reliable evidence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreliableandevidence
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reliable
adjective
uk/rɪˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/us/rɪˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/
Someone or something that is reliable can be trusted or believed because he, she, or it works or behaves well in the way ...
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evidence
noun[U]
uk/ˈev.ɪ.dəns/us/ˈev.ə.dəns/
one or more reasons for believing that something is or is ...
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(Definition ofreliableandevidencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is, however, usually impossible to find independent,reliableevidenceaffixing these to specific calendar dates.
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There is consequently noreliableevidenceof the expectations that underlie the parties' decision to settle.
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They provide noreliableevidencethat the risk for developing cancer in the colon can be prevented by abundant intake of antioxidants in the diet.
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These results would provide a much morereliableevidencebase if the choice of setting were based on random allocation.
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The need to ensure that this care is based onreliableevidenceof clinical effectiveness is paramount.
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In the absence ofreliableevidence, and in the face of other deliberate misinformation, this date - found in his passport - is as good as any.
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Recent behavioral and neuroimaging studies have foundreliableevidencefor face-processing impairments in individuals with autism.
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There is, however,reliableevidenceof this 'by-product' effect for carers of service input to the older person.
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Thus, further well-designed trials might provide morereliableevidence.
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This strategy is more likely to provide valid andreliableevidenceand allow the study results to be more generalizable.
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As such, a good systemizer resists grouping variables together until there isreliableevidencethat these variables have no functional differences.
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Despite the activity in the field of quality improvement there is littlereliableevidenceregarding home care nurses' perceptions and definition of quality provision.
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It appears that areas once free from tsetse-flies have gradually become infested by flies from adjoining country; and there isreliableevidencethat the advance of the fly is continuing.
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Despite the pervasiveness of the computational view, neurobiology has failed to providereliableevidence for an architecture suited to symbolic manipulation and syntactical communication within biological nervous systems.
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Institutional review boards should not preemptively restrict surveys with terminally ill patients withoutreliableevidencethat they will be stressful or otherwise harmful.
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Success depends on good operational measurement - to producereliableevidenceof violations and monitoring progress - and the incorporation nationally and internationally of institutions and policies that reflect those rights.
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The period which has elapsed since the increases came into force is too short to afford anyreliableevidence.
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Noreliableevidenceis available to base an estimate of the prevalence of agoraphobia.
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Sufficient time has not yet elapsed to provide anyreliableevidenceabout the maintenance costs of different types of post-war school buildings.
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This visit was not an idle provocation, but because there wasreliableevidenceof relevant material at that site.
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