But it is also meant to provide an evidential basis on which to bring a claim for the breach of some right in a court or employment tribunal.

As such, one of their recommendations is that patent authorities actually try to track the impact of changes in IP policy so that there can be a evidential basis for future analysis.

He never dealt systematically with socialist economics, amongst other things because he lacked an evidential basis for theorizing about that.

But this hypothesis lacks evidential basis (e.g. the absence of any post-275 Latin inscriptions in the region, other than on imported Roman coins/artefacts).

It was not just of lesser degree of possibility, but that there was no evidential basis for the assertion at all.

However, it has been suggested with some evidential basis that the young Hitler did read and collect Lanz's Ostara magazine while living in Vienna:

The idea that he somehow swooned on the cross and pretended to be dead lacks any evidential basis.

But I tell you on my word of honor--a phrase I respect, as you know--that the conclusion has no evidential basis.

Gemmotherapy, like many other alternative therapies, lacks an evidential basis and is not accepted as an efficacious treatment by the scientific community.

That is, the analysis and use of text in argumentation is subject to critique as to the evidential basis of inference.