five correct answers — with only minimal improvements on test scores and scant evidence of long - term progress among students.

While there is certainly evidence that teacher knowledge matters, there is scant evidence that the knowledge reflected in high standardized test scores is closely correlated with becoming a good teacher.

He said the government's schools reforms were «a free market experiment brought in at break - neck speed with scant supporting evidence».

White Star Lines Captain Bruce Ismay, long despised for taking a seat in a lifeboat rather than going down with the ship (a scenario eerily relived in the recent sinking of the Costa Concordia), is casually labeled a «masochist» on rather scant evidence.

Painting — in scant evidence in previous conceptually driven biennales — is well represented; with Chris Ofili's inclusion providing a welcome flash of populism amid the more esoteric choices.

Even with the problems in the Gulf, the science that points to rising risks from accumulating greenhouse gases, and the cheering at a green - jobs fair, there's scant evidence that the country is even remotely engaged in the kind of energy quest that would be required to move off the comfortable fossil - fuel «rung» of what Loren Eiseley called the heat ladder.

So far man - made global warming of a catastrophic degree, appears to me to be a weak conjecture with scant reliable empirical evidence to support it.

My concern is that the Supreme Court, by setting an arbitrary limit with scant comparable evidence on trial delay, has stirred up a hornet's nest in political circles, where justice spending doesn't have the same political cachet as hospital spending.

The Supreme Court allowed the grievance, with the majority deciding that the scant evidence of a substance abuse problem put forward by the employer was not sufficient to outweigh the employees» privacy rights.

Although scant, there is some evidence that depression scores between online and paper administration of the PHQ - 9 are not significantly different.37 An online version of GAD - 7 has been reported as reliable, 38 but we found no evidence of comparisons with paper administration.