Sentences with phrase «as biased towards»

Bundled into this debate have been arguments about the content of the history curriculum in particular, which has been labelled by the Coalition as biased towards left wing values.

The split between male and female daters is not as biased towards men as you might think — 48 % of all game players are women.

I suspect that a commercialised BBC would be just as biased towards a party whose output in recent weeks has not been worth the pixels or radio waves used to disseminate it.

The above meant that many Puerto Ricans saw the referendum as biased towards statehood, especially given that the governor, known as strongly pro-statehood, was the figure pushing it.

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As with many long / short equity funds, Tiger Veda was faced with steadily rising equity markets since the financial crisis, which resulted in an increasing bias towards long positions.

We ought to have a little bit of bias towards our own market, but not nearly so much bias as we evidently have.

Among the explanations that have been put forward are the increased credibility of central banks in controlling inflation (inflation rates remain below 3 per cent across the developed world), the low level of official interest rates in the major economies reflecting low inflation and the continuing weakness in some economies, a glut of savings on world markets particularly sourced from the Asian region, and changes to pension fund rules in some countries which are seen as biasing investments away from equities towards bonds.

So now CNN is biased towards Muslims??? After doing a great job of portraying them as terrorists and murderers for the past 10 years, what brought about this change??

The irony here is that this bill would have actually increased attacks upon religion, as many gays and lesbians, as well as their supporters and those who are not biased towards them, are actually also members of churches, albeit more liberal ones.

Since it is more important for a proposition to be interesting than true, the traditional regard for propositions as the matter for judgments and the bias towards truth (even the expression «truth - value» is prejudiced against false propositions) has nearly dealt a fatal blow to the understanding of propositions» dynamic role in the universe.

That bias towards the sayings found among scholars, is reflected as well in popular interest.

It is as though the righteous God of Israel were showing a curious bias towards all who are weak and oppressed, towards the down - and - out who can not help themselves, the fatherless and the widow the deaf and the blind, the stranger and the poor.

Overall, this little treat was a big hit with my parents, as even my mother (who is like me and is biased towards chocolate desserts), couldn't help but be excited for the mini crumble to come out of the oven.

I may be biased towards these though as I've been eating heaps of them lately Audrey @ Unconventional Baker recently posted... Almond, Rosemary, & Pine Cake

AFSA emerged with the Peoples Food Plan as a response to the Governments National Food Plan, which in their analysis showed «heavy bias towards corporate agribusiness, large - scale food manufacturing, big retailing interests and a flawed public consultation process».

Here are the seven sides to have brought in the most tourists last year, and as you will see there is a clear bias towards teams based in the capital...

His bias is on the same level as Ian Wright's towards Arsenal and there is good reason why Wrighty does not do commentary — because he is too biased.

However, these academic sources lead to the same conclusions as SportsInsights.com's independent research: that there is a bias towards betting on underdogs and unders; and that «Betting Against the Public» can lead to value.

We have seen academic studies that verify the bias towards underdogs in the NFL (as well as in other major sports).

We have seen sports betting academic research that verify the bias towards underdogs in the NFL (as well as in other major sports).

We have seen academic studies and research that verify the bias towards underdogs in the NFL (as well as in other major sports).

I often refer to its claims myself, but I just can not see this ref is biased towards us, maybe just less biased against us than some, as the article says.

That's why there has always been a premium on players who excel in putting the ball in the net; when Manchester United boss José Mourinho bemoaned Manchester City «s ability to «spend striker money on full - backs», he was exposing the game's bias towards goal - getters, and their rightful position as football's most valuable assets.

This does lean towards bias; however, so does the assumption that homebirth safety needs to be proven through empirical research but hospital birth is blindly accepted as safe because this birth environment has become the societal norm.

There are people who watch things like this, people who may already have a bias or a poor understanding of homeschooling, and unfairly use it as further fuel... justification to continue to mistrust, misunderstand, or hold animosity towards alternative means of education.

Some Members of the Minority walked out of the chamber following what they described as a bias posture of the Speaker towards the Majority.

Judge Garaufis has repeatedly shown his bias towards the City's reasonable arguments on hiring in the Fire Department, and Judge Scheindlin, in certifying as a class everyone who has been stopped and frisked by the New York City Police Department, has twisted class action law in order to serve her own political goals.

In the broadcast era, TV news was the number - one broadcast - era gatekeeper, which is one reason conservatives still rage against a «liberal media» and «media bias» that they saw as directed towards them.

Telephone interviews are usually done during the day biasing the results towards stay - at - home moms, retirees, and the unemployed, while most people, for some reason, do not respond to mobile phone surveys as eagerly as they once did to landline surveys.

This system heavily biases the vote towards increasing the number of seats of the top two parties and reducing the seats of smaller parties, a principle known in political science as Duverger's law, and thus minority governments are relatively uncommon.

David Cameron «lectured a business audience in India» on the need to have 50 % of company directors as women while «just four of Cameron's 22 - strong Cabinet are women» while «as for the educational background of Cabinet ministers, God help any university which showed such a bias towards public school types.»

The report comes as David Cameron tries to bat away Labour demands for the resignation of Jeremy Hunt over allegations of bias towards News Corp's bid for BSkyB.

Gerrymandering: at the moment, the system is biased towards Labour; the other changes as I understand them, which are not subject to the referendum and therefore irrelevant to this debate, will reduce (but not eliminate) this bias.

This, he said, is as a result of concerns by some party supporters that the leadership of the NDC is biased towards certain candidates who are believed to be the party's favourite.

My prediction draws on the Labour List poll of Labour Party members as the basis for the CLP prediction except that I think that the Labour List sample is likely to be slightly biased towards the Centre - Right of the party and I therefore give both Abbott and Balls slightly more and David Miliband slightly less.

As a result, the rules are very heavily biased towards the defendant, and there are no systems in place whatsoever to protect witnesses.

Old Liberal campaigns continue, with calls for constitutional change, particularly reform of the electoral system to end what is seen as the institutional bias towards two - party politics.

Articles from Europe and North America are more often biased towards issues of climate change mitigation, such as emission reductions, compared with articles from the southern hemisphere.

The report blames wishfulness, anxiety and a bias towards simple explanations as typical factors that distort neuroscientific fact into neuromyth.

Heterogeneity in a bacterial population that arises through a mechanism of biased partitioning of drug efflux pumps, as we identified in our study, could be a stepping - stone on the path of bacterial populations towards antibiotic resistance.»

Previously British Roman archaeology had tended to be biased towards excavating high - status sites such as villas, as these were what researchers had chosen to investigate.

He warns not only about gaps in data, but also about biases — such as where researchers choose to sample, which can skew a data set towards or away from certain regions or types of environment.

This biases our results towards assuming deeper origins of genes than may be the case (if, for example, some phylogenetic incongruence arises from horizontal gene transfer), but we consider this property desirable as it makes our analyses conservative.

The highest purity searches to date have made use of relatively clean signals such as the presence of emission or absorption features at two distinct redshifts in the same optical spectrum (e.g. Bolton et al. 2004), or the strong «magnification bias» towards detecting strongly lensed sources in the sub - mm / mm waveband (e.g. Negrello et al. 2010).

We are biased towards olive derivatives (olive oil, olive leaf extract and squalene) as core ingredients for our natural skin care products due to their profound antioxidant, protective and absorption qualities.

We are biased towards olive derivatives (olive oil, olive leaf extract and squalene) as core ingredients for our skin care products due to their profound antioxidant, protective and absorption qualities.

I'm biased towards this doc, as it is the only film I've screened in weeks (and I average 5 movies per day) during which I did not briefly think or seriously consider «Yeah, I'll watch the rest of this later.

Fighting is accomplished by means of a fairly standard turn - based battle system which is heavily biased towards getting the elements of your attacks (& defence) correct, as characters and monsters in the game will often be able to deflect or even absorb some types of damage.

I'm still a little biased towards Tekken but this current instalment of Dead or Alive features all 24 characters from the original number «5» line - up such as Kasuma and Ayane, including Akira, Pai and Sarah from Virtua Fighter.

Useful for Yr 11: Options, Time or for the Parents» Evening - a bit biased towards Lancaster Uni as it's the major Uni around here!