Sentences with phrase «giving unfair»

Back in 2009, when I first began writing about the smear of skeptics at American Thinker, I mentioned a quote from Dykstra at the top of a list of several people who spoke of the notion of reporters giving unfair balance to skeptic climate scientists.

Yes, many people repeat Gelbspan's line about reporters giving unfair media balance to crooked skeptic scientists, but it doesn't take much additional digging to see where a Senior Producer at Turner Broadcasting, Teya Ryan, made her case in 1990 with a lengthy opinion in the Society of Environmental Journalists Winter 1990 - 91 newsletter about media balance being «artificial, a matter of giving equal air time or newshole space to dissenting views of questionable merit.

At issue is the assertion by the Big Three U.S. airlines — Delta, American and United — that the Gulf carriers have received $ 42 billion in subsidies from their governments since 2004, violating open skies agreements by giving them an unfair advantage in the international aviation market.

But penalties for teachers caught cheating, such as giving unfair help to pupils in exams, more than doubled to 262.

U.S. District Court Judge William H. Orrick of San Francisco rejected arguments that the so - called «off the top» funding method violates the First Amendment's ban on government establishment of religion by giving an unfair edge in funding to religious schools.

His superpower is speed, and he would easily outrun anybody in school, giving him an unfair advantage.

Players where human melee attackers could change their rotation and warp towards the player after jump attacking giving them an unfair advantage.

Adeniran also accused the National Caretaker Committee headed by Makarfi of giving unfair advantage to one of the chairmanship aspirant, Prince Uche Secondus, in the battle for the national chairmanship race.

What is unclear at this time is the role former Deputy Borough President Barry Grodenchik, now running to replace Marshall, may have played under the allegedly sanctioned hit jobs which often occur on city time (and at the taxpayers expense) giving an unfair home field advantage to Helen Marhsall's number one guy.

1 - the free kick was taken completely out of position giving an unfair advantage.

By letting someone else take the penalty you're giving an unfair advantage to the other team.

The FCC rules guaranteeing it were designed to protect internet users» ability to access the online services of their choice and to prevent broadband providers from giving an unfair advantage to their own sites and services or to those of their paid partners.

But I believe that having domain experience and relationships gives you an unfair advantage.

It was great for Nexen shareholders, but CNOOC received a lot of negative sentiment from Canadians because it's a State Owned Enterprise, which gives it an unfair market advantage over other energy companies because it's financially and politically backed by one of the richest countries in the world.

Let's say the US finds out that Country X uses generous government subsidies to make its production of tennis balls cheaper and give them an unfair price advantage over tennis balls made in the US.

But one day later, Chinese tabloid Global Times said in an editorial that U.S. subsidies for its soybean farmers have given them an unfair competitive advantage in selling to China and strong restrictive measures need to be taken to prevent dumping.

Our founders work hard and we work to give them an unfair advantage by being a multiplier on their efforts.

The present reward system is out of proportion to present contributions, given the unfair advantage with which the children of the privileged begin.

We also don't want to give unfair advantage to online stores with preordering systems!

Big brewers such as Lion and Asahi are no longer part of the Craft Beer Industry Association, with the army of small micro-brewers that has sprung up deciding to exclude them because their vast balance sheets were deemed to give them an unfair advantage, which didn't sit well with the small business entrepreneurs driving most craft beer companies.

But has fat — even the saturated kind — been given an unfair hearing when it comes to nutrition and diet?

and gives unfair decisions to Leicester.

If a teacher objects to things like more time on tests or lessened workload because they give an unfair advantage, ask if there's some extra credit work your child could do in an area of strength to compensate for that.

Bluntly, your hope is that an issue that matters to you and to many educated middle - class people (but not to most Labour voters, who may well regard the idea in the same way as many Conservatives, as a way to give unfair influence to Liberal Democrats), electoral reform, is important enough to form an electoral alliance over, despite the fact this would leave many party members unable to vote (and who would get to stand in say Durham or Redcar anyway?).

But does it not give an unfair advantage to the countries already possessing nuclear weapons.

They are taking Lettre to court, claiming the rule is a violation of the New York State Constitution, in that it gives an unfair advantage to the incumbent power structure of the party committee.

According to the paper, the bloc is concerned that Britain under Labour would provide generous subsidies to manufacturers that could give them an unfair advantage in trade with the EU, while there are fears that nationalised utilities firms could out - compete foreign rivals.

The poll found that 42 percent of voters believed that Bloomberg's ability to spend millions of his own dollars gave him an unfair advantage, while 87 percent of those polled did not know enough about Avella to form an opinion.

An unfair system doesn't just give us an unfair result, but unrepresentative government as well.

«While WFP regularly rails against business interests, the fact that they control a ballot line in a state that allows fusion voting has given them an unfair influence in campaigns.

The BHA commented on the exhibition earlier this month, arguing that «putting creationist views on display in a National Trust site gives them an unfair appearance of legitimacy.

Still, other lawmakers are concerned that elevating Morelle post even on a temporary basis could give him an unfair advantage over other potential speaker candidates.

Pokalsky said closing the LLC loophole would give an unfair advantage to unions, who would not have limits on their contributions to candidates.

But campaign finance experts say the tactic can give an unfair advantage to wealthy candidates who try to use loans to persuade prospective donors to take their campaigns seriously.

Pokalsky says closing the LLC loophole would give an unfair advantage to unions, who would not have limits on their contributions to candidates.

He argues that because a judge ordered a new Republican primary on October 6, he would only have three weeks to prepare for a general election, which would give an unfair advantage to the Democrats.

Franchise owners, however, say the increase singles them out and gives an unfair advantage to mom - and - pop competitors that won't have to raise wages.

John Grebert, executive director, said limiting retirees only limits the pool of qualified candidates and gives an unfair advantage to retirees from other states or federal jobs.

Currently, dirty energy sources don't have to account for the full cost of the pollution they release into the atmosphere, and that gives them an unfair advantage.

But his J - shaped carbon - fiber prostheses, called the Össur Flex - Foot Cheetah, sparked a debate within the athletic world: Do the devices give him an unfair advantage over able - bodied competitors?

But it does object to Google leveraging its power in search to give itself an unfair advantage in price comparison.

Susan Cain, the author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking and founder of the startup Quiet Revolution, believes that the world gives an unfair advantage to extroverts, by designing institutions like schools and workplaces for them.

While True.com certainly has a right to tout its background checks, it is inappropriate for government to give them unfair advantage.

And most men wouldn't read that kind of books because they are too proud to read a book for women, so reading such books would give you an unfair advantage!

Does it give you an unfair advantage over your enemies?

The only problem is that it gives them an unfair advantage if they are nominated alongside truly supporting roles.

While the film and the memoir have been given the unfair label of being ONLY ABOUT «slavery is bad» (as if that fact alone would not be worthy) many of the more subtle points have been ignored, but is best summed up this way, «It is notable not only for its lucid description of plantation life, with detailed passages on the methods by which cotton and sugarcane were harvested and processed, and how slaves were fed, housed and punished, but also for the author's evenhanded treatment of his subject: although he denounces slavery as an institution, Northup expresses his gratitude to the masters who treated him with gentleness and generosity, and shows a surprising ability to forgive even the most unimaginable cruelties.»

For instance, I give you an unfair coin, but you don't know what the «weight» is and I ask you to determine how to sample from a fair coin using only this unfair coin.

«This bill takes away from traditional public schools and gives an unfair advantage to charter schools,» said Rep. Cynthia Stafford, D - Miami.

In New York States, entire school districts are refusing to even offer the test, a number of courageous teachers in various states are actually refusing to give the unfair and inappropriate Common Core Tests and tens of thousands of parents are stepping up to protect their children by opting them out of the tests.