Sentences with phrase «with weak evidence»

It may be possible to keep less serious sex crime cases, with weak evidence, off the record or prevent serious immigration consequences.

In the current case, prosecutors joined unrelated allegations into a single indictment to heighten the appearance of wrongdoing, «with weak evidence of one scheme propping up weak evidence of another,» Williams argued.

Not exact matches

According to U.S. best practices, nonprofit boards should be comprised of at least five people who have little overlap with an organization's staff or other related parties.70 However, there is only weak evidence that following these best practices is correlated with success, and if they are correlated, that may be because more competent organizations are more likely to both follow best practices and to succeed — rather than because following best practices leads to success.

At the end of the day, the prosecution's case was weak to begin with and I believe that the verdict of «not guilty» was the correct one due to a lack of evidence.

The holy spirit is real to me he speaks to me he leads me he gives me wisdom he comforts me and he empowers me to do the work i am called to do.the evidence that you are walking by and with the holy spirit is that you are walking no longer walking according to the flesh but by the spirit of God.One of the things i used to struggle with was sin but no more it is the holy spirit that empowers me to live a holy life and when tempted i admit that my flesh is weak but that in Christ i am an overcomer and in the holy spirits power he strengthens me to be like Christ.To God be the glory great things he has done.brentnz

Although early studies showed that saturated fat diets with very low levels of PUFAs increase serum cholesterol, whereas other studies showed high serum cholesterol increased the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD), the evidence of dietary saturated fats increasing CAD or causing premature death was weak.

Section B contains «studies exhibiting problems with the design, analysis or reporting» and so on, with the evidence becoming weaker as the letters progress.

The UK Childhood Cancer Study investigators23 published in 2001 a study that provided 1636 leukemia cases and indicated a weak evidence of borderline statistical significance that ever (compared with never) having been breastfed was associated with a small reduction in leukemia risk (OR, 0.89; 95 % CI, 0.84 - 1.00).

The evidence is that forming a lasting relationship with a weaker school gives the strong school an ideal platform to share its «educational DNA» for success.

Guideline authors noted, however, that the evidence for the recommendations is weak, since many of the studies had relatively small numbers of patients with similar types of epilepsy and were conducted at only one institution, so the results may not be generalizable to everyone with epilepsy.

Though the evidence was weaker, the researchers also found that massage therapy, spinal manipulation, and osteopathic manipulation may provide some help for back pain, and relaxation approaches and tai chi might help people with fibromyalgia.

• Statins have been associated with a drop in CoQ10 levels, but the evidence for supplements is still weak, and...

Together with prior evidence showing that some subduction zone faults are «weak,» this implies that all of the faults are «weak,» and that subduction zones are «low - stress» environments.

She said new studies since that time suggest that 70 ppb is more appropriate from a scientific standpoint, with the evidence for harm below those levels far weaker.

The ATLAS collaboration also releases first evidence for an important but rare weak - interaction process in which a single top quark is produced together with a Z boson.

An analysis of the geographical distribution of allele frequencies showed weak evidence of variation in distribution of alleles, with clusters representing a higher than expected number of samples with the major allele being identified for 5 SNPs.

See, muscles can become smaller and weaker with age (a process known as sarcopenia), and evidence suggests that a key part of the decline occurs in this mitochondria, a component of muscle cells that is the ultimate powerhouse — the primary engine of energy production.

Given the existence of (weak) evidence that postmenopausal therapy with oral estrogen may increases breast cancer risk, it is recommended that women at risk of, or who already have been diagnosed with breast cancer, should avoid soy products just to be on the safe side.

While believed for years to be a weak environmental estrogen, there is mounting evidence connecting BPA with a variety of human health issues.

After adjustment for potential confounders, there was weak evidence for positive associations between maternal free sugar intake in pregnancy and childhood doctor - diagnosed asthma and childhood wheeze (OR comparing highest versus lowest quintile 1.31, 95 % CI 0.98 — 1.75; per quintile p - trend = 0.09 and 1.42, 95 % CI 1.05 — 1.92; per quintile p - trend = 0.08, respectively), and stronger evidence for a positive association with atopy at age 7 years (OR 1.38, 95 % CI 1.06 — 1.78; per quintile p - trend = 0.006)(table 2).

The modest or weak evidence of these dietary exposures is mostly consistent with the findings of RCTs, although RCTs have yet to be conducted for several factors.

Interestingly, despite consistent (if rather weak) evidence that the amount of time participants spent engaged in activities related to online dating increased with age, age and total time online were not related.

This employment gap is consistent with other data [xx] showing that the Great Recession hit black college graduates much harder than white college graduates, as well as with evidence [xxi] that employers are more likely to discriminate against minorities in weak labor markets.

Teaching children to read is central to a teacher's calling, but a large body of evidence shows that teachers get weak training in individual learning differences and in teaching reading to students with diverse backgrounds and abilities.

The essential question for those interested in the advance of evidence - based education is whether demand is weak because there is something wrong with the research that is being provided or because there is something about the way the field of education is organized that suppresses the market for evidence - based approaches.

This position is most prominently espoused by Jay Greene, the head of the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, who has argued the evidence for a correlation between test scores and life prospects is weak, especially with regards to high - stakes testing.

Finally, whatever intervention this Board takes, it must do so with actual evidence of the issues, concerns, and needs of Black, Latinx, Asian, and Native American educators and students rather than with the clever marketing and weak evidence provided by the charter school industry.

Faced with evidence that performance pay does not directly improve instruction, promoters of the system have turned to a different claim — that performance pay will help school systems attract and retain strong teachers, while discouraging weaker ones.

Apart from ill fitting components, creaks, rattles and weak engine, the infotainment system malfunctioned from day one and took 5 appointments over 7 months, spending 9 days at the dealership before being replaced and only the after I supplied Honda with video evidence of the fault.

There is limited and weak evidence to suggest that it may have a role to play in reducing anxiety in dogs over the medium to longer term but the available evidence is of low quality and / or high risk of bias, with confounding variables providing alternative explanations for the findings.

We have been treated to many opportunistic hindsight «validations» of climate modeling (Pakistan, Russia, etc.) using the «consistent with» meme that most scientists would see as very weak evidence.

So if Texas 2011 was attributable to AGW (as Mass asserts it isn't but with little supporting evidence), this intensity of event will have been relatively weak compared with what we should expect in the coming century.

It must be admitted (based upon the evidence) that most scientists are atheist and / or agnostic (with «weak atheism» being an extension of agnosticism):

In some specific contexts, they may be even higher, but evidence there is very weak; i.e. the studies that do purport to show high numbers are typically conflate causality with correlation (see point two below).

The evidence for the overrating includes substantial differences in the environmental conditions in which those strong tornadoes were observed, as well as aspects of their damage path with tornadoes in the retrospective era sharing characteristics with weaker tornadoes from later years.

Judith Curry conclusions «[C1] It looks to me that the evidence for accelerating anthropogenic sea level rise is pretty weak -LSB-...][C2] The practical issues associated with sea level rise are fundamentally local, and local sea level rise can be substantially different from GMSL rise.

Of course I can not exclude any connection with full certainty, I can only judge the power of the evidence, and consider it too weak.

For a method for that, may I encourage you to look at Roy Spencer's recent model on thermal diffusion in the ocean: More Evidence that Global Warming is a False Alarm: A Model Simulation of the last 40 Years of Deep Ocean Warming June 25th, 2011 See especially his Figure Forcing Feedback Diffusion Model Explains Weak Warming in 0 - 700 m layer as Consistent with Low Climate Sensitivity His model appears to be more accurate than the IPCC's.

The aim of generating discussion is a weak excuse for making false statements that are presented as your own and genuine opinions, failing to provide evidence for those stts, and refusing to engage when someone provides evidence that those stts are false, with a request for engagement.

Settledscience is rather generous with throwing around the word lie when the evidence he gives is very weak.

There is weak evidence for a quasi-periodic variation in the sunspot cycle amplitudes with a period of about 90 years («Gleisberg cycle»).

When the conclusions you reach vary so drastically with the prior, what it should be telling you is that most of your knowledge about the date is not coming from the radiocarbon data, which is pretty weak and uninformative evidence, it's coming from your prior expectations.

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.

I could say that the sun is weaker than it has been for a while in this cycle, yet global cloud cover is lower, which is evidence that the Svensmark theory is wrong, while this evidence consistent with AGW and positive cloud feedback.

Having debated this issue with British Antarctic Survey scientists and found astonishingly that they had no evidence for the hypothesis that CO2 amplifies the orbital - induced warming once it has begun — they were left lamely saying that the data «is entirely consistent with» that hypothesis — I have to agree with Willis's characterisation of the very weak video above: it amplified rather than damped my doubts about that hypothesis.

The intelligence agencies had all kinds of red flags about 9/11, but Bush never got any urgency from his top people, similarly they trumped up WMD with weak to no evidence because the higher ups knew that was what Cheney wanted to hear.

tucci started out with an «inference» that had no basis on evidence, and went on to build his «argument» from that obviously weak foundation.

Weak evidence, as noted, but you'd expect the correlation with log CO2 to be better than linear, if not a lot better, if the relationship were actually logarithmic.

Palmer's work with the Western Fuels Association goes all the way back to 1991, when he served as Vice President to the Informational Council for the Environment (ICE), a small coalition of US coal companies that devised a detailed PR campaign to show that «evidence that the earth is warming is weak» and that proof that carbon dioxide was the primary cause was «non existent.»

If there is no resonance with a previous years somewhat similar to 2004 - 05, there is none in the media now, nobody is saying its like 1949 all over again, therefore this adds to the formidable pile of evidence in favor of AGW, and also shows the weaker side of those negating AGW's influence.