Sentence examples for doubtful evidence from inspiring English sources

Jay scrupulously critiques the sometimes contradictory or doubtful evidence.

"When there's doubtful evidence about whether someone's guilty, they certainly shouldn't be executed," he says.

As there was some doubtful evidence in this case Whitmore's mother was persuaded to procure a more experienced lawyer.

In his autobiography, Fugitive Offender (1965), he claimed that the trial was based on slender and doubtful evidence, and in the long run added to his political reputation.

He became infamous for his personal debaucheries and extravagances and, on doubtful evidence, for his burning of Rome and persecutions of Christians.

Because of a document said to have been found in the roof tiles of his parents' house in 1757, but now missing, there is some doubtful evidence that Shakespeare's father remained secretly loyal to the Roman Catholic Church.

They both said they were doubtful such evidence would emerge.

Ironically, while the educational effectiveness of computers is doubtful, good evidence suggests two other ways to spend money on schools that yield clear benefits.

While she remains doubtful about evidence of a biological basis for depression, Rowe thinks of herself as a scientist, and suggests hopefully that the vast gulf between scientific understanding of the brain and ideas about the mind is narrowing.

Accordingly, he rejected Virginia's contention that the constitutionality of the statutes, given their presumptive compatibility with the equal protection clause, should depend solely on whether they served a rational purpose a question best left to the wisdom of the state legislature, Virginia argued, in light of doubtful scientific evidence.

It is doubtful that evidence of a person's character and past behaviour can have no probabilistic bearing on his behaviour on a particular occasion; on a probabilistic conception of relevance, it is difficult to see why the evidence is not relevant.