But if the efficiency argument is weak evidence, the fairness argument is assumed to make the case, and make it for zero percent taxation.
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And the court has unequivocally rejected any sliding scale approach that previously allowed strong evidence of materiality to compensate for weak evidence of intent to deceive.
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"Some of the offences that individually may have had weak evidence to support a realistic prospect of conviction became stronger cases when looked at together, " said Mr Beltrami.
With weak evidence and a difficult case, they pressured KPMG in effect to indict itself, go into deferred prosecution mode, and participate in the case against individual defendants.
As a result, so many of the recommendations about which diet can reduce the risk of heart disease are based on weak evidence and few large trials of diets have been conducted.
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Although drugs are routinely subjected to testing by clinical trials before they are approved and recommended, diets typically have very weak evidence behind them even though they likely have a strong influence on health and disease.
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Mr Napier, an expert on employment law, said officials, including Chief Minister Frank Walker and Chief Executive Bill Ogley, had been too ready to accept "relatively weak" evidence about how the abuse inquiry was handled.
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That has meant that people with dry skin are weak donors and evidence is rapidly degraded in dry conditions or after long storage.
However, something is amiss, when, in the service of advocating a particular policy, activists and health authorities have to base their claims on a weak body of evidence and ignore a much stronger and more rigorous body of painstakingly accumulated data, which helps put the matter in perspective.
The case should be based on hard evidence and I was told the evidence is weak.
True, increased financial trading might make prices more volatile, though the evidence is weak.
Evercore Partners analyst Patrick Wang this morning offered some cautionary comments on PC-related chip stocks, cutting his ratings on AMD and Nvidia and reducing estimates on Intel in the face of ongoing evidence of weak PC demand.
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But even this evidence is weak.
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Granted, this is a weak statement, since the evidence that business education helps with anything is rather scarce (although there is some)!
"The public will decry this decision as it supports a trial of British men thousands of miles from Britain, where the alleged crime was committed simply because in the DPP's opinion, the evidence is too weak to prosecute here, " he said.
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Though evidence for it is weak, this idea may or may not be correct.
One argument for keeping it on the market is simply that the evidence against it is weak.
Anybody who has studied the so-called evidence against Roger knows how weak it is.
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Mary Higgins QC, for Daly, also contended that her client was facing "a weak case based on a scintilla of evidence".
"The scientific evidence is extremely, extremely weak", she said.
In healthy women the drugs don't appear to save lives at all, and the evidence they prevent heart disease is weak: Statin takers have only a slightly better chance of avoiding heart disease than women on a placebo, according to a recent analysis.
The report said the evidence suggested a "probable, but weak, causal link between psychotic illness, including schizophrenia, and cannabis use".
The problem, the researchers found, is that the evidence presented in any one study was usually weak.
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America's experience in 1937 and Japan's in 1997 are powerful evidence that ill-timed tax rises can tip weak economies back into recession.
There is more evidence of slack in the labour market, where weak demand for new workers is helping to hold down wage growth.
Mr Peters and his colleagues see no evidence so far that carbon-control policies, weak as they are, are shifting production to less regulated countries.
Evidence that immigration hurts indigenous workers is, however, weak.
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