Like alligators living in the sewer, many urban myths assume a life of their own despite a total lack of supporting evidence.
No weakness in Crown case left unprobed And there was always, indomitable, Gerald Gardiner, that rock among silks and monument to unassertive sanity, whose final address had left no weakness in the Crown's case unprobed, from its implicit snobbism in the matter of factory girls to its total lack of supporting testimony.
Last week's article about recent discoveries relating to the origins of the mysterious phrase "the whole nine yards" drew a huge number of online comments, most of them from people whose certainty about their own pet theories was matched only by their total lack of supporting evidence.
Despite a total lack of radio support, the record sold well, if not spectacularly; it took four years to pass 1m copies.
Instead of integration and assistance, I have witnessed the total lack of mental support and infrastructure provided to these men, who – fresh from the trauma of their time in detention – have been left to fend for themselves far away from media scrutiny and the national spotlight.
"Barking mad," he says, though he seems pretty resigned to a total lack of official support.
Our generation of women sprinted towards the promised land of true parity between men and women, but too few have partners who are interested in a role as co-parent; too many work in organisations with a total lack of flexibility, or who fail to support them in managing dual roles; and too many face casual sexism, day in, day out.
RNA interference knockdown experiments indicate that the total lack of ALMS1 impairs cilia formation [7], supporting the inclusion of ALMS in a wide class of human genetic disorders called "ciliopathies" [8].
The near-total lack of strong support for nodes subtending multiple superfamilies, with especially low bootstraps along the "backbone", is sobering.
The membership of Hepatoplasma to Mollicutes is also supported by the total lack of a cell wall (Wang et al. 2004), which is a physiological specificity of Mollicutes (Razin 2006).
