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.

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.

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??

But the farther out he moves, the thinner will be his hold on conclusive evidence, and the larger the speculative component in his inferences.

Early Buddhism avoided speculative thought on metaphysics, phenomenology, ethics, and epistemology, but was based instead on empirical evidence gained by the sense organs ( ayatana ).

However, the evidence is scant ( a few names and three non-Turkic words ), thus scholars currently conclude that the Hunnic language cannot presently be classified, and attempts to classify it as Turkic and Mongolic are speculative.

Judith Anderson said his work was based on statistically flawed evidence, John Archer and others said that Rushton failed to understand and misapplied the theory of kin selection, Judith Economos said he was speculative and failed to define the concept of altruistic behavior in a way that it can become manifest and failed to show any plausible mechanism by which members of a species can detect the " altruism gene " in other members of the species, and Steven Gangestad criticized the theory for not being compelling in terms of its attractiveness as an explanatory model, C. R.

The evidence whether Wren was a speculative freemason is the subject of the Prestonian Lecture of 2011, which concludes on the evidence of two obituaries and Aubrey's memoirs, with supporting materials, that he did indeed attend the closed meeting in 1691, probably of the Lodge of Antiquity, but that there is nothing to suggest that he was ever a Grand Officer as claimed by Anderson.

Authors such as Christopher Ehret have built upon the little evidence available to develop scenarios of intensive usage of plants having built up first in North Africa, as a precursor to the development of true farming in the Fertile Crescent, but such suggestions are considered highly speculative until more North African archaeological evidence can be gathered.

This theory, however, remains largely speculative, and there is little hard evidence to confirm this interpretation.

At Kenilworth the speculative and commercial reconstruction of the castle gardens in an Elizabethan style led to a vigorous academic debate over the interpretation of archaeological and historical evidence.

* First, her theory, although intriguing, remains speculative ; she reinterprets existing historical documents, rather than citing new evidence.

The concept of ki underlying Reiki is speculative and there is no scientific evidence that it exists ; a 2008 systematic review of randomised clinical trials concluded that " the evidence is insufficient to suggest that reiki is an effective treatment for any condition.

The theory was highly speculative as of first publishing in 2002, as it relies on no experimental evidence so far.

In addition, the influence of the Maragha school on Copernicus remains speculative, since there is no documentary evidence to prove it.

This explanation is however highly speculative as it is not supported by any evidence or historical sources.

This suspect was recently identified as DC Brian Cushway by the writer Stewart Home in a review of Seabrook's book ( www. stewarthomesociety. org / seabrook. htm ) but there is no evidence supporting the allegation, which is merely speculative.

The physical evidence relies on speculative reasoning to support the theory, and all of it can be interpreted in other ways.

Due to the lack of historical evidence regarding the ninjatō, techniques for usage in a martial context are largely speculative.

However, the court reversed the damage award, holding that the $ 22 billion award of damages for the chamber full of gold was too speculative, as there was no evidence of quantity or quality, and ordered a new hearing on the value of the golden Buddha and 17 bars of gold only.

There is some evidence to suggest that inducing immunosuppression with rATG at organ transplantation may create conditions in the patient's immune system favorable to the development of immunological tolerance, but the exact basis for such a development remains largely speculative.

To that end he deplores the evidence adduced in support of this notion as " highly speculative and statistically weak " at best.

Numbers are speculative but based on hard evidence in declassified files of the number of Polaris ET. 317 warheads and spares, a figure of between 48 and 60 is likely.

Such scenarios however remain speculative until such time as more compelling evidence for the avian affinity of any of the Protoavis material is brought forth.