Sentence examples for support a contention from inspiring English sources

American intelligence indicates the group enjoys some support from the ISI, although few officials now support a contention by Adm. Mike Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that the Haqqani network is a "veritable arm" of the ISI.

He said he had embarked on his research after failing to find any documentation to support a contention made during the trial by John Rose, a Compaq Computer executive and Microsoft witness, that the 70,000 applications were the reason that Compaq shipped Windows with its computers.

The Congressional Research Service wrote in 2011, "There is no provision in the Constitution and no controlling American case law to support a contention that the citizenship of one's parents governs the eligibility of a native born U.S. citizen to be president".

Moreover, no evidence is established to support a contention that a country's prevalence of depressive symptoms confounds or mediates the observed ecological association.

The California numbers also showed that the fatality rates did not decrease during training hours, when there are no medication regulations, supporting a contention among many veterinarians that the legal and illegal use of drugs has contributed to the high rate.

Also included in the documents turned over to the committee is e-mail indicating there wasn't a serious effort to force the bank counterparties to take a discount, supporting a contention by Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein earlier this month that no one ever approached him with such an offer.

However, other studies do not support such a contention [ 38].

There is a current fashion to attribute "high risk" to mixing alcohol with energy drinks, in the face of data which does not support such a contention.

The fact that total fertility rates are often highest in countries that experience the harsh conditions of war, poverty, and famine 42 support such a contention.

If that is not acceptable politically, there is surely little that can be said convincingly in support of a contention that the suffering of the victims will be justified by the promised future benefits to their descendants" [ 151] (p. 430).

Certainly, this is possible (and once again I am in principle open to this possibility), but, as with the nucleus, there is to my knowledge no evidence that can be used to support such a contention.