"We strongly suspect there was more than one shooter," White said.
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But, I strongly suspect that's not what Trump is doing here.
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U.S intelligence officials strongly suspect that Russian hackers were behind the breach.
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No group claimed responsibility; U.S. officials say they strongly suspect Iran's local allies.
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The thing is, I strongly suspect Juicero will succeed, at least for a time.
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I strongly suspect that when the facts are reported, there will be nothing there.
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Because Zika is spread by infected mosquitoes, experts strongly suspect that it's transmitted via blood.
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But I strongly suspect we can't even qualitatively judge one to be more effective, either.
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But that data certainly is, and I strongly suspect at least some inside Microsoft know that.
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"We strongly suspect that we could be facing a case of microcephaly," Contreras told local radio.
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I strongly suspect some of what Microsoft is touting with Fluid Framework is hand-wavy foofaraw.
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I strongly suspect that at least part of this decision is to avoid encountering my girlfriend.
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I strongly suspect that, in fact, Hunter Biden did nothing wrong, improper or illegal at all.
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But, "I strongly suspect that he will win without having to rely on intimidation," he added.
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As we first reported, police strongly suspect the 21-year-old rapper died of a fatal overdose.
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I strongly suspect the authors must work with someone with a strong financial interest in this subject.
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But I strongly suspect that it's a sign that bit rot is setting in at One Hacker Way.
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We strongly suspect that the coyote was routinely crossing 8-10 lanes of interstate highway using underground culverts.
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And nor do Trump's closest confidants, senior staff, Republican leaders on Capitol Hill, or, we strongly suspect, Trump himself.
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They strongly suspect that snow shoveling is the cause, though they did not have the data to prove it.
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Fans strongly suspect it's a phrase — "honest to god knock me out" — Ari and crew say often, especially on Twitter.
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I strongly suspect that more than a few Silicon Valley higher-ups agreed with the broad themes of Damore's memo.
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"I strongly suspect that RT Deutsch has a trivial effect compared to Russian-speaking Germans watching Russian television," he said.
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I don't know for sure, but I strongly suspect that it's a public health revolution that is here to stay.
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It's hard to say who has the upper hand here, but I strongly suspect that all is not as it seems.
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No causal relationship has been established between the Zika virus and these health issues, but health officials strongly suspect a link.
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I strongly suspect the fix for this trust issue will need to go beyond a pithier answer to the email question.
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The problem with Cruz's logic -- and I strongly suspect he knew this going into the hearing -- is that it misses the point.
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Something similar, I strongly suspect, was at work in the overwhelming enthusiasm Times reporters exhibited for following up on Dershowitz's social life.
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"I strongly suspect that Google isn't going to go out of their way to address adult film industry complaints," Meyers told Gizmodo.
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Researchers strongly suspect that the two conditions may be linked, due to the recent spread of both in Central and South America.
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Indeed, I strongly suspect many companies spend far more simply staffing their Twitter-related social media campaigns and working with outside agencies.
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Scientists strongly suspect a link between Zika and microcephaly, a disorder that causes abnormally small heads in newborns, but they're not entirely sure.
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In Brazil, a huge spike in the birth defect followed the arrival of Zika last year, leading scientists to strongly suspect a link.
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He beats us to the punchline, and I strongly suspect it's because he's been beaten to it many times before, with lasting damage.
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On Sunday, Johnson said authorities in his country strongly suspect that Iran was behind the attacks on Saudi oil refineries earlier this month.
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But, once again, I strongly suspect tweets bring these companies far higher returns than this proposed monthly fee plus any social media management expenses.
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"I strongly suspect we will see an alpha-male bromance between the two," said Phelim Kine, the Human Rights Watch deputy director for Asia.
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"The (Japanese) government strongly suspect the two engaged offshore delivery which was banned by UN Security Council resolutions," the ministry said in a statement.
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"I don't know anything yet, but I strongly suspect that I'll need to be doing something else soon," Kawczynski told Bangor Daily News on Saturday.
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The iPad Pro will get progressively, iteratively better over time, and I strongly suspect Apple's announcements today will just be another step in that journey.
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I strongly suspect that hardware's piece of that pie is in the low single digits, otherwise Google might be more eager to crow about it.
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I strongly suspect that getting Siri's voice into the Atmos mix is a big goal here, and it'll be cool when the company figures it out.
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Richard JoffeNew York To the Editor: I strongly suspect that most Republicans, if they are honest with themselves, are more relieved right now than anything else.
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So for these guys to get this far with this many people involved in the plot, I strongly suspect we will find an operational link to professionals.
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I haven't seen formal numbers, but I strongly suspect emails have been a far more important source of misinformation about Hillary Clinton (and Trump) than was Facebook.
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German investigators strongly suspect Russian government involvement in the apparent brazen assassination of a former Chechen rebel turned asylum seeker in a central Berlin park last week.
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"Today I saw the first car that I strongly suspect is a Tesla self-driving test vehicle," the Tesla owner wrote, accompanying his post with a picture.
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And I strongly suspect there would be major differences between men and women, as the data we have suggests that violent impulses are much more prevalent in men.
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I strongly suspect that I am not the target audience for Spectacles 33, but in any case I never did feel entirely myself when I had them on.
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"If there are plumes on Europa, as we now strongly suspect, with the Europa Clipper, we will be ready for them," said Jim Green, NASA's director of planetary science.
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It remains to be seen whether what Ivanka Trump did merits an official investigation -- although I strongly suspect the Democratic House will be taking a hard look come January.
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In the process, they hope to confirm the existence of what astronomers strongly suspect lies just beyond: a monstrous black hole, an eater of stars and shaper of galaxies.
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Was convinced all night it'd be Eric Church or Carrie Underwood for EOTY and then Garth Brooks swoops in (I strongly suspect this is due to a split vote).
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"If there are plumes on Europa, as we now strongly suspect, with the Europa Clipper we will be ready for them," said Jim Green, NASA's director of planetary science.
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Cornflakes, cream of chicken soup, and a pint of sour cream in a casserole dish could kill or cure you, though we strongly suspect that it will be the latter.
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"If there are plumes on Europa, as we now strongly suspect, with the Europa Clipper we will be ready for them," said Jim Green, Director of Planetary Science at NASA.
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And given how difficult it's proven to find good interventions in K-12 education, I strongly suspect those foundations can find more than enough projects elsewhere with a higher anticipated impact.
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I strongly suspect that state officials themselves do not have technical or specific plans, so much as a set of 'desired outcomes' which they will pressure the communications providers to deliver.
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If your answer was No. 2 (and we strongly suspect it was), then you're in luck because a litter of five adorable and critically endangered white lion cubs — that's right, quintuplets!
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"It needs to be identified by a taxonomist but we strongly suspect it is the fall armyworm ... Visually, it looks 100 percent the same," he told Reuters in a phone interview.
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"In the current circumstances, we strongly suspect that further escalation in protectionism will lead the Fed to consider easing policy," wrote Michael Hanson, head of global macro strategy at TD Securities.
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"We strongly suspect there is a link between the poachers and the armed terrorists, who could be relying on the illegal ivory trade to finance some of their activities," she said.
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"If there are plumes on Europa, as we now strongly suspect, with the Europa Clipper we will be ready for them," Jim Green, NASA's director of planetary science, said in a statement.
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And the question is does the president (INAUDIBLE) to the -- I suspect tomorrow, strongly suspect tomorrow that President Trump will take a slightly nicer edge line in terms of make that (INAUDIBLE).
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While a direct causal relationship has not been established, scientists strongly suspect a link between Zika and thousands of children born in Brazil with abnormally small heads, brain defects and impaired vision.
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Erik Cummings, New York Dr. Lisa Sanders's wonderful Diagnosis column continues to show embarrassing evidence of the horrible state of not just medicine but also, I strongly suspect, problem solving in general.
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"I couldn't possibly give an informed opinion on the true security of Bluetooth, and I strongly suspect that the protocol designers couldn't either," says Matthew Green, a cryptographer at Johns Hopkins University.
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Some of them might matter to you, but I strongly suspect most will not: Add up all of those catches, from the speed to the screen to the build quality to the above list.
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I strongly suspect it was canceled because of the blowback, not because of a practice many networks use in one fashion or another to get controversial figures to speak openly and honestly on camera.
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It's wonderfully idealistic, but the reality of RSS is that it lacks the features required by nearly every actor in the modern content ecosystem, and I would strongly suspect that its return is not forthcoming.
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I strongly suspect that at least two of those theme entries will be softballs for each of us (which ones will depend on the individual solver); once you get two, you're going to know this theme.
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"I strongly suspect China's People's Liberation Army is pleased to know that Trump would be prepared to dismantle the forward-deployed military presence that has kept the region at peace for over a generation," he said.
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We don't know, but we strongly suspect, that the hacker who publicly claimed credit for the attack is not the real hacker—and that while we're not positive he's Russian, we're pretty sure he's not Romanian.
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" The SIA Legal Team knows of 17 women who've been arrested since 2005, she added, and they strongly suspect there are more they don't know of "because people are probably taking plea deals at the trial court level.
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But since I strongly suspect that the Trump era will feature far less policy making than Trump's radical campaign promised, this seems like a good time to take the policy conversation up, up into the bright blue sky.
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On February 7th, that team delivered their first report to NASA, detailing their recommendations for that future mission, which will search for life by drilling toward the subterranean ocean scientists strongly suspect to exist beneath the icy moon's surface.
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" Continuing, he wrote: "In real life, Daddy would have been very angry were I to do such a thing — and as he is a large man, I strongly suspect I would not still be here to write this letter.
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I strongly suspect that the bill's Republican supporters would come up with all sorts of interesting and contorted reasons as to why health care for the poor and middle class can only be improved if taxes for the wealthy are reduced.
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Well, I strongly suspect that it's an example of computational irreducibility: that in effect the computations it's doing are as sophisticated as any computations that we can do, so there's no way we can ever expect to systematically jump ahead and solve the problem.
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"We strongly suspect that heightened uncertainty and concerns among businesses following the Brexit vote as well as a weakening economic performance will take an increasing toll on the labor market going forward," Howard Archer, a chief European and U.K. economist at IHS Markit, said in a note.
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But the actual answer (as I strongly suspect Rove knows) is actually quite simple: Suburbanites -- especially suburban women -- have a very negative view of President Trump, and that dislike is what is driving them away from the party that had long aligned with their own fiscal interests.
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Let's talk about Day Zero for a moment, though, because as I scan over everything we saw today I am struck by how many of the splashiest announcements weren't products, they were concepts — and I strongly suspect more are on the way today and through the week.
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It also helps explain why the brand new Star Trek: Discovery is exclusive to CBS All Access, and why I strongly suspect that all of these developments will lead to the eventual return of the cable bundle that many people have cut the cord to get away from.
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I strongly suspect that many people who spend long hours at the office often spend only a small fraction of the time doing actual work Indeed, as anyone who's tried it knows, by working at home you can get twice as much done in half the amount of time.
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That is because while audience research shows that all of Y.A has a strong following among adults over age 21, I strongly suspect that it is the Y.A. fantasy novels (paging Leigh Bardugo, Sabaa Tahir, Neal Shusterman) that cross over most frequently into the lives of adult readers.
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On the basis of my familiarity with this system, I strongly suspect that someone in the Obama White House blew a hole in the thin wall that prevents the government from using information collected from surveillance to destroy the lives of the citizens whose privacy it is pledged to protect.
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So I strongly suspect that Chuck Schumer's political operation knew about Ms. Ford's allegations as far back as July and manipulated the process all along to include taking advantage of Ms. Ford's confidences and directing her towards left-wing lawyers who apparently may have violated the D.C. code of legal ethics and perhaps may face their own investigation by the D.C. Bar.
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"So I strongly suspect that Chuck SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Appropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid Colorado candidates vying to take on Gardner warn Hickenlooper they won't back down MORE's political operations knew about Ms. Ford's allegations as far back as July and manipulated the process all along," he said.
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Indeed, I strongly suspect that in a world without the Souter own goal — a world where the Supreme Court had sided with cultural conservatives to the extent one would have expected given the number of recent Republican appointees — a nominee like Merrick Garland could still have been confirmed with Republican votes, and the filibuster could still persist, reserved for the unqualified, corrupt and genuinely extreme.
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Researchers strongly suspect that as the fish was swallowing Tusoteuthis, the head and/or tentacles remained outside the mouth, thus blocking the gills of the fish, and suffocating it as it swallowed its prey.
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A medical student, George C. Eveleth, wrote to Poe: "I have strenuously held that it was true. But I tell you that I strongly suspect it for a hoax."Phillips, Mary E. Edgar Allan Poe: The Man. Chicago: The John C. Winston Company, 1926: 1189.
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Both circumstantial and DNA evidence relating to some of Kraft's murders have caused many to strongly suspect that not all of the murders attributed to Kraft were committed by one person. The prosecution believed these inconsistencies could only be explained by the presence of an accomplice. It is contended that Kraft would have had difficulty moving around 200-pound (90 kg) corpses. Dumping them from moving vehicles while alone would also be difficult to do unnoticed.
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The Germans planned that children, the elderly, and anyone deemed "not fit for work" would follow them. In September 1942, Rumkowski and the Jews of Łódź had realized the fate of the evacuees, because all baggage, clothing, and identification papers of their fellow inmates, were being returned to the ghetto for "processing". The slave workers began to strongly suspect that deportation meant death; even though they had never deduced that the annihilation of Jews was all- encompassing, as was intended.
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No group has claimed responsibility but authorities strongly suspect that Pattani separatists are behind the bombings. On 12 August, the Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha mentioned "bad people [that] have been acting since before the referendum." and "[w]e must not blame one another. We have never hurt or had conflicts with anyone, be it domestic or abroad." Two suspects have been arrested in relation to the bombings with the Thai government stating their motive was "to create chaos and confusion".
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Otto arrives at the house to apologise to Archie for earlier insults and interrupts the robbery, knocking the burglar unconscious before he realises it is, in fact, Archie robbing his own home. Archie returns the pendant to Wanda at their next romantic meeting, but it is interrupted and he subsequently telephones her to call off their affair. Otto arrives at the house again to apologise. Wendy overhears their subsequent garden conversation from an upstairs window, and begins to strongly suspect that Archie is cheating on her.
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The elongate nose horn meanwhile was characteristic of Triceratops, and specifically, the highly advanced Triceratops prorsus. Longrich noted that this animal could potentially represent a dwarf species of Triceratops or simply a Triceratops specimen with a developmental disorder which caused it to stop growing prematurely. Other paleontologists, including Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., have written that they "strongly suspect" Tatankaceratops is merely a juvenile specimen of Triceratops.Holtz, Thomas R. Jr. (2011) Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages, Winter 2010 Appendix.
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Penguin India's description of the novel describes its caste theme, "Despite the strident denials of the young couple, the villagers strongly suspect that Saroja must belong to a different caste. It is only a matter of time before their suspicions harden into certainty and, outraged, they set about exacting their revenge. A devastating tale of innocent young love pitted against chilling savagery, Pyre conjures a terrifying vision of intolerance." A review says that the caste atrocities in the novel indicates "violence and complicity... by the assent of the majority".
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A 1612 copy of this diploma was mis-dated 1 February 925, but the list of bishops confirms the date of the copy in the cartulary of Oviedo. According to a later falsified document of bishop Pelagius of Oviedo, Alfonso III held a council at Oviedo in 899 or 900 and with the approval of a certain "Pope John" (perhaps John VIII was intended) raised Oviedo to metropolitan rank. A document dated 20 January 905 in Pelagius's Liber testamentorum records a large donation made by the monarch to the see of Oviedo and confirmed by Gomelo II. This document is strongly suspect.
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In the movie Oh, God!, God, as played by George Burns, explains to John Denver that "the last miracle I performed was the 1969 Mets." Part of the movie Frequency is set in Queens, New York, in 1969, as firefighter and avid Mets fan Frank Sullivan (Dennis Quaid) and his family follow the "Amazin's" throughout the World Series. In Moonlighting, Season 2, Episode 13, "In God We Strongly Suspect", when David is attempting to define the parameters of Maddie's skepticism and atheism by inviting her to provide logical explanations for various phenomena seemingly beyond man's understanding, he mentions the "'69 Mets" which she immediately dismisses as "a myth and a hoax".
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Stew (David Pasquesi) is the lover that Sara Blank took after Guy Blank’s death. He is married and has two children, Chuck and Patty. He is a “meat man,” a butcher and meat delivery man, which is used as a basis for puns and other running gags throughout the series. In “Is My Daddy Crazy?”, he went temporarily insane and coated the house with cheese before his reflection fired him, and he was cured by Jerri drilling a hole through his skull. He appeared in many episodes of the first and second seasons before Guy’s death, in close relationship with Sara, leading many to strongly suspect they were having an affair.
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In 2007 Finnish theologian Matti Myllykoski (Arto Matti Tuomas Myllykoski) summarised the current position thus: "The authenticity and significance of the ossuary has been defended by Shanks (2003), while some scholars—relying on convincing evidence, to say the least—strongly suspect that it is a modern forgery."Myllykoski, Matti (2007), "James the Just in History and Tradition: Perspectives of Past and Present Scholarship (Part II)," Currents in Biblical Research 6:11, p.84, In 2008, an archaeometric analysis conducted by Amnon Rosenfeld, Howard Randall Feldman, and Wolfgang Elisabeth Krumbein strengthened the authenticity contention of the ossuary. It found that patina on the ossuary surface matched that in the engravings, and that microfossils in the inscription seemed naturally deposited.
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There is also a 1970 reprint, with the same pagination). reports had been circulating in Europe for over three centuries of the existence of a Christian kingdom in the midst of Muslim nations. After the Jesuit missionaries, led by Ricci, had spent over 15 years in southern China and finally reached Beijing in 1598, they came to strongly suspect that China was Cathay; the belief was strengthened by the fact that all "Saracen" (Central Asian Muslim) travellers met by Ricci and his companions in China told them that they were in Cathay. The Jesuit leadership in Goa had been informed by letters from Jesuits in China that China was Cathay but that there were no Christians there.
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Characteristic injuries associated with AHT include retinal bleeds, multiple fractures of the long bones, and subdural hematomas (bleeding in the brain). These signs have evolved through the years as the accepted and recognized signs of child abuse. Medical professionals strongly suspect shaking as the cause of injuries when a young child presents with retinal bleed, fractures, soft tissue injuries or subdural hematoma, that cannot be explained by accidental trauma or other medical conditions.B.G.Brogdon, Tor Shwayder, Jamie Elifritz Child Abuse and its Mimics in Skin and Bone Retinal bleeds occur in around 85% of AHT cases; the type of retinal bleeds are particularly characteristic of this condition, making the finding useful in establishing the diagnosis.
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Lightcurve-based 3D-model of Kovacia In February 2008, a rotational lightcurve of Kovacia was obtained from photometric observations by a collaboration of French and Italian amateur astronomers including René Roy, Silvano Casulli, François Colas, Arnaud Leroy, Federico Manzini, Christophe Demeautis and Jean-François Coliac. Lightcurve analysis gave a well-defined rotation period of hours with a high brightness variation of magnitude, indicative of a non-spherical, elongated shape (). The result supersedes a previous observation by Roberto Crippa and Federico Manzini at the Sozzago Astronomical Station from November 2006, that determined a lower limit of 6 hours (). Due to observed mutual occultation and eclipsing events, the collaboration of astronomers strongly suspect Kovacia to be a binary asteroid with a satellite orbiting it every days.
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A 38-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman were arrested on suspicion of murder, but were later released without charge following questioning. Following the release of the pair Assistant Chief Constable Steve Cotterill said that "While I thank those members of the community who have come forward with information I am surprised by how few people have contacted us. Normally in cases of this scale more information is passed to the police...I strongly suspect that there is someone out there in the community who knows more than we are being told." The parents of the children, Mick and Mairead Philpott, were arrested on suspicion of murder on 29 May and charged with their murders the following day.
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"I strongly suspect, however, that what catapulted hemp to sudden fame and fortune as a cultigen and caused it to spread rapidly westwards in the first millennium B.C. was the spread of the habit of pot-smoking from somewhere in south-central Asia, where the drug-bearing variety of the plant originally occurred. The linguistic evidence strongly supports this theory, both as to time and direction of spread and as to cause."Barber (1992). p. 19. Jews living in Palestine in the 2nd century were familiar with the cultivation of hemp, as witnessed by a reference to it in the Mishna (Kil'ayim 2:5) as a variety of plant, along with Arum, that sometimes takes as many as three years to grow from a seedling.
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Garrison decides to sit out the anthem at a football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Carolina Panthers attended by both him and Clinton, only to be thwarted by the fact that Abrams' reboot simply allows people to choose whether to sit, stand or kneel to honor America. Kyle Broflovski and the victimized girls strongly suspect that Eric Cartman is responsible for the messages, but cannot prove it. Cartman also denies being Skankhunt42, although he does not help his case by attempting to host a girls' stand-up comedy session in the gym and pretending to have been attacked by the girls afterward. At the end of the episode it is revealed that Skankhunt42 is actually Kyle's father, Gerald.
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Within the course of the series, Gary discovers that a few other people share his gift of receiving a newspaper early. The only people who know about his gift besides Chuck and Marissa are his parents, and Erica and Henry Paget, a single mother and her son (Gary gives Erica a job at McGinty's); several times he begins to tell a few people, such as his attorney, and various police officers (Episode 407/408, "Fatal Edition"), but ultimately changes his mind. On some occasions, he is given the ability to wake up in another time (such as in the early 20th century) to change the past. People who encounter Gary often strongly suspect (or know) that he has a secret, but do not know what it is, e.g. Crumb.
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47 Guadalcanal is the large, roughly oval-shaped island in the center-left of the map. Both Allied and Japanese naval forces continued to converge on 22 August and both sides conducted intense aircraft scouting efforts, however neither side spotted its adversary. The disappearance of at least one of their scouting aircraft (shot down by aircraft from Enterprise before it could send a radio report), caused the Japanese to strongly suspect that U.S. carriers were in the immediate area. The U.S., however, was unaware of the disposition and strength of approaching Japanese surface warship forces.; Also early on 22 August, U.S. destroyer was torpedoed off Guadalcanal by the Japanese destroyer which had been sent by Tanaka from his convoy along with to try interdict a small Allied supply convoy to the island.
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On the other hand, Pipe-Major Roger Huth (The Surrey Pipe Band), Vice President of the Scottish Piping Society of London, former member of the Scots Guards, and an esteemed piper, had much to praise about the book in a 2006 review: It is soon apparent when reading through the pages of his book, that John Grant was also a man of considerable intellect. His knowledge appears to be no shallow pool as he explains to his reader the poetry of Piobaireachd as well as how the MacCrimmon Clan and others through the years constructed their compositions. He also explains the theory of music as it appertains to the Scottish Bagpipe and I strongly suspect that those who created their own Bagpipe Schools during the 20th Century, including the Army at Edinburgh Castle, leant on this book heavily.
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Asteroid 2010 KQ Earth Encounter (Source:NASA) 2010 KQ is a small asteroid- like object that has been discovered in an orbit about the Sun that is so similar to the Earth's orbit that scientists strongly suspect it to be a rocket stage that escaped years ago from the Earth–Moon system. The object was discovered on May 16, 2010 by Richard Kowalski at the Catalina Sky Survey, and has subsequently been observed by many observers, including Bill Ryan (Magdalena Ridge Observatory) and Peter Birtwhistle (England). It was given the asteroid designation 2010 KQ by the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who identified its orbit as being very similar to that of the Earth. Orbit refinements by JPL's Paul Chodas and amateur astronomer Bill Gray have shown that this object was very close to the Earth in early 1975, but the trajectory is not known with enough accuracy to associate the object with any particular launch.
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Richard Butler, who led the UN inspection teams in Iraq until 1998, accused the United States of promoting "shocking double standards" in considering unilateral military action against Iraq. He said, "The spectacle of the United States, armed with its weapons of mass destruction, acting without Security Council authority to invade a country in the heartland of Arabia and, if necessary, use its weapons of mass destruction to win that battle, is something that will so deeply violate any notion of fairness in this world that I strongly suspect it could set loose forces that we would deeply live to regret." In pointing out that the United States has not responded in the same way to Syria, which is also suspected of having weapons of mass destruction, and that several US allies, including Pakistan, India, and Israel, have such weapons without having signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, Butler asked why the United States is "permitting the persistence of such shocking double standards". However, part of the U.S.'s position is that Iraq is a unique case.
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