But the judge in the case, Victor Marrero has grave and well substantiated doubts.
In the US "there have been no successful lawsuits, no product recalls, no substantiated ill effects, and no other evidence of risk from a GM crop product intended for human consumption".
A spokesman for the UNODC acknowledges "a significant diversification of our portfolio over the previous years" but says that all projects fall within "clear and substantiated mandates" set out by its governing bodies.UN bigwigs deny that earmarked donations give countries more power to shape policy.
"The contention that 'win at all costs' tactics are being pursued by the Asian NOCs in asset acquisitions is simply not substantiated," Wood Mackenzie concluded.Chinese firms do have access to countries that many Western ones do not, such as Sudan and Iran but if they are exploiting oil that would otherwise go undeveloped, they are increasing the global supply and so reducing the price.
Yet there are no substantiated reports of antibiotic-resistance genes jumping from a plant to a bacterium.
Now, says Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a headhunter, "we are seeing CEOs leaving under a cloud of suspected or substantiated wrongdoing .All this is unhelpful to the growth of a healthy culture, "the key to which is consistency," says Dominic Dodd of Marakon, a consultancy that has advised some of the world's most consistently successful companies, including Boeing, Dow Chemical and Lloyds TSB.
Evolutionary theory, a well substantiated theory, tells us that the organic world is multifaceted.
Does the psychological literature offer anything more precise or better substantiated?
None of it has been substantiated, none of it will be substantiated.
That claim cannot easily be substantiated but Roma's defenders could certainly attest that he moves at quite some speed.
