There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.

Steele apparently professed his sentiments in this book too openly and honestly for his own good, since the government was soon to use it as evidence against him in his trial before the House.

However, the confession, which was the only evidence against him, was retracted before the trial.

Walker said he was considering filing a motion for a new trial which would contend that the verdict was against the weight of the evidence and that there were several errors in trial procedure.

B attempts to falsify A's conditional statement (" if Republican then against gun control ") by providing evidence he believes would contradict its implication.

On November 21, 1867, the House Judiciary Committee produced a bill of impeachment: it had a broad collection of complaints against him, but as stated, these were not thought to be easily provable under the Constitution, which required evidence " as treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

Seven Republican senators – William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle and notably Senators Grimes and Ross played a decisive role ; purportedly disturbed by how the proceedings had been manipulated to give a one-sided presentation of the evidence, they voted against conviction, in defiance of their party and public opinion.

Among some creationists the cave tetra is seen as evidence against evolution.

Yale was a suspect but legal proceedings against him were dropped due to a lack of evidence.

Kiernan argues against an 8th-century provenance because this would still require that the poem be transmitted by Anglo-Saxons through the Viking Age, holds that the paleographic and codicological evidence encourages the belief that Beowulf is an 11th-century composite poem, and states that Scribe A and Scribe B are the authors and that Scribe B is the more poignant of the two.

( 2006 ): Particle listings – Θ < sup >+</ sup > and in 2008, considered evidence to be overwhelmingly against the existence of the reported pentaquarks.

Though witnesses against them were numerous, the evidence cited was nearly all hearsay or outright fabrications.

This evidence suggests that some shareholders express their displeasure with a company by voting against its directors.

Illegal and punishable crime is the violation of any rule of administrative, fiscal or criminal liability on the part of agents of the state or practice of any wrongdoing and notoriously harmful to self or against third parties, provided for in criminal law, since they practiced with guilt ( the first act that causes injury criminal actions or omissions to produce adequate evidence also illegal ).

However, there is preliminary evidence for possible effects against urinary tract infections in women.

" Regarding his view on Spectral evidence, Upham concludes that " Cotton Mather never in any public writing ' denounced the admission ' of it, never advised its absolute exclusion ; but on the contrary recognized it as a ground of ' presumption ' ... once admitted nothing could stand against it.

Captain Kidd did bury a small cache of treasure on Gardiners Island in a spot known as Cherry Tree Field ; however, it was removed by Governor Bellomont and sent to England to be used as evidence against him.

During the war against the Sandinista government, the contras carried out many violations of human rights, and evidence suggests that these were systematically committed as an element of warfare strategy.

The charges against three of the original defendants, Ruth Schwartz ( owner of Mordam Records ), Steve Boudreau ( a distributor involved in supplying Frankenchrist to the Los Angeles Wherehouse store ), and Salvatore Alberti ( owner of the factory where the record was pressed ), were dismissed for lack of evidence.

" A 2008 study found that recreational drug use ( including marijuana, cocaine, poppers and amphetamines ) had no effect on CD4 or CD8 T-cell counts, providing further evidence against a role of recreational drugs as a cause of AIDS.

The EPA then held seven months of hearings in 1971 – 1972, with scientists giving evidence both for and against the use of DDT.

The German university bureaucratic practice of using the post-nominal form, " Ph. D ." ( or equivalent ), to distinguish non-German doctorates can be challenged legally as evidence of arbitrary discrimination and prejudice against non-German nationals ( academics ).

In practice, the accumulation of evidence for or against any particular theory involves planned research designs for the collection of empirical data, and academic rigor plays a large part of judging the merits of research design.

Elizabeth's supporters in the government, including Lord Paget, convinced Mary to spare her sister in the absence of hard evidence against her.

The word faith generally refers to a belief that is held with lack of, in spite of or against reason and evidence.

On May 27, 1983, a judge rejected the claims in the Liuzzo family lawsuit, saying there was " no evidence the FBI was in any type of joint venture with Rowe or conspiracy against Mrs. Liuzzo.

About a hundred years after Shakespeare died, Nicholas Rowe reported that he had heard an anecdote that Shakespeare himself had played the Ghost, causing a rumour that continues to this day, but which has little evidence to support it.

Williamson gave further evidence that when Rowe had left on the Thursday evening he had been wearing a particular type of distinctive footwear, and imprints made by this type of boot were found in a flowerbed at the Napier home and in blood in the Napier's hall.

The appeal was rejected, with the court stating: " Taking all the evidence relating to the timing and events on the Thursday night and the succeeding days into account we conclude that, on the whole of the material we have reviewed, there is no basis for saying there is even a lurking doubt about the safety of the convictions of Rowe and Davis, the same applies to Johnson.

Whilst there is evidence specifically linking Messrs Rowe and Davis to the robberies, if the prosecution against one of the three, Mr Johnson, might no longer be sustainable, in the Commission's view the Court of Appeal ought at the same time have the opportunity to consider whether the case can still be sustained against Messrs Rowe and Davis.

The only evidence of occupation came from the chimney, which was belching out thick smoke.

Neither the vibrant enthusiasm which bespeaks a people's intuitive sense of the fitness of things at climactic moments nor the vital argumentation betraying its sense that something significant has transpired was in evidence.

In assigning to God the responsibility which he learned could not rest with his doctors, Eisenhower gave evidence of that weakening of the moral intuition which was to characterize his administration in the years to follow.

And in the context of drifting personal utterances we have examined, there was occasional evidence of the origin of all such evasions.

The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.

What they meant was that there was no evidence to show that the south and east coasts of Britain received Germanic settlers conspicuously earlier than some other parts of England.

That is, there was no trace of Anglo-Saxons in Britain as early as the late third century, to which time the archaeological evidence for the erection of the Saxon Shore forts was beginning to point.

There was no evidence, either of a positive or negative type, of the actions of a Divine Being in this world ; ;

Milton himself, uncommunicative as he is about his lesser and nonliterary activities, at least gives us some evidence that he was a great walker, under any and all conditions.

But that scarcely means that he was the aloof, forbidding type of student who shared few if any activities with his fellows, the banter of the surviving prolusions providing enough evidence to deny this.

Until the last year or so the profession of friendship with the United States had been an article of faith with Trujillo, and altogether too often this profession was accepted here as evidence of his good character.

There was considerable evidence of a tacit rapprochement with Castro in Cuba, previously a bete noire to Trujillo -- thus illustrating the way in which totalitarianism of the right and left coalesces.

Another evidence of the spreading rule of reason was provided from Mexico City with the daily hijacking of an American plane by a demented Algerian with a gun.

While there are now allegations of the withholding of `` favorable evidence developed at the hearing '' and a denial of a `` full and fair hearing '', no such claim was made by petitioner at any stage of the administrative process.

set production ( excluding those destined for the export market ) also ran ahead in the early months, but was curtailed after the usual vacation shutdowns in the face of growing evidence that some of the early production plans had been overly optimistic.

the air was thick with smoke, empty bottles were in evidence, and several of the guests were somewhat the worse for liquor.

The cake was received in a stunned silence that was evidence in itself of the dearth of taste thrills Mama had been providing.

There was no evidence of fibrosis.

The rating scale of compulsivity was constructed by first perusing the interview records, categorizing all evidence related to compulsivity, then arranging a distribution of such information apart from the case records.

Children scoring high in compulsivity were those who gave evidence of tension or emotionality in situations where there was lack of organization or conformity to standards and expectations, or who made exaggerated efforts to achieve these goals.

( 2 ) What evidence is there that he was psychically blind??