But with no empirical way to establish a tea's provenance, many buyers are easily duped.
But T20 is such a difficult format to measure in such an empirical way.
This allows planners to evaluate their design before implementation in an empirical way.
So we simply don't have a very good empirical way to answer this question; there isn't enough data.
The essential factor, the carbon content, was known to no one, east or west, but the Japanese found an empirical way of selecting the sharpest steel.
To study something in the typical empirical way a science would, you don't understand much of what makes life actually work by just pulling it to pieces.
When totals on these machines differ from exit poll projections, we have no empirical way to determine which numbers are correct.
The best empirical way to estimate the "bounce" a candidate will get out of a state is to look at how he performed relative to his polls.
The study marks the first time that purpose as a possible outcome of higher education has been studied in a rigorous, empirical way.
I've always thought so, though I admit that it's a less precise and empirical way of judging the social effect of music than, say, determining whether or not you've got a country station in your town.
Marketers like to talk about something called brand "equity," a combination of familiarity and positive associations that clearly has some sort of value, even if it's impossible to measure in a convincing empirical way.
