The lack of credible governance was compounded by the fact that most colonies were economic loss-makers at independence, lacking both a productive economic base and a taxation system to effectively extract resources from economic activity.

The NRC researchers knew that for their results to be credible within the scientific community and to have the most meaningful results, they had to eliminate bias, and blind testing was the only way to do so.

Harkins believes the most credible theory of the term's origin is that it derives from the linkage of two older Scottish expressions, " hill-folk " and " billie " which was a synonym for " fellow ", similar to " guy " or " bloke ".

In his earliest work, Neusner had argued that the most credible evidence showed that the Second Commonwealth Pharisees were a sectarian group centered on " table fellowship " and ritual food purity practices, and less interested in wider Jewish values or social issues.

Phrenology while not always being the most credible was hardly a fringe phenomenon of the era.

A 2007 review of 13 studies found evidence for the efficacy of hypnosis in the reduction of pain in some conditions, though the number of patients enrolled in the studies was low, bringing up issues of power to detect group differences, and most lacked credible controls for placebo and / or expectation.

Even the most credible international assessment body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ), has refused to attempt subjective probabilistic estimates of future temperatures.

Gideon McDuck ( Gedeone de ' Paperoni in original Italian ) is presented as Scrooge McDuck's younger brother, and mainly appears in Italian comic stories ; in those stories, Gideon is the editor of the newspaper " The Cricket ", the most credible newspaper in Duckburg.

With his proneness to fits of rage and love of hunting Edward is regarded by most historians as an unlikely saint, and his canonisation as political, although some argue that his cult started so early that it must have had something credible to build on.

The majority of intelligence officers did not believe that Golitsyn was credible in this and various other claims, but a significant number did ( most prominently James Jesus Angleton, Deputy Director of Operations for Counter-Intelligence at the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency ) and factional strife broke out between the two groups.

Widely admired for its credible presentation of a comprehensively imagined future human society on both the Earth and the moon, it is generally considered one of Heinlein's major novels as well as one of the most important science fiction novels ever written.

While the word ass has cognates in most other Indo-European languages, donkey is an etymologically obscure word for which no credible cognate has been identified.

There are several versions of the story describing Bonnie's and Clyde's first meeting, but the most credible version indicates that Bonnie Parker met Clyde Barrow in January 1930 at a friend's house.

More mundane health claims, most commonly pain relief, also lack any credible proposed mechanism, and clinical research is not promising.

The names of the families are shown on the various historic maps that date back as far as 1783 – the listing of the Murrell family on the first maps is the most credible explanation of the origin of Murrells Inlet.

However, EMAS is the most credible and robust environmental management instrument on the market, adding several elements on top of the requirements of the international standard.

In this regard, credible intervals are held to be most readily understood by the general public.

The position of the Harper government is notably in defiance of credible evidence of the harm caused by the decades of drug prohibition, contrary to many US states ( most notably Texas ), which are relaxing drug laws.

The truth most likely lies somewhere between these two positions — Wilder's writing career as a rural journalist and credible essayist began more than two decades before the " Little House " series, and Lane's formidable skills as an editor and ghostwriter are well-documented.

* Food Alliance The most credible and comprehensive certification for sustainable agriculture and food handling in North America.

* With the arrival in America of English boxers Jem Mace and Tom Allen, there are several claimants for the American Championship including Joe Coburn and Bill Davis, but the most credible claims remain with Jimmy Elliott and Mike McCoole.

According to a Media Credibility Survey conducted by Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2006, Ming Pao was selected as the most credible Chinese language newspaper.

" Evidently, Julian approved of Kempe's revelations, or at least did not denounce them as false, giving Kempe her most credible source that her religiosity was genuine.

The Time article summarized Chopra's reception and popularity thus: " Of all the Asian gurus …, Chopra has arguably been the most successful at erasing apparent differences between East and West by packaging Eastern mystique in credible Western garb.

It is more difficult with Faulkner than with most authors to say what is the extent and what is the source of his knowledge.

It also provides a frame within which the registration of vital events is gradually gaining force ( though one cannot expect to obtain reliable vital statistics in most parts of the Congo from this source in the near future ).

For this period, as for earlier centuries, pottery remains the most secure source ; ;

Selection of a source for commercial irradiation would involve consideration of numerous factors including required dose rate, load factor, throughput, convenience, safety, and most important, costs.

As `` a matter of fact no such complete solution of the dream has ever been accomplished in any case,, and what is more, every one attempting such solution has found that in most cases there have remained a great many components of the dream the source of which he has been unable to explain nor is the discussion closed on the subject of the mantic or prophetic power of dreams ''.

Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.

Resin from the extinct species Hymenaea protera is the source of Dominican amber and probably of most amber found in the tropics.

Its most important source of revenue, the textile industries, have been dead for almost half a century now.

Although the hardware is limited to four separate sound channels, software such as OctaMED uses software mixing to allow eight or more virtual channels, and it was possible for software to mix two hardware channels to achieve a single 14-bit resolution channel by playing with the volumes of the channels in such a way that one of the source channels contributes the most significant bits and the other the least.

The Artistic License refers most commonly to the original Artistic License ( version 1. 0 ), a software license used for certain free and open source software packages, most notably the standard Perl implementation and most CPAN modules, which are dual-licensed under the Artistic License and the GNU General Public License ( GPL ).

* ogg – a free, open source container format supporting a variety of formats, the most popular of which is the audio format Vorbis.

Being himself without sufficient authority, he appealed in a number of letters, afterward published under the title of Minḥat Ḳenaot ( Jealousy Offering ), to Solomon ben Adret of Barcelona, the most influential rabbi of the time, to use his powerful authority to check the source of evil by hurling his anathema against both the study of philosophy and the allegorical interpretations of the Bible, which did away with all belief in miracles.

Güterbock, is the most likely source of the aegis.

Hollow cathode lamps ( HCL ) are the most common radiation source in LS AAS.

Whorf credited Naquayouma as the source of most of his information on the Hopi language, although in 1938 he took a short field trip to the village of Mishongnovi, on the Second Mesa of the Hopi Reservation in Arizona.

During the Ottoman period, Bursa continued to be the source of most royal silk products.

Swedish folklorist Carl Wilhelm Von Sydow argued against both Scandinavian translation and source material due to his theory that Beowulf is fundamentally Christian and written at a time when any Norse tale would have most likely been pagan in nature.

Glucose is the major energy source in most life forms.

Eventually, the observational evidence, most notably from radio source counts, began to favor Big Bang over Steady State.

The first buses powered by internal combustion engines were used in 1895 and this is still the most common power source.

The most common power source since the 1920s has been the diesel engine.

Textual scholars believe that this is the result of the genealogical passage, in which his children are named, being from a much later source than the Jahwist and Elohist narratives, which make up most of the Joseph narrative, and which consistently describe Benjamin as a child.

The most common starch source used in beer is malted grain.