Fabulous, colorful, anecdotal stories.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that it is not invoked frequently.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that the trade is significant and increasing.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that this applies not only to human rights treaties.

There is anecdotal information that another country may be producing for internal use, however this needs verification.

However anecdotal evidence suggests there is no discrimination against women in the NGOs in terms of recruitment, promotion or benefits.

They were press pieces and they were full of outrage, they were full of speculation, they were anecdotal no solid information.

Given the statistical limitations, this note draws on anecdotal evidence and the experiences of developing countries' enterprises in internationalization through OFDI.

To date there are no comprehensive official figures on HIV AIDS infections, but anecdotal information points to a high incidence of the pandemic.

However, anecdotal evidence indicates that the prospect of being suspended from receiving support from the trust fund motivated some Parties to pay their outstanding contributions.

1.What is the evidence (systematic or anecdotal) that BITs help to attract FDI flows to developing countries, including the technology and skills associated with FDI?

In its response, the Economic Commission for Africa indicated that there is little detailed information relating to trafficking in Africa, although there are anecdotal reports of such activity.

5. Many experts noted that there is very little practical experience with the use of bilateral investment treaties and the information available on their application is mostly anecdotal.

5. Many experts noted that there is very little practical experience with the use of bilateral investment treaties and the information available on their application is mostly anecdotal.

In addition, there is lack of validation of the estimates of the lost resources, even by means of anecdotal descriptions of fish kills at the time of the alleged damage.

Cocaine use is on the rise, especially in Spain, Great Britain, and Italy. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence indicating traces of cocaine found on bank notes and in water supplies.

There are no available statistics on the extent of trafficking or the number of victims but anecdotal information points to a widespread pattern involving several persons and thousands of child victims.

The confiscation of agricultural lands and their transfer to settlements, which has occurred on numerous occasions, may well result in loss of agricultural income and employment, though this has never been quantified beyond anecdotal reporting.

Romney would also repeal Obamacare the 2010 health care reform legislation because it is scaring small business from hiring. But the evidence for this claim is meager and anecdotal. nbsp A recent survey found that most small businesses support the reform.

, and numerous anecdotal observations have claimed that it possesses quot anti addictive quot properties. It is claimed that this is a rapid and easy means of interrupting addiction not only to opiates, but also to cocaine, amphetamine, alcohol and nicotine and polydrug dependency syndrome.

Tunisia, the fêted success story of the Arab uprisings, has contributed the largest number of foreign fighters to the Islamic State an estimated 3,000 (mainly young) people. Anecdotal evidence shows that many of the parties in the various conflicts are using children to fight their wars.

Although no reliable data exist on the prevalence of drug abuse in Afghanistan, anecdotal evidence suggests that it has increased during recent years, which may be explained as a consequence of the hard living conditions caused by a prolonged war, combined with the increasing availability of both opium and heroin.

The latest anecdotal evidence from the US indicates that the economy is taking a sharp downward turn, which should become manifest in the coming months. Unless the ECB picks up the pace of interest rate increases now, the goal of interest rate neutrality may not be politically feasible, jeopardizing achievement of the bank s price stability goals.

We need to drive a national, if not international, Framingham type heart study of independent living technologies, where we have 10,000 elderly connected households with broadband, full medical characterization, and a platform by which we can start to experiment and turn these from 20 household anecdotal studies that the universities fund, to large clinical trials that prove out the value of these technologies.

The center of Paris and other French cities may be grand, but many immigrants from North Africa and elsewhere live in squalid ghettos on the outskirts. Although the precise rate of unemployment for particular ethnic groups is not known (French law precludes collecting data by ethnic classification), anecdotal evidence suggests much higher levels of joblessness for immigrants and their descendants.

But the new road has raised concerns, particularly in the US, that it could serve as a smuggling route for drugs and weapons, so the military feels obliged to set up checkpoints. Unfortunately, early anecdotal evidence suggests that these safeguards may ultimately slow down traffic by roughly the same amount of time that the project was meant to speed it up!

For example, Stephen Harmston s oft cited 1998 study points to anecdotal evidence that an ounce of gold bought 350 loaves of bread in the time of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, who died in 562 BC. Ignoring the fact that bread in Babylon was probably healthier than today s highly refined product, the price of gold today is not so different, equal to perhaps 600 loaves of bread.