City contractors made exaggerated, possibly fraudulent claims to reach the mayor's inflated job placement goals; the Finance Department, run by a former Wall Street type, botched tax exemptions and property evaluation reviews; and the public housing authority's claims that it promptly answers emergency calls and fixes elevators contradict available evidence, not to mention common sense.
This strict new rule is not based on data, indeed it contradicts available evidence.
The other interventions lacked scientific evidence either because of their rather poor design or because of contradicting available evidence.
Polymerase binding intensities per se are not yet measured experimentally, but their predicted values do not contradict available indirect biological data (ref. to sub-section 5 under Methods).
However, a network composed entirely of such genes would lack robustness (any link deletion would, at a minimum, change the output of the target gene), which contradicts available evidence [ 14, 31, 32].
-- Statements by the President and the Vice President indicating that Saddam Hussein was prepared to give weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups for attacks against the United States were contradicted by available intelligence information.
Although Maynard Smith's verbal model predicting synchrony of senescence appears over-simplistic and is contradicted by available empirical evidence, evolutionary genetic theory can provide explanations and predictions regarding observed patterns of asynchrony in ageing rates.
In applying the scales, the factors taken into consideration included: the extent to which the policy was consistent with evidence in terms of the definition of the policy problem, the definition of objectives, the description of the strategies and actions, and the extent to which the elements of the policy contradicted the available evidence.
This contradicts the available evidence: India has been growing at twice the pace of Brazil yet has a poorer record for reducing poverty.
The idea that less than 20percentt of people who fit this description are white is deeply suspect, and contradicts all available offending data.
