If a fully trained federal prosecutor can't outpersuade a criminal defendant, then perhaps either that prosecutor ought to consider a new line of work, or there truly are mitigating circumstances that a judge ought to be free to consider at sentencing.Here's another: "The idea that low-level drug possessors are getting draconian sentences is a myth".
A system which believes that a small group of self-selected possessors of the truth knows how to run everything is sooner or later going to run into the wall.
Even when the part of the paper devoted to describing the methods used is up to snuff (and often it is not), performing an experiment always entails what sociologists call "tacit knowledge"—craft skills and extemporisations that their possessors take for granted but can pass on only through example.
It is the women who are pretty and competent; stalwart farmers and good hunters as well as the possessors of outstanding culinary, nursing and dressmaking skills.Mr Banks's "Cloudsplitter" is a real heavyweight.
That comparison brought the number of people examined to 718, a fifth of whom were possessors of KL-VS.The six-point IQ gap is an extrapolation, since the cognitive tests did not measure general intelligence directly.
The history of nuclear weapons has been defined by avoiding their use and constraining the number of their possessors.
These look at many possessors of an interesting trait, or sufferers from a disease, to see where they seem to have unusual DNA in common.
Some code used to analyse data or run models may be the result of years of work and thus precious intellectual property that gives its possessors an edge in future research.
In the midst of the energy crisis of the 1970s, there was much talk that marine energy would let its possessors break free of OPEC.
Many possessors of stolen Khmer art argue that it is safer in their hands than it would be in Cambodia, but this may no longer be the case.
A mere 24 hours after an interview at a fast-growing local software company, he had a new job and a 30% pay rise.The Seattle strike is about the possessors of an old skill trying to hang on in a changing world.
