"This is hard work, hard empirical work.
But the benefits of these plans are related to earnings, and now the hard empirical facts support early fears.
But when it comes to hard empirical evidence, there is little in the way to back this up.
"You can go out and hold demonstrations in the street," Judge Korman said, "but they're not a substitute for hard, empirical evidence".
In the absence of new data, physicists must steer by something other than hard empirical evidence in their quest for a final theory.
But perhaps the biggest criticism of the Human Brain Project is the idea that a computer model can ever be a substitute for hard empirical research.
Journalists are often furtively grateful for the studies churned out by certain universities that supply hard, empirical data confirming the very obvious.
We don't have any hard, empirical evidence for this yet, but the variety of conflict across different landscapes makes this is a scary possibility.
The High Price of Materialism by Tim Kasser (MIT Press, £9.95) Journalists are often furtively grateful for the studies churned out by certain universities that supply hard, empirical data confirming the very obvious.
The supply-side argument that, in the United States, tax-rate cuts pay for themselves — that, after cutting taxes, the government actually ends up with more revenue — has little or no support within the mainstream economic profession, and no hard empirical data to back it up.
He made a strong case for rethinking the parameters of art history, which, in Britain at least, saw itself primarily as a "hard" empirical study concerned with questions of style and attribution and the uncovering of contextual detail, and which considered questions of critical interpretation to be largely irrelevant.
