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Greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are the only factors that can account for the observed warming over the last century; there are no credible alternative human or natural explanations supported by the observational evidence.
If you want to be credible, tell people only what they believe.
Tom is credible.
That sounds credible, doesn't it?
Tom was a credible witness.
You're credible.
Tom isn't a credible witness.
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We have a credible threat you're being targeted.
It's hardly credible that it should be so short a time.
They make lies credible.
And completely credible and convincing.
The trick lies in obliterating just so much and no more, so that. an identification still can be made based on. as I say, general dimensions. plus a credible sequence of events.
All suspects had credible alibis.
Do you consider the claims of the accused to be as credible as the testimony of witnesses?
In-fucking-credible.
Gentlemen, I don't think this is the place to discuss Sophocles. All we have to discuss is whether the disclaimer is credible.
Look, the fact is, the ALOP has a great reputation, and, I'm sorry, Steve Sanders is a spoiled slug who doesn't come close to being a credible news source.
Again and again credible testimony's ignored.
But I assure you there's a credible explanation for all of this.
Is that credible?
What makes this case any more credible than the 100-year-old mother with the lizard baby?
This agent, is he credible?
The fabulous thing about Mr Gantry is, he's absolutely credible.
They gave me halfway credible material, so I could pretend to Kramer that I was fulfilling my duty.
And so because of the automated and irrevocable decision-making process. which rules out human meddling. the doomsday machine is terrifying. and simple to understand. and completely credible and convincing.
One more credible than your father.
Don't you find that credible?
The more unbelievable it is, the more credible it will sound.
I've got it, Anderson, to appear more credible, is getting a show ready in this theater, am I guessing correctly?
A map that tried to pin down a sheep trail was just credible, but it was an optimistic map that tried to fix a path made by the wind or a path made across the grass by the shadow of flying birds.
I find that scarcely credible.
But why? Because in view of her appearance, it's not a credible thing.
You mean, that I found, I won't credible find again.
Sounds credible enough.
So, the way we must find, must be totally credible.
Credible to the people, to the press and above all, to the judges because if they think you've been coerced, we've got it all wrong.
Meanwhile, different interpretations of the motives for his disappearance don't sound credible.
Hey, what I think, what you think, what he thinks don't mean diddly-squat, because in court she's not a credible witness.
However, the story about the Magic Knights seems credible.
She is saying that if I take this plea to trial the verdict will hinge on the shrink the jury finds more credible.
You told me he was a credible witness.
News and current affairs
Second, where they do consider harmonization, they could favor the less stringent of the original standards, unless there is credible evidence that it would not support the relevant regulatory objective.
To the extent that false flags are imperfect and rumors of the source of an attack are widely deemed credible (though not legally probative), reputational damage to an attacker's soft power may contribute to deterrence.
So the question arises: how are private bondholders to be convinced to get rid of their Greek bonds at a loss if there is a credible buyer of last resort?
It therefore wants to see a credible program for balancing the US budget once the recession ends.
And, tough talk notwithstanding, the Obama administration has yet to offer a credible roadmap for fiscal consolidation.
As things stand in Saudi Arabia, the US administration has no credible ally for change outside of the existing regime.
Little has been done to deconstruct structural complexity, let alone win sufficient public support for a medium-term vision, a credible implementation strategy, and a set of measures that is adequate to the task at hand.
Is it any wonder that China is perceived as an increasingly credible model for much of the developing world, while the US is now viewed as a symbol of hypocrisy and double standards?
If the US gives negotiations one more serious try (a credible offer and a genuine willingness to engage), gets rebuffed, and then does nothing, it will effectively declare itself a paper tiger.
Europe is generally considered more a constraint than as a plan, more as an instrument than a vision nourished by a clear and credible idea.
Governments can, however, provide a credible guarantee, given their power to tax.
So long as the commitment to the exchange rate system remained credible, so was the commitment to halt inflation.
But enforcement of this compromise against extremists will require putting credible and well-armed international peacekeepers in place to hold the parties to the deal.
But the law will deter only if its sanctions are credible.
But credible criticism must be based on evidence - and on generally applicable criteria of judgment.
Of course, markets would view any rescheduling without a credible adjustment program merely as a prelude to a real default later on, thus leading to an even higher risk premium.
China's critics argue that its claims to a peaceful rise are not credible, given the country's non-democratic, one-party system.
At this stage, the best course would be to adopt a credible multi-year plan, based on reasonable but conservative growth assumptions, to reduce deficits to sustainable levels and limit the accumulation of public debt.
America's current budget negotiations should focus on achieving a credible long-term decline in the national debt, while protecting economic expansion in the near term.
Palestine's Hamas, an offshoot of the Brotherhood, succeeded at the ballot box in 2006, but has since failed to deliver credible governance.
While China's rulers aspire to shape a Sino-centric Asia, their efforts to intimidate smaller neighbors hardly make China a credible candidate for Asian leadership.