Like most boxing movies, there is no sense of the technique of boxing, no sense of how precisely LaMotta was "scored" by his judges in the absence of a knockout – though it is his furious refusal to accept the judges' decision in that extraordinary opening sequence which is to show us his crazy arrogance and insecurity.
The method adopted here is a useful addition to the real world policy evaluation tool kit, where programme effectiveness needs to be judged in the absence of an established control group.
The governor's decision in March of last year to appeal the decision has put on hold the reforms ordered by the judge, and in the absence of legal compulsion, the governor and the Legislature have done almost nothing to make education financing serve all of New York's residents.
The local police, prosecutors and judges -- in the absence of federal financing -- are slavishly dependent upon governors to pay their salaries and even to provide housing.
Hence, the EAC judged that, in the absence of any direct comparator trial data, estimates from separate studies, i.e. effectively indirect comparisons, should be used in order to make best use of the evidence that was available.
NICE has previously judged that, in the absence of studies reporting utility values for the specific ocular condition, these utility values most accurately reflect the HRQoL associated with visual impairment [ 34].
Then in 2009, a Federal Court judge ruled that in the absence of a new clemency policy, the government had breached the duty of procedural fairness.
They then bathed the bugs in different colored lights: If the defocus of green light is important to the spiders, then they should not be able to accurately judge jumping distance in the absence of green light.
Wong's attorneys cited the Look Tin Sing case, and the district judge agreed that in the absence of clear direction from the Supreme Court, this case definitively settled the question of citizenship for Wong and others like him as far as federal courts in the Ninth Circuit were concerned.
Apūrva denotes, then, the temporally remote consequence of ritual acts what it is, in other words, in virtue of which a correctly performed Vedic rite can be judged efficacious, even in the absence of any immediately observed effect of the expected kind.
