Sentences with phrase «loaded dice»
"Loaded dice" refers to dice that have been altered or weighted in a way that makes them more likely to land on certain numbers. It is a term commonly used to describe a situation where someone is cheating or manipulating the outcome in their favor. Full definition
No single weather event can be attributed to climate change, but a warming climate does load the dice in favor of heavier extreme precipitation events.
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First, warmer waters load the dice for stronger winds.
Since we have never had to cope with 13's, this could prove far worse than simply loading the dice toward more 11's and 12's.
Twenty years ago he tried to load the dice by claiming his models were skillful at predicting regional climate.
That climate change would load the dice in favour of more intense disasters is well established.
I then showed how climate change is loading the dice for warmer and more extreme weather, while showing there would still be some cold and snowy days.
In this world, where the game is played with loaded dice, a man must have a temper of iron, with armor proof to the blows of fate, and weapons to make his way against men.
As climate scientist Michael Mann says, global warming is like loaded dice.
At this point, Utah is rolling loaded dice.
The coelacanth's odd method of reproduction also loads the dice against survival.
The other thing he did not talk about how we are in an interglacial period and how it might be a good idea to load the dice just incase cooling starts.
(2) Historically it conjures up exactly the wrong ideas — or at the very least loads the dice against an impartial examination of Aristotle's real meaning.
«I think Harley Barker loads the dice far more in favour of Trebell than against him, but he mitigates that by making some of his aspiration naïve, perhaps,» Michell says.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, Earth's average temperature has risen by 1.6 °F, effectively loading the dice toward more record years today and moving forward.
«Climate change has not loaded the dice in any way for this early fall blizzard,» Edwards said.
According to Dr. Kevin Trenberth at NCAR in Boulder, Colo., an increase in water vapor floating overhead, triggered by warming of the atmosphere and oceans, is already loading the dice.
Loading the dice simply doubled the odds.
As climatologist Michael Mann says, it's like throwing loaded dice; you might have gotten two sixes naturally in any given throw, but over time they'll turn up more than they should randomly.
Think of it as playing craps with ever - so - slightly loaded dice.
«But the fact that they're occurring more often and more consistently, in part we may be seeing climate change loading the dice.»
If the company starts loading the dice, does the FTC step in to correct Comcast's business practices, or does the FCC address its transmission practices?
After being accused of cheating with loaded dice, the two evade capture while being chased by a bull and hide in barrels, which are shortly loaded onto one of the ships to be led by Hernán Cortés (Jim Cummings) to the New World.
It's not like you've never heard of loaded dice!
Nussbaum has loaded her dice by using novels whose overt purpose is precisely to generate sympathy for marginal figures.
Carbon pollution is distorting the climate system, loading the dice for extreme weather.
The situation is analogous to rolling loaded dice: one could, if one was so inclined, construct a set of dice where sixes occur twice as often as normal.
Here's a followup to my piece on how greenhouse - driven warming is loading the dice toward more hot weather extremes.
And I guess I've loaded the dice with the «heroic» and the «heavy lifting» parts.
Theologians get around this by watering down God's powers until they are no longer contradictory, but that is loading the dice, and it's not how scripture has it.
THERE WERE NONE» was one of the variations on this theme, cried wistfully by the PM, presumably recalling a time when he could cheat at Blackjack and load his dice and no one from the FSA gave a damn.
She told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme it would «load the dice» against key public sector workers such as nurses and be «poisonous for industrial relations in the UK».
It is loaded dice.
Despite the loaded dice, Love Orchard is an entertaining and well made picture, with the added attraction of Bruce Dern.
According to a study by Education Datalab, the Kent Test, the entrance exam in Kent, was a «loaded dice» against pupils on free school meals because they were not coached for the test, unlike their wealthier peers.
June 2004: Loaded Dice by James Swain Retired cop and gamesman Tony Valentine makes a living uncovering crooked gamblers.
Uriel Barthélémi + Nikhil Chopra in 3 hr performance Floating cities & loaded dice @ Gare du Nord — October 18
Fact is, at this point no weather is uninfluenced but no single event is «evidence» in a court of law sense; you can't isolate it but when a whole season is out of whack we're human and note it confirms the loaded dice impression.