How To Use Factual In A Sentence

There is no factually established minimal toxic level or maximally allowable safe dose for diquat. The Daily News Tribune Homepage RSS
We aim to correct factual errors as soon as we can. The Sun
Critics saw this move into the thriller genre as an admission of the inauthenticity of his supposedly factual work. Times, Sunday Times
artifactual" proof that sound recording existed before CDs and MP3s. Undefined
The Court of Appeals held that Hallberg was judicially estopped from indemnity from Portland because his claim was factually inconsistent with claims he made defending the previous suit on which he had prevailed. One less bell to answer (Jack Bog's Blog)

So too does the naive confidence in the factual basis of scientific belief. Science, Technology, and Social Change
Exclusion of relevant evidence because of non-conformity to some legal rule can also undermine the factual quality of acquittals.
The flattish factuality of the poem well conveys its embarrassed self-accusation.
At a meeting on July 11 the Government analysed in detail the Russian position and reached the decision that it was ungrounded and with no legal or factual basis.
There are no factual inaccuracies, they have the same information. Times, Sunday Times
These involve both factual distortions and misrepresentations of the Geneva Convention on POWs.
We are now sanitized and correct, factual and precise, but tragically bereft of relationship.
With the arrival of the internet, the problem of distinguishing factual from fake has become far more acute. Times, Sunday Times
My view is that before anyone opens their big bazoo and starts yawping on about Megrahi deserving death etc, they should actually read if they can read up on the factual foundations of the case. The Case Of The Dying Bomber: Megrahi and Lockerbie « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
Desdemona's remarkable, if temporary, recovery from asphyxiation is the most counterfactual thing in the play. Winters Tale follow-up
There is, of course, no factual connection between the two - if anything, the zealot opposes him and all his works and pomps.
She gave a clear, factual account of the attack.
But that wouldn't be a distinction between natural versus artifactual. De Facto Intelligent Design in Biology
Some have even maintained that causal statements can be analysed in terms of counterfactual conditionals.
However, equally I don't think one can credibly take a blithely post-modern approach and mutter vaguely about ‘multiple truths’, if basic historical factual assertions have been misstated.
In most academic classes, a lot of dense factual and conceptual information can come at you rapid-fire, and when one is taking 15 – 19 credit hours, I know that I certainly could not have recalled minutiae from a spare outline, even if I had been fully engaged. The Volokh Conspiracy » Laptops in Class Redux
How watertight do you need these to be, factually?
I say that on a factual basis rather than making a political point out of it. Times, Sunday Times
I was the first to send this picture in, and I am kind of grumped to see the author ignore my factual information that "Formoza" translates to "Levitation" in this advert. Formoza: We Are Competent Formoza The Time
If evidence is to be called on factual issues, it is likely to be mainly about the usual industry practice relating to installation of blow-out preventers.
Hitherto, male storytelling took place in the public space and was associated with the narration of epics or factual events, current or past.
Far from being just a communication of factual data - "informative" - the loving truth of the Gospel is creative and life-changing - "performative" cf. Archive 2008-04-13
We hope our media can provide us with relevant, factual and balanced information.
I am neurochemist-turned-attorney who just expected a little more by way of factual support for Carter's bias or lies a Clinton-esque lie for example. "Being a former President does not give one a unique privilege to invent information..."
Most of these are points where my grammar and style failed me; some are where the copyeditor is saving my butt by pointing out factual inaccuracies or confusing passages. In which I steal an old post «
Such cases do, however, present quite serious factual difficulties and the law has been concerned to ensure that a meritorious plaintiff does not fail for want of proof.
Checking the factual accuracy of the new social security information items proved to be a greater obstacle than usual.
Like all histories and memories, the history of the self is always orchestrated from fragments of information, both factual and fictional, into a conceptual matrix that re-presents truth or reality.
For instance, depressed individuals tend to use more counterfactuals, and in particular, more counterfactuals for "controllable" events1. If We Had a Cognitive Account of Counterfactuals, This Would Be It
I say that on a factual basis rather than making a political point out of it. Times, Sunday Times
Pin-sharp and coldly factual, the images are all the more valuable for being entirely unposed. The Times Literary Supplement
You'd better give us as much factual evidence as possible.
But here we run up against the difficulty that this formulation appears to derive a prescriptive conclusion from two factual premisses.
We may conclude, for example, that 90 percent. of convictions were factually correct.
But then Brooks’s counterfactual is pointless, because you can’t choose to marry someone you can be happy with. Matthew Yglesias » Eternal Recurrence
That had been the subject of factual exploration and is well covered by findings of fact.
Unsuccessful attempts at administering the epidural should be recorded factually with no editorial comments.
There is no factual, theoretic, historical or evidentiary basis for “fiscal stimulus” or money dilution as cures for economic disasters. Matthew Yglesias » Was Health Reform a Political Blunder? How Could We Know?
Twitter can be used to publish factual information provided there is no political spin. Times, Sunday Times
Research suggests that counterfactual comparisons help people draw preparative lessons for improved future performance.
There is no factual basis to support that contention. Times, Sunday Times
Be responsible for CMM, ensure factuality of the measurement result.
The trust also provides qualified counselling along with factual and practical information.
Other courts in analogous situations have concluded that the impossibility was factual: State v. Mitchell, 170 Mo. Matthew Yglesias » Financial Crisis and Causation
In the period when Mao Tsetung reflected on the Cultural Revolution, he demanded the whole party to study Marxism, especially Marxist philosophy and he had factually identified the ideological reason.
In that context I feel like it isn't the established word factitious, but rather a new one meaning "half-factual, half-fictional". Languagehat.com: FACTITIOUS.
In a review for New Humanist of two recent books written by political bloggers - Liberal Fascism by National Review Online blogger Jonah Goldberg, and The Liberal Defence of Murder by Lenin's Tomb author Richard Seymour - he finds that in the transition to the printed page all the faults of those with 'blogorrhea' are starkly revealed: sloppy research, cheap name-calling, historical immaturity, overstatement, distortion, factual errors and near-endless repetition. New Humanist Blog
The story is an exercise in counterfactual genre criticism in which a professor tells his class about the fictitious history and non-existent antecedent of Poe's famous story "The Masque of the Red Death" (1842). REVIEW: The Best Horror Of The Year, Volume 2 edited by Ellen Datlow
It's factual but artistic, a truly arresting image. Times, Sunday Times
Journalism, however, does often capture art in real life. Photojournalism is one means of doing that. Writing that's grounded in factual reporting is another.
The trick for the dems will be to convey the importance of the factual situation regarding cloture abuse ... and in large part that meas getting the media on board. Think Progress » White House Signals That It Will Fight Back Against GOP Abuse Of Filibuster
Factual and forensic evidence makes a suicide verdict the most compelling answer to the mystery of his death.
In the term actual grace, actual does not mean "real" or "factual," but About.com Catholicism
Children have voracious appetites for authenticity, but in drama we should never intimidate them with factual information.
Factual and forensic evidence makes a suicide verdict the most compelling answer to the mystery of his death.
Where uncertainty or dispute exists and it is necessary for a some factual determination to be made in order to comply with the brief, only tentative or provisional views will be expressed.
Very often, when you look at what the defense attorney now labels a recantation, you see that in fact the witness has not really recanted anything at all, but instead has merely asserted somehow or other that they think the individual is innocent usually in the abstract, without addressing specific factual questions or prior statements by that witness. The Volokh Conspiracy » New Way to Resolve Actual Innocence Claims in Capital Cases?:
I think most judges give weight to this factor in reaching their factual conclusions.
The book "Cybil" is based on the life of Shirley Ardell Mason and she and Dr. Wilbur worked on the factuality of the content and was one of the first publications to bring to public eye "Disassociative Identity Disorder" or commonly called "Multiple Personality Disorder". Weiner: Obama speech may end 'Sybil' health-care message
Ministers following public consultation will take final decisions based on the factual appraisal and views expressed by interested parties.
Any comparison that is not strictly factual runs the risk of being interpreted as subjective.
This approach can still be seen in the work of those who use artifactual evidence as primarily illustrative of a prior and textual history.
To obtain the factual details, the adviser will complete a confidential questionnaire.
Even concepts for completely factual comparative ads were carefully judged by the candidate's sense of fair play.
So, professor, there's another slip of your "factuality" for you — and not pennyante either! Nelson Algren: An Exchange
You'd better give us as much factual evidence as possible.
This cannot be a bad thing, as there are many biographies and handbooks that provide substantial factual information.
Still, the majority of the scientific community has largely dismissed the concept of psi -- no matter how reputable the investigator or prestigious his or her affiliation -- as frivolous, artifactual, not replicable, or having effect sizes that are so small as to be meaningless regardless of statistical significance. It's About Time: The Scientific Evidence for Psi Experiences
I'm not sure I necessarily agree with all of her points -- my thought regarding the character's shadow selves is not that they are a literal expression of a factual inner self, but a depiction that illustrates how that person fears being perceived, generally. Archive 2009-02-01
Sandrart's story of Caravaggio's death is easily interpreted as an apologue rather than as biography because there is so little ground to confuse moral and factual truths.
Eliadis makes another statement that can only be called factually inaccurate: If these longstanding laws were truly a threat, they would surely have diminished freedom of speech in Canada by now. Ezra Levant: February 2008 Archives
She denigrated the piece as "uninformed speculation," and ridiculed what she characterized as the factual errors in the piece. The New York Times Puts Up Its Dukes
The retailer of the anecdote intends it to impart a message, the success of which depends on the degree to which the hearer regards the anecdote as factual.
I, however, choose not to be so elusive, and am more than willing to fill in the blank: the preservation rule does not apply if a portion of the defendant's factual allocution negates an essential element of the crime, casts significant doubt on his guilt, or otherwise calls into question the voluntariness of his plea. A Felony DWI May Not Serve as a Predicate Felony for Assault 2d
To check for artifactual halogenation of proteins, each batch of samples subjected to hydrolysis contained an additional sample of albumin.
Based on the discussion above, we can hypothesize a link between a type of counterfactual thinking and learning.
On a much smaller scale, the writer of the opinion column in my local paper talks bull every week, completely contradicting the factual articles sharing the page, which infuriates me.
All the quirks of strange fiction, to put it in a pertinent perspective, all the counterfactual errata, the hypothetical novae, the metaphysical chimerae — Nazi presidents and robot stormtroopers and butterfly-winged faeries — these are not pure invention. Creative Control - Part 4
The more deep-seated problem is not factual accuracy but the writer's perspective on his subject.
One aspect of peer review that may not be fully appreciated is that we trust the authors to be submitting factual data. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Useful Reset: What Peer Review Is and Is Not
Often the question at issue will be the application of uncontentious principles of public law to a particular factual situation.
The maximal flow—minimal cut theory was explained in the paper. A period of construction—cost optimization about a factual project was analysed.
The issue is fundamentally one of the fitness of things - of the comity of my learned friends appearing on both sides of the table, as it were, in respect of what is fundamentally the same factual matrix.
I have apologised if I've got the information wrong and have corrected factual errors which will enable me to know the factual background.
Furthermore, as Sommers hammers at a variety of what she calls factual errors, she conveniently sidesteps an important assumption undergirding her attacks on liberal feminist scholars, which is that they have an agenda and she doesn't. "And Your Little Dog Too!!!" Christina Hoff Sommers Still Wants The Ruby Slippers
Factual: the night-time temperature at the pole is around - 130C () Mars Ain't The Kind of Place To Raise Your Kids. In Fact Its Cold As ... - NASA Watch
The number of factual errors are too many to make this series worthy of consideration. Times, Sunday Times
If they did not divulge enough factual information, the audience began to exchange shrugs. Times, Sunday Times
Our ability to grapple with the challenges these present is not enhanced by factually inaccurate and hyperventilated appeals from those who should know better. How Bill Gates misinterprets ed facts
And every now and then, he writes these hysterical, factually insupportable, logically inconsistent screeds against some looming threat to civil liberties in the United States.
Factual and forensic evidence makes a suicide verdict the most compelling answer to the mystery of his death.
Both shows start with the results of an actual business or challenge and it is uncanny how, in the face of those factual results, people still look to blame others, the circumstances, the economy, the weather, the "bitchiness" or some other failing of their partners or teammates. James M. Lynch: Simon Cowell: A True Friend
There was no factual basis for any of them,' his lawyers will argue. Times, Sunday Times
There is no factual basis to support that contention. Times, Sunday Times
And I don't use that term condescendingly, I use it as a matter of factual concern. The Purdue Exponent
He can say things that aren't necessarily factually correct and get away with it.
Overall, Lewis presents his factual materials dispassionately and carefully.
Not only that, but it's the infectious happiness of the manner, with the very sterile, factual detailing of demise that is the content.
Marchant builds up a factual record of dereliction in Stepney with the intention of conveying a sense of loss.
The core of the actual evidential argument, once you strip away the assertion of factuality, is that the term "outcry" is consistently used to relate to murder victims, and that we should therefore consider it to mean murder victims on the context of Sodom. Wisdom, Justice And Mercy
What we really don't know factually is whether Rove lied to the president or whether the president knew something about Rove's role and dissembled," said Rozell. 08/11/2005
That was not only a factual error but an argument based on the wrong priorities. Times, Sunday Times
Much of nature's factuality strikes us as both messy and unpleasant but no less fascinating thereby.
These attempts at cross-cultural and transhistorical contextualization occasionally lack nuance and border on the factually inaccurate. The Times Literary Supplement
And anyway, as realclimate. org has painstakingly shown, the real problem with the book is not 'contrarianism' - it's that the factual underpinnings of its 'contrary argument' are easily proven to be wrong. Discover Blogs
Evidence is detailed factual information from primary and secondary sources. A Short Guide to Writing About History
I think this is an entirely fallacious argument, with little to no factual support.
A simple, strictly factual approach gets the best results when you talk about money. The Sun
The unfortunate use of the phrase "simple-minded fundamentalist literalism" is a reference not to religious fundamentalism per se (ie, that religious truth is factually true as well) but rather to what Catholics call sola scriptura. Latest Articles
The lavish praise is only possible because the book note is riddled with factual errors and misleading innuendo from start to finish.
I’m not interested in subpart (b) because I’m calling bullshit on the factual premise. Matthew Yglesias » The Gendered Division of Labor
This is to provide a sort of counterfactual analysis of the continued existence of unperceived objects.
The book is often mistaken in its views and incorrect in the supposedly factual information it contains.
This increased complexity appears to have co-occurred with a change in subsistence patterns, as evidenced by bone chemistry and faunal and artifactual data.
Try to keep your account of events as factual as possible.
Once the purely factual purpose of the system becomes assimilated, resistance to, and fear of, constructive criticism should weaken.
Factually, I would like to point out to you that there are more boxing promotions staged at York Hall than there have ever been in the last 30 years.
Sir, It is the year of centenaries and your article on Sri Aurobindo B.J.July 31 tempts me to record factual data, to the generations to come. Archive 2008-02-01
Our administrative law scholars put lots of their studies on the concrete administration behavior in the past, and look down upon the administrative factual behavior.
The emotions give warmth and feeling, but through them factual perception and logic are all too easily ruled by imagination.
Various forms of generalised insult and uncivil ad hominem attack have too often been the norm, and the opportunity for factual and disciplined analysis of where Lomborg's book may be wrong is largely forgone.
The view that the Confrontation Clause and the Right to Trial by Jury are merely precatory, to be ignored whenever a prosecutor wants to admit an “Expert” report, or when a factual issue can plausibly be characterized as merely a sentencing factor? The Volokh Conspiracy » Reflections on Day 1:
In practice this may not be onerous as very limited factual information is contained in the typical advertisement.
In English the indicative mood is used to make factual statements, the subjunctive mood to indicate doubt or unlikelihood, and the imperative mood to express a command.
Seeking realism, the programme uses the grammar of factual television: when a new character enters the room, the screen freezes and their name and job-title is typed on the screen.
Archaeology is not simply the finite body of artefactual evidence uncovered in excavations. Random quote on archaeology
The uncritical assumptions that these are victims of Chernobyl does not demonstrate a factual case but is rather evidence people's willingness to take in just about any piece of argumental trash as long as it supports their opinion. Marklynas.org - home
Any comparison that is not strictly factual runs the risk of being interpreted as subjective.
The reported information was of a factual nature, and so could be unambiguously coded.
He has slammed an unauthorised biography which he claims contains 'factual errors'.
It promises to bring together bio-scientific and artefactual evidence to determine if visitors could have Viking ancestors. Viking ancestry exhibition opens at the Jorvik Viking Centre in York
A factually accurate restatement of my position, but a kind of litotes, like saying Lucy Liu is not very hideous at all. The Volokh Conspiracy » Would the Public Support “Cap and Refund”?
Instead one has to go back to the language of the clause in its documentary and factual context and try to see what it means.
He wants to do some shiny floor stuff as well as factual programmes and we can offer that kind of wide-ranging deal. The Sun
At once, Larry realizes what he must do: Leave his preteen son behind in New York, rush to Washington, D.C. and rescue his artifactual friends from an eternity in storage. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
I know that he earnestly and seriously believes the factual content of everything he says.
We aim to correct significant factual errors as soon as we can. The Sun
It's good that the hits on McCain are substantive and fact based, rather then simply making character assertions like McCain's "celerity" ads, these bring factual evidence to the table. New Obama Ad Hits McCain On Number-Of-Houses Gaffe
One could try to modify the orthodox account to accommodate these factual discrepancies.
A factual programme such as this requires no music. Times, Sunday Times
In their undergraduate years they are drilled in factual knowledge and scientific method, and rarely see patients outside hospital buildings.
Just because something "is" a certain way scientifically or factually, does not mean that is the way it ought to be in an ethical sense.
He uses the term ignorance to include not only factual ignorance but also philosophical confusion, and ignorance about what kinds of things are good. Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #18
Its too-tasteful palette of moss green, taupe, deep mustard and soft white was only partly offset by the raw factuality of the underlying wall's fissures and patches.
Counterfactual history - the history of might-have-beens - then becomes much more than an exercise in subjective speculation.
It is not difficult to envisage that the promisee may incur a factual detriment and the promisor a factual benefit meaning that enforcement of the bargain would sensibly acknowledge commercial reality.
Does his equation of language with factual discourse express a kind of positivistic intolerance? A Special Supplement: The Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy
Results show that, the roughness, factual dimension and surface parameter keep good concordance, and they can all characterize the angularity of coarse aggregates well.
Theories come and go as our factual knowledge increases. Science, Technology, and Social Change
Wikipedia states that as an online encyclopedia, it presents factual accuracies from a neutral point of view, and is not censored for the benefit of any one group. 2008 February 17 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
If a lower court commits a factual or legal error, the Supreme Court will not grant a writ of certiorari simply to review that error.
Thus Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd -- an obscure North Walian princeling whose only factual claim to bardic fame had been his nautical bent and eventual disappearance at sea -- was euhemerized by Tudor propagandists into the pre-Columbian discoverer of America. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2
The reader wants to know what factual material was wrong and what the true fact is.
We aim to correct factual errors as soon as we can. The Sun
A particularly atrocious George Will piece, abusive of sources and any valid claim to legitimate factual discussion, has raised an outroar in the blogosphere that has now moved to major environmental organizations calling on The Washington Post to correct Will's disinformation. A. Siegel: New York Times Stands in Solidarity with Washington Post
It takes a fairly intelligent person that has a lot of random factual tidbits in their head to be an effective blatherer, and DLR is that person. David Lee Roth: Amtrak FM « BuzzMachine
“Possible artefactual basis for apparent bacterial growth at 250°C.” First Contact
The decision was written in such a way that I had a hard time discerning the factual time line of this case, but I believe that the following factual recitation is correct. New York Civil Procedure
You have posed a counterfactual question, an imaginary question.
And these two youngsters give a very pure factual version of what they saw.
The biography contains several misspellings and occasional factual errors.
He has only to blow raspberries out his nose and the structured factually based opinions of others just crumble before his incomparable wit and wisdom.
All theories should be built on a foundation of factual knowledge.
It was just a factual report. Times, Sunday Times
There are factual inaccuracies, too, such as stating that Ignace Murwanashyaka, a rebel leader, was involved in the Rwandan genocide he was not and suggesting that another rebel, Jean-Pierre Bemba, was involved in the 1998 rebellion led by the Congolese Rally for Democracy. Digging for the Truth About a Dirty Trade
In your desire to blacken the reputation of Indonesia, you have resorted to the dissemination of falsehoods, misrepresentations and innuendos without any factual basis.
This I regard as quite ludicrous, and factually so removed from reality as be laughable.
The existence of unresolved factual issues was not itself a reason for avoiding judicial review. Times, Sunday Times
This is analogous to the law relating to the fire services and quite close factually to Alexandrou v Oxford.
We don't give direction, just provide factual evidence. The Sun
Moreover, artifact sortals can be essentially or nonessentially artifactual.
The job is to try to communicate facts and factual information about these issues.
I don't know what "antidotal" facts are, but a factual record in a court is more systematic than an anecdote. When divas attack, Part 2.
In my view, the distinction between factual and conceptual questions is fraught with problems.
When you're aware of the object you're aware actually of a whole situation that involves the physical world, the environmental world, and in this case the architectural or artifactual world. Deepak Chopra: Interview with Alva Noe, Ph.D.
The document is factually correct.
But Parker is asking about the actual as opposed to artefactual nature of the weather-station trends themselves, not about whether they are representative. Parker 2006: An Urban Myth? « Climate Audit
There can be no room in the due process of criminal justice for the jury to import factors outside the ambit of factual evidence.
Both factual and fictional texts contribute to our knowledge of risks surrounding cellphone use as a biohazard that is a threat to individual bodies and to the social body.
Like all miscellanies it is uneven, and at times factually unreliable. The Times Literary Supplement
the realm of factuality must be distinguished from the realm of imagination
Authorizing links can also serve as enhancing links when their content is factual or as commenting links when the content is opinion.
Others have pointed out the factual inaccuracies in most of the coverage.
The awing counter-factual here is that if youth showed up this election the way they did in 2010, then the Democrats would in all likelihood maintain control of the House. Meredith Bagby: Losing the Youth Vote Means Losing the House
"The history is complicated; the factual disputes are legion."
The event might be entirely mythical but if the myth expresses a true relationship, then for us it is as valuable as a factual incident.
But it was conditional upon the objective existence of the factual circumstance, that is, that the termination was unfair, harsh or unjust.
James is able to retain an enormous amount of factual information in his head.
Since flavour is an emotive as well as a factual quality, it is hard to pin down.
The emotions give warmth and feeling, but through them factual perception and logic are all too easily ruled by imagination.
I'm sure your 'factual comments' will have much impact on democratic voters and the Democratic party, REALLY IT WILL. dan davenport Clinton takes on TV pundits at distillery stop in Kentucky
I have an investigative phase, what I call a factual phase, once the investigation has resulted in information, and then a legal phase. CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2003
Factual assent to an armed assault is one matter; ideological commitment to it another.
However, where there are grounds for doubt or uncertainty on factual accuracy, this needs to be indicated.
For example, a Likert scale is entirely unsuitable for asking factual questions about behaviour.

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