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A case in point is the dramatically low levels of violence that characterize the present, a fact uncovered by Steven Pinker in his 2011 book The Better Angels of Our Nature.
What has been uncovered thus far ranges from legal but ethically suspect use of tax loopholes to efforts to stash or launder money gained through corruption or other illegal activities.
Economics is a science that can claim to have uncovered few, if any, universal truths.
Although the gene’s function in causing breast and ovarian cancer was uncovered by Cancer Research UK in 1995, Myriad, along with nearly 30 other defendants, argues that the patent is a necessary reward for its research costs.
Soon after the Bali bomb conspiracy was uncovered, earlier explosions that rocked various parts of the country were reexamined.
As much as Russia would like to dismiss the newspaper’s findings, the implications of what Bild has uncovered are difficult to deny.
“Sledgehammer” is but the most recent coup plot to be uncovered, going back to 2003.
The fact that these plots have been uncovered is a clear sign of the maturation of Turkish democracy.
In doing so, she became an enemy of the state, because her work exposed the barbaric policies practiced against the displaced populations, uncovered the truth behind state actions, and called for the restoration of basic human rights.
Close to the Belomorkanal, one of the Gulag's major construction sites, a large mass grave was uncovered at Sandarmokh.
The nefarious practices and management failings uncovered during the yearlong investigation that led to the fines were shocking.
In particular, Glimcher wants to identify brain structures that process key elements of utility theory when people face uncertainty: “(1) subjective value, (2) probability, (3) the product of subjective value and probability (expected subjective value), and (4) a neuro-computational mechanism that selects the element from the choice set that has the highest ‘expected subjective value’…”While Glimcher and his colleagues have uncovered tantalizing evidence, they have yet to find most of the fundamental brain structures.
Of course, people, at first, love seeing the truth uncovered and powerful wrongdoers punished.
But, when it came to corruption, they turned out to be very wrong – a fact that became apparent last year, when local and international media uncovered a raft of corrupt activities, from awarding contracts to friends to purchasing houses from the same friends at below market prices.
The CBRC uncovered 1,272 criminal cases and disciplined 6,826 bank employees (including 325 senior managers).
For Asia's financial crisis of a few years back uncovered many excesses that hid behind the rhetoric of Asian values - the cozy relations between governments and elites; rampant corruption, cronyism and nepotism.
Moreover, investigations by the US Congress into the Riggs Bank have uncovered the suspicious means by which Pinochet and his family obtained their wealth.
All of this was uncovered through the use of software called ooniprobe, which is designed to measure networks and detect Internet censorship.
Thanks to their use of ooniprobe, we uncovered the extent of last year’s wave of censorship in Ethiopia, as well as details of many other cases of censorship elsewhere in the world.
Ooniprobe’s network-measurement data not only confirmed the government’s action; it also uncovered which sites were blocked and the different methods used by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to implement censorship.
Since James D. Watson and Francis Crick uncovered DNA’s structure in 1953, a massive amount of available genetic data has been identified, and novel forms of scientific organization and modes of working have emerged.
For this reason, independent UN experts should assess any evidence that is uncovered.
There should also be an explanation, if weapons of mass destruction are uncovered at other sites, as to why the inspectors could not have found such weapons in a realistic period of time.
(There is some new evidence, uncovered by Jim Pfaus at Concordia University in Canada, that desensitization may be affecting women consumers of pornography as well.)
The National Audit Office’s first attempt to estimate the size of local government debt uncovered a stock worth 26% of GDP at the end of 2010.
Indeed, just as our initial research uncovered no evidence of relative Muslim egalitarianism, we discovered no major difference between preference for sons among Christians and Muslims.
Now that the main combat in the Iraq war is over, the final environmental toll of the fighting can be uncovered through comprehensive on-the-ground analyses and the release of previously privileged information.
Just as the world cries foul when an illegal shipment of ivory is uncovered, we must launch campaigns in the press, on television, and online to bring to account any trader, state official, or company caught selling or promoting low-quality drugs.
When Leon Rozenblit and I uncovered the illusion and its specificity, we ran an extensive series of studies exploring why explanatory understanding is so vulnerable to a false sense of knowing.
Pious lies have been uncovered.
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