Sentences with phrase «oddity by»

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Andrew McKenzie and Arno Weber of the University of Pretoria looked for the cause of this oddity by examining the detailed anatomy of impala teeth.

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The oddity is compounded by the fact that, in recent years, the trappings of the disaster film have overtaken other genres as well.

One popular criticism of market - cap - weighted stock - market indexes is that they reinforce overvaluation, and if you are worried about occasional oddities in Chinese stocks — stocks that go up by their daily limit every day for weeks after they go public, for instance — then adding those stocks to international indexes at this particular point in the valuation cycle might worry you.

Ex-gay men are often closeted, fearing ridicule from gay advocates who accuse them of self - deception and, at the same time, fearing rejection by their church communities as tainted oddities.

By focusing exclusively on English we might even have begun to recognize the oddity of our names for certain cardinal numbers such as «eleven» and «twelve.»

But the oddity is produced by the same trend of affairs that stamps the Christian Coalition, or the religious in politics, as aggressors.

These semantic tricks are not simply oddities of a few isolated cults, but the very source of the cognitive power of cults, the means by which cults concentrate power at the top of the pyramid.

All of them were caught by surprise as swiftly moving fire devoured the brittle collections of oddities and the surrounding dry wood structure.

She's just an oddity cashing in on her 15 minuets of fame and being paraded by the GOP tring to reach out to other black voters.

If you guessed any other state than Florida, you're off your rocker, because Florida is currently doing the rest of the U.S. a favor by acting as a repository to our nation's ends, oddities and at least one ominous vessel hailing from undead waters.

As far as I am concerned, though, all of that can be dismissed as a form of communal hysteria, induced by the intimidating oddity of Eco's celebrity.

Almost everybody who has commented on this debate has noted the oddity that the campaign was led by two Brits, Peter Brimelow of Forbes, who is now a U.S. citizen, and John O'Sullivan, editor of National Review, who is not.

This woman is a complete oddity and will be rejected by the overwhelming majority of blacks.

How could the richer animistic aspects of Nature, the peculiarities and oddities that make phenomena picturesquely striking or expressive, fail to have been first singled out and followed by philosophy as the more promising avenue to the knowledge of Nature's life?

As young marrieds we are an oddity in the Netherlands, and often are asked by curious strangers to explain our How and Why.

Where I was an oddity, at that time, I find myself ever more frequently asked for interviews and vegan recipes by professional pastry magazines and organizations.

The oddities and ironies that were so characteristic of this Series began to assert themselves in the third game, at Ebbets Field before a riotous crowd described by Red Smith, then a columnist for the Philadephia Record, as «curious creatures that are indigenous to Flatbush.»

The oddity was memorialized by the split title and Fifth Down.

That's the vibe of this era in MLB history, and it's perfectly encapsulated by the rise of an exciting statistical oddity nearly unheard of before: the immaculate inning.

It was a good game, followed by a good baseball week — one of heroics, arguments and oddities.

The U.S. Olympic win was passed off as a historical oddity: a blip of achievement brought about by a unique combination of great goaltending and home - ice advantage.

When the football media started to remind us about Arsenal's poor record in November in the Premier League under Arsene Wenger, with the stats showing that it was by far the worst month for the Gunners in terms of points per game, it seemed to be nothing more than a statistical oddity.

Some of these oddities have been summarised by Stanley Payne.

By simply amassing a «wealth of experience» in quick fixes and getting fraudulent advantages in his six decades of existence, Ibori helps Nigeria maintains a good place in the comity of those countries where the oddities are the orders.

The oddity of having a mixture of bishops, appointees and those there by luck of birth, is one of the clearest examples.

Although it's not strictly a rebellion — thanks to the oddities listed by Andrew Sparrow here — it's still rather embarrassing for David Cameron.

Instead of a rosy time capsule of Earth and its history and inhabitants made for consumption by unknowable alien civilizations, it carries a dummy in a SpaceX space suit, and will blast David Bowie's «Space Oddity» at top volume from its speakers.

Olga is a refreshingly strong, hard - headed character in this cavalcade of oddities, played with assurance by Lucy Briggs - Owen.

The contest started shortly after Clinton, whose position as a political spouse in 1992 with her own ambition and career, was at the time viewed by some as an oddity and an issue in the Democratic primary.

She kicked off proceedings by quoting David Bowie's Space Oddity, saying: «We've heard this great news about the launch today and Major Tim going up into space.

Walter was legendary for his oddities, including arriving once at Buckingham Palace in a stately brougham drawn by four zebras.

Eventually, some pieces were acquired by the Mütter Museum of medical oddities, in Philadelphia.

Another oddity, described by Bolton's team, is how ammonia wells up from the depths of Jupiter's atmosphere.

Soon, more «hot Jupiters» turned up in planet searches, and they were joined by other oddities.

He was puzzled by oddities such as a growing preference for the word «clarity» over its synonym «clearness.»

The oddity is caused by a scheming bacterium that tampers with its host's reproductive organs and turns male mites into females.

The tune emanates not from an cellphone ignored by a visiting tourist, but from an acoustical oddity: the Great Stalacpipe Organ.

This is exactly what happens in one of mathematicians» favorite topological oddities: the Möbius strip, formed by giving a ribbon a single twist and then gluing its ends together.

It's much more likely that Ata's skeletal oddities are caused by just one or two variants, he says, but «they've not gone and done any functional studies, which you'd normally do to prove that [a] variant was disease - causing.»

The dangerous pollutant ozone, it turns out, is destroyed by hair and body oils, an oddity revealed when researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology compared washed and unwashed hair.

To us land dwellers, even the present - day deep sea is foreign, a crushing black space haunted by spectral oddities: glass squids, carnivorous jellyfish, a fever dream of fluorescence.

Instead, let's look at a turbulent flow as a single physical entity by translating it into a crude metaphor, a swinging pendulum — with some marked oddities.

In the late 17th century, the botanist Nehemiah Grew published a catalogue of oddities held by the Royal Society in London.

The «Lonely Mountain» is another oddity, a conical - shaped mountain about 4 miles (6 kilometers) tall which sits all by itself with no other similar features near it.

The paper describes the lizard as «a biogeographical oddity» that has been isolated from closely related species for an estimated one to two million years, according to genetic studies conducted by two study coauthors.

These two oddities strongly suggest that the appearance of negative health outcomes from protein is due to confounding factors — behaviors or foods associated with animal protein consumption in middle age, rather than effects caused by the protein itself.

Where I was an oddity, at that time, I find myself ever more frequently asked for interviews and vegan recipes by professional pastry magazines and organizations.

It's a design oddity that could easily be fixed by ensuring the lining is proportionally the same as the dress but so far after two seasons of complaining about this no changes from Girls From Savoy's design team yet.

Nonetheless, there are moments of piquancy as children play in the detritus of a wasteful world, and others of sheer oddity as we see plastic morph by the ton into unrecognizable shapes (like giant tubes of toothpaste - like goo) whose processing appears an open invitation to cancer.