For example, in the political controversy over anthropogenic climate change that is prevalent in the United States-it has been thought that those who are opposed to the scientific consensus did so because of a lack of evidence.

Ethan's personality is diametrically opposed to the other characters, in part because of his relative lack of technical knowledge.

He opposed Howard's policy on asylum-seekers, campaigned in support of an Australian Republic and attacked what he perceived as a lack of integrity in Australian politics, together with former Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam, finding much common ground with his predecessor.

" He described Rhea County as priding itself on a kind of tolerance or what he called " lack of Christian heat ," opposed to outside ideas but without hating those who held them.

The Delegates were not opposed primarily to his initiatives, but to his manner of executing them and his lack of sympathy with the academic way of life.

If this notice is not opposed, or no adequate justification for the delay or lack

He opposed his father's political beliefs, and complained of his lack of influence in government.

Extension and widening of the road was fiercely opposed by environmentalists, who were concerned about the road's proximity to San Francisquito Creek, and by residents of Menlo Park, who feared that completion of the road would increase traffic congestion in their area due to the mid-Peninsula region's lack of a direct north-south arterial.

He opposed immigration from Southern Europe, and argued on medical grounds that Mestizos derived from south Europeans lack " cerebral control ", and are a social load.

In a sermon widely reported in the press, Reverend Peale blamed me for all the lack of patriotism, lack of responsibility, and lack of discipline of the young people who opposed the war.

The main diagnostic criterion to diagnose a cardiac arrest, ( as opposed to respiratory arrest which shares many of the same features ), is lack of circulation ; however, there are a number of ways of determining this.

Although opposed to women's suffrage he believed it was up to the House of Commons to decide, during his premiership three Conciliation Bills were brought forth which would have extended the right to a limited number of women, however these foundered due to lack of parliamentary time and other delaying tactics.

This was at first hindered by the lack of agreement on who qualified as a Jew as opposed to an Aryan, which caused legislators to balk at an anti-Semitic law for its ill-defined terms.

However the coronary arteries are functionally end arteries and so these meetings are referred to as anatomical anastamoses, which lack function, as opposed to functional or physiological anastomoses like that in the palm of the hand.

" Among other criticisms, Sontag opposed the lack of beauty in Arbus's work and its failure to make the viewer feel compassionate about Arbus's subjects.

Key features of a military-specification jacket ( as opposed to a civilian version ) are one-piece back ( some knock-off jackets have a seam across the shoulder blades ; this seam causes discomfort during long flights in a confined position ) and lack of side-entry hand-warmer pockets under the large snap-down patch pockets ( apparently, the military designers did not want their pilots to be seen standing around with their hands in their pockets and believed that a lack of hand-warmer pockets would force pilots to be more productive and appear more professional ) and no interior pocket.

Macro systems often have limited compile-time process flow abilities and usually lack awareness of the semantics and type system of their companion language ( an exception should be made with Lisp's macros, which are written in Lisp itself and involve manipulation and substitution of Lisp code represented as data structures as opposed to text ).

Due to the lack of processing power in computing at the time of its development, the Coverage model employs indexed binary files to store spatial and attribute data separately as opposed to utilizing a RDBMS.

However, characteristically-and depending on the severity of the disorder-individuals do not seek social interactions merely due to lack of interest, as opposed to the avoidant personality type in which there is craving for interactions, but then fear of rejection.

As opposed to in drive theory, which involves negative reinforcement: a stimulus has been associated with the removal of the punishment — the lack of homeostasis in the body.

The General Business Screen was originally developed to help marketing managers overcome the problems that are commonly associated with the Boston Matrix ( BCG ), such as the problems with the lack of credible business information, the fact that BCG deals primarily with commodities not brands or Strategic Business Units ( SBU's ), and that cashflow is often a more reliable indicator of position as opposed to market growth / share.

Key arguments in the protest relate to unaddressed health concerns, lack of notification of the project and road safety ( i. e. proximity to Highway 402, shadow flicker, ice throw, blade throw ).

Theirs is no mere lack of sympathy, but something closer to the passionate hatred that was directed against Fascism.

Since attack serves to stimulate interest in broadcasts, I added to my opening statement a sentence in which I claimed that German youth seemed to lack the enthusiasm which is a necessary ingredient of anger, and might be classified as uninterested and bored rather than angry.

A new South is emerging after the post-bellum years of hesitation, uncertainty, and lack of action from the Negro in defining his new role in the amorphously defined socio-political organizations of the white man.

The thing that is notable in all these discussions is the lack of ideological ardor.

progress, or lack of it, toward civil rights in the 50 states is reported in an impressive 689-page compilation issued last week by the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

( The `` autistic '' child is one who seems to lack a well-defined sense of self.

One of the obstacles to the easy control of a 2-year-old child is a lack of verbal communication.

war is the result of mistrust and lack of understanding between people.

Either it is lack of training, lack of proper screening when hiring, lack of management or possibly lack of interest on the part of the telephone company, which does have a Government-blessed monopoly.

The lack of scientific unanimity on the effects of radiation is due in part to insufficient data covering large population groups, from which agreed-on generalizations could be drawn.

Besides the lack of an adequate ethical dimension to the Governor's case, one can ask seriously whether our lead over the Russians in quality and quantity of nuclear weapons is so slight as to make the tests absolutely necessary.

One matter of concern to the complete effectiveness of pool operations is the lack of adequate central garage facilities.

No satisfactory solution has been found, but this is due more to the difficulties inherent in the problem than to a lack of interest or diligence on the part of the assessors.

One of the greatest obstacles to the achievement of this goal is the lack of trained men and women with the skill to teach the young and assist in the operation of development projects -- men and women with the capacity to cope with the demands of swiftly evolving economics, and with the dedication to put that capacity to work in the villages, the mountains, the towns and the factories of dozens of struggling nations.

It is our lack of extreme accuracy which forces the use of very large yield nuclear weapons.

It is more than just lack of dance training that is our problem, for just as gymnastics can learn from dance, dance has some very important things to learn from gymnastics.

They then point out that with our present lack of knowledge of all the factors concerned in the rise and fall of epidemics, it is unlikely that a planned episode could be initiated.

The one sure way to tell victim and villain apart is to examine the hind legs which in the case of the idler, Psithyrus, lack the pollen baskets -- naturally!!

For four of the six ( the anaconda and the amethystine python cannot be included for lack of data ) there is also a correlation between size at maturity and maximum length, the boa constrictor being the smallest and the Indian python the next in size at the former stage.

Thus, although the agenda of external assistance in the economic sphere are cumulative, and many of the policies suggested for nations in the earlier stages remain relevant, the basic purpose of American economic policy during the later stages of development should be to assure that movement into a stage of self-sustaining growth is not prevented by lack of foreign exchange.