Sentence examples for credence from from inspiring English sources

The reports gained credence from scientific studies.

His conviction that music has a role in the aftermath of war gained credence from a powerfully cathartic performance of Norma.

THE origins of the vampire legend lie buried in antiquity, dating to Greece and perhaps Egypt, scholars say, at some point taking credence from the bats that suck the blood of horses and livestock.

He later told climbers that he had found the odd rubber he used to resole their shoes in the violent Tepito barrio, a claim that gained credence from his proficient Spanish.

But the study gains credence from being published in a prestigious peer-reviewed journal, where an editorial by the heads of two federal substance abuse agencies called its findings on under-age drinking "of particular concern".

Biologists and social scientists may have rejected the concept, and many may declare that we are now post-racial, but one's apparent racial identity continues to determine job prospects, career options, available places to live, potential friends and lovers, reactions from police, credence from jurors and whether one can walk around safely at night wearing a hoodie.

Monkey's blub of the week: Evan Davis's theory of interviewing – be less combative and predictable, and you'll get more candid results – gained credence, not from the results of his own offbeat posers about pounds v kilos and how politicians should speak, but from a print profile of Davis himself.

Speaking at a press conference here, physicist Sally Ride, the first U.S. woman in space, said that many girls still face "subtle obstacles" that block their path into science--from teachers who put more credence in answers from boys to school counselors that discourage girls from taking advanced math courses.

These results, though, and similar ones from other models, can be accorded the credence that comes from having been proved right in similar situations.The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines was about a sixth as large as Tambora's in terms of the volume of lava, rock and ash, and about a third as large in terms of sulphur emissions.

The six-month investigation gives credence to complaints from British farmers that they are facing unfair competition from the Continent where pigs are kept in worse conditions.

"I wouldn't put much credence in it from a fundamental standpoint," said John O'Donoghue, co-head of listed trading at Credit Suisse First Boston.