But the most recent high-profile court cases on both sides of the Atlantic have tended to vindicate religious groups.
The Clinton administration has tried to balance sensitivity to Russia's concerns with mounting pressure to do something about a missile threat whose rapid expansion has tended to vindicate the hawks.
Do you all remember that?" It was a pertinent question and not only because it reminded liberals that second-guessing Obama in 2008 usually proved foolhardy, as events tended to vindicate his judgment rather than theirs.
And of course Brooks scoring the first goal by a US sub in a World Cup finals tends to vindicate his introduction, even if the Hertha Berlin man was at fault in his communication with Geoff Cameron on more than one occasion in defence.
Key European leaders sought to block or delay release of the report, which tends to vindicate the Greek position, but these efforts were thwarted by the Obama Administration, which has been pushing for a compromise.
The few moments in the plays where a sententious or philosophical discourse is vindicated rather than subverted by surrounding events tend to be those when a character says that life is like a play.
The people Blagojevich praises tend to be implicated in his schemes; the people he insults are largely vindicated for having avoided them.
They tend to go after companies with weak balance sheets or disappointing cash flows, and sometimes they are vindicated.
One thing to note about the Atlas Principle is that it does not necessarily vindicate the PGA across the board: while the predictions made by the Atlas Principle will tend to comply with the PGA, they don't have to.
In contrast, semantic externalists tend to emphasize different explanatory projects: e.g. situating individuals with respect to objective features of their environment and vindicating the holistic, falliblist, and open-ended character of empirical inquiry.
