Sentences with phrase «of polarised»

Differences between students within each country and between countries are in part a reflection of polarised views about how best to tackle bullying.

CoinFox tiptoes its way through a cobweb of polarised opinions and confusing official statements.

Apart from the fundamental scientific advances of the breakthrough papers, there is an hierarchy of classes of lesser papers, along the lines of those which — • Confirm or deny the main thrust of a breakthrough paper by arriving from other angles • Provide an alternative or improvement to the main findings of breakthrough papers • Contribute more observation to the breakthrough paper and discuss its relevance • Seek to set a complementary base for a breakthrough in a related aspect of science • Report the views of a clutch of authors about a topic they deem to have political importance • Ditto for educational importance • Write papers that are knowingly lacking good science to place authors in one camp or another • Lambast an author or authors for being on the «wrong» side of a polarised topic • Perform meta analysis Etc..

The found object in art has been a subject of polarised debate in Britain throughout the 1990s due to the use of it by the Young British Artists.

The second sequel to 2013's dystopian satire feels eerily prescient in its depiction of a polarised America.

Take a pair of polarised sunglasses and look at the sky on a clear day.

They found the bats that had been shown a shifted pattern of polarised light headed off in a direction shifted at right angles from the controls released at the same time.

With the right arrangement of crosses, two different pictures can be stored on the same surface at the same time, each visible under a different type of polarised light.

If the bee manages to resist the spider's trap, she finds her way back home by checking the pattern of polarised light in the sky.

Prototypes developed by UK start - up Xeros rely on thousands of polarised nylon beads.

Whether you are Jamie Oliver trying to show support for breastfeeding and rightly recognising a genuine problem — that women who want to breastfeed in this country often face barriers that mean they can't — or a new mother just blogging or tweeting about her personal experiences, speaking out puts you in the direct path of the opinion juggernaut which careers headlong into anyone who dares to take a stand on either side of the polarised infant feeding debate.

Looking at these numbers, it's easy to see why such great things are expected of the polarising Vardy?

Our poll looked at reactions to a number of polarising political issues.

After five years of polarising and radical reforms, the Tories aren't letting up on their vision for schools.

The former ministers, who met under the aegis of the PDP Ministers» Forum, also accused the ruling All Progressives Congress of polarising the nation along regional, ethnic and religious lines.

In spite of being an international bestselling novel, Ready Player One has always been the subject of polarising opinions.

Director: Craig Zobel, Screenwriter: Nissar Modi (USA) Zobel garnered lots of polarising opinion for his last effort, Compliance; both Robbie (The Wolf of Wall Street) and Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) are as hot as they will ever be.

Land Rover has gone quiet on its all - new Defender since it showed a couple of polarising DC100 concepts more than five years ago in 2011, but these images show it's been busy behind the scenes.

The Maruti S - Cross then is the epitome of a polarising design language on an automobile in recent years.

Asus says that it's good for 600 nits brightness, so it should handle bright conditions well enough, although the orientation of the polarising layer isn't practical for those wearing polarising sunglasses: it blacks out in portrait, so you'll have to remove your sunglasses to see the display.

This is helped further by Nokia's ClearBlack technology that comprises of a sequence of polarising layers that eliminate reflections.

Asus says that it's good for 600 nits brightness, so it should handle bright conditions well enough, although the orientation of the polarising layer isn't practical for those wearing polarising sunglasses: it blacks out in portrait, so you'll have to remove your sunglasses to see the display.

Not exact matches

Since the original publication a decade ago, «attitudes to freedom of expression have become more polarised,» said Angela Phillips, a journalism professor at the University of London's Goldsmiths College.

Each subpixel uses a combination of liquid crystals and polarising filters that act like tiny shutters, either letting light through or blocking it.

In a polarising referendum called by the radical leftist government of Alexis Tsipras at only eight days notice, Greeks voted by more than 60 % to 40 % in support of the prime minister, spurning the extra austerity demanded mainly by Germany and the International Monetary Fund in return for an extension of bailout funds.

I also think in North America, Christianity has become polarised and it can make it very hard for some to just follow Jesus without being made to feel that they MUST conform to some denomination, way of thinking or being in order to be accepted.

In a polarising debate that has already played on the public's fear of creeping Islamisation, those who believe in the inherent value of faith - based schools will be hoping that the baby Jesus doesn't get thrown out with the bathwater.

The work he was describing in the seminar was, as the Institute's on - line notice said, an attempt to «cut through both sides of the increasingly polarised debate about how the universe was created, with atheistic Darwinians declaring the death of God, whilst anti-Darwinian creationists denounce evolution as fraud.»

The Christian West polarised even further into a moderate form of fundamentalism at one end and, at the other, into a Christian humanism which showed decreasing interest in supporting the ecclesiastical institution.

It is therefore regrettable that discussion on the subject of Church music can often become polarised, with some debaters appearing entrenched in their positions.

«The immorality of the United States and Great Britain's decision to invade Iraq in 2003, premised on the lie that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, has destabilised and polarised the world to a greater extent than any other conflict in history,» wrote Tutu.

His reputation was severely damaged by the Peasants» War itself, and by the defeat of the rebel armies, Erasmus's book against Luther had finally polarised almost all opinion either pro or contra Luther, and Luther's reply to it would confirm this.

On the other hand, Luther was quite unable to understand the authenticity of the quiet though often acid scholar dedicated to a policy of neutrality, of attempting as far as possible to stand outside polarising polemic — Erasmus came eventually to wonder whether it might have been better not to have written In Praise of Folly, because it had led to just such polarisation.

But there was little motivation for reconciliation among the majority of leaders on the two sides (and very soon more than two sides, because the reformers began to differ fiercely among themselves), who soon became polarised and set in confrontation.

Later he recognised the tact only too clearly, and would soon be polarising his colleagues to the left of him as part of the devil's plans for upsetting him and the reforms.

You don't have to look hard to find an example of how Amazon is polarising Australian retail.

I think we're in danger of becoming polarised in discussions instead of looking at each solution as a part - solution to a greater problem.

Reactions since the loss to Russia of the bid to host the 2018 World Cup have been completely polarised.

However Ramsey, one of the most polarising players amongst the Arsenal fans, did pop his head above the trenches.

As the Premier League becomes more polarised around money there should be no circumstances where mid ranking clubs such as West Ham or Newcastle ever get relegated and even to flirt with it is a sure sign of mismanagement.

Tomas Rosicky has signed a contract extension with Arsenal — but I feel it's a piece of news that might polarise opinion amongst Arsenal fans.

The dynamic of footballer transfers has become polarised by the emergence of billionaires who see owning a football club as a status symbol, and at the other end of the scale, by the growing debt of clubs at all levels.

Generally commentators like to take a polarised view but usually it is a combination of the two.

Big resion debate makes it a controversy as straight sending - off appears to have gone down as one of the most polarising decisions in Premier League history.

Seven of those have come from Ross McCormack, a figure that has polarised opinion in recent weeks.

Yes, the trophy drought is annoying, and it would be nice to see Arsenal win the trophy, but to almost blindly react with #WENGEROUT seems almost thoughtless; there is a time, and a place to have that discussion, but instead of becoming an angry and polarising discussion it should be done when everyone is a little more calmer, and, preferably, at the end of the season.

I don't think anyone would begrudge Cesc the chance of leading Arsenal to FA Cup glory but Fabianski is perhaps a more polarising subject.

I was more interested in reading the various online comments regarding Puel's sacking which were polarised between Saint's supporters, bemoaning the style of football / lack of entertainment served up under his stewardship and, what I took be mostly patronising comments from neutrals (i.e. armchair supporters of big clubs), who suggested that Southampton should simply be thankful for an eighth place finish and were mad to sack him.

My most recent work, «Resisting the Jaundiced Eye» aims to make breastfeeding visible, explores the polarising aspects of woman's identity, and comments on the censure, peering / leering jaundiced eye of society in its unwarranted criticism of and prejudice against women who breastfeed.

The US appears to be, as usual, very polarised about all of this.