Sentences with phrase «polarised by»

And by using the ZIMPOL mode of SPHERE, the team could not only peer deeper into the heart of this cloud of gas and dust around the star, but they could also see how the starlight was scattered and polarised by the surrounding material.

«All the recent evidence shows that we are, as a society, becoming more socially polarised by race and faith,» Mr Phillips concluded.

One legacy has been a membership sharply polarised by when they joined the party: in a recent YouGov poll of Labour members, Corbyn's net approval rating was -46 among those who joined before he became a leadership candidate in 2015 but +36 among those who joined after he declared — and this latter group constitutes 60 % of the total membership.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

This suggests that the polarised debates engaged in by health professionals, of «medicalised» versus «natural» may not always be helpful to women in their care.

The 2013 elections produced a highly fragmented and deeply polarised parliament, in which the strongest list — the right - wing Likud - Beiteinu, headed by incumbent prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu — secured just over one quarter of the Knesset's 120 seats.

The replacement of the more moderate UUP and SDLP by the DUP and Sinn Fein as the largest parties polarised the situation further, making a resumption of devolved government considerably harder, as the DUP formally refused even to hold talks with Sinn Fein.

The second observation is to recall how the advocacy of an overt smaller state argument by many in the Coalition would, quite apart from polarising British politics like nothing since» 83, risk seeing the Left falling once again into a framing trap that pushes the centre of gravity in political discourse even further to the right.

Writing for the Guardian, she warned against her party being «smashed apart by a polarised, toxic, angry battle that is silencing the sensible majority».

Home secretary Jacqui Smith says the government is keen to continue the fight against terrorism by initiating such preventive measures, which she hopes will stop many potential radicals from polarising their views.

On the face of it, the torrid time suffered by Europe since the last elections in 2004 is likely to polarise opinion one way or the other.

Lucas, with support from Dominic Raab, Sadiq Khan, John McDonnell and countless others, has been at the forefront of a growing call for immediate change, polarised around four individual cases which share one common theme: British citizens on the verge of being extradited to America on allegations unsupported by evidence that they have used computers to commit crimes.

The country became more polarised between the two largest parties in 2015 than was the case at any previous post-1945 election: the Conservatives and Labour have more Very Safe seats than before, and are contesting fewer marginal ones — and of the 56 seats won by the SNP in 2015, 28 are classified as Very Safe and a further 18 as Safe.

Following up from his 2015 analysis on the economic and cultural positions of party supporters in England, Jonathan Wheatley uses 2017 data and finds that party supporters have become far more polarised — leaving a gap in the middle, occupied possibly by large numbers of undecided voters.

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

This ability allows them to send secret messages, produced by circularly polarised light reflecting off different parts of their shell.

Users have suggested it is driven mainly by too - frequent posts about polarising topics.

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.

By looking at the microwave background in polarised light, observatories like the South Pole Telescope in Antarctica and the upcoming Simons Observatory in Chile might affect this.

Then again, the ability of pigeons and other animals to find their homes even when transported far away has been «explained» by dead reckoning (remembering the outward journey), vision (landmarks, star maps, polarised light), smell or magnetism.

The new trick added by Chiao and his colleagues is their eraser — a third polarising filter placed between the two holes and the photoelectric detector.

Now, Sujan Sengupta at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics and Mark Marley at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, suggest that the next class of large telescopes should be able to detect an exomoon by looking at the polarised light of the planet it orbits.

By HELEN GAVAGHAN During the 1980s, the debate over animal experiments has polarised, sometimes drowning out the voices in the centre.

According to experiments carried out by Egri's team, the stripes could also disrupt polarised light, making zebras less appealing to the pests.

For the spin - Hall effect electron - spins are generated by irradiating the sample with circularly polarised light.

Players build audiences for their fake news sites by publishing polarising falsehoods, deploying twitter bots, photo - shopping evidence, and inciting conspiracy theories in the wake of public tragedy — all while maintaining a «credibility score» to remain as persuasive as possible.

Some of the proposals reviewed by Stephen Battersby for geoengineering a cooler planet will be a hard sell given the polarised debate on climate change (22 September, p 30).

The arguments surrounding global warming have become so polarised that in my opinion there is no longer a genuine attempt to get to the truth through orignial research, but simply a process of point scoring by either side going on.

However for primary schools the view was relatively polarised with 49 per cent feeling that by 2013 they would continue to be under - resourced.

As an experienced teacher in private schools, I have seen what a positive impact sport can have on young children, yet as a parent of two in state education, I am flummoxed by the red tape that seems to be denying the chance for independent schools to offer the outreach so badly needed in a society increasingly polarised between the haves and the have - nots.

And continues to polarise all the great work and thinking and doing going on in our schools, including that by many of the people listed.

evo subeditor Richard Lane swears by his Waterways (# 165), praising the way the polarised lenses cut glare and offer «superb clarity» even when it's overcast.

The Focus can be ordered with a super-bright head - up display as well; Ford says this is the only system on the market that can be read by drivers wearing polarised glasses.

It's held back by a douchebro protagonist and a story that's polarised in terms of its quality.

By that I mean their art world antics are both polarising and thought - provoking.

Attended by various distinguished guests, art literati and members of Studio Wangechi Mutu, Holten's polarising speech captivated even those of us non-German speakers in the audience.

Polarised is inspired by ways of seeing and being seen, and includes a new body of work featuring sculptural lenses that refract, reflect and distort the main exhibition space.

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.

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 big problem is that by the AR4 advocacy had infected objectivity and now we have this raging polarising debate.

As a result the arguments become polarised and that anyone who raises legitimate concerns about the politicising of the science by default must be claiming that the Earth is not / has not warmed.

Meanwhile, the unfortunate (for you) implication of forcing people to take sides in a polarised debate by raising the opinions of Bastardi, Hannity, and Inhoffe in a discussion about alarmism, is that you force people to make a choice between self - evidently mad alarmism and a position which is closer to reality.

He is informed not by the debate itself, but by the polarised view of the debate, which precedes it.

James Abbott, Managing Director at accountants Abbott Moore and President of the UK200Group, said: «With such a polarising result, I am concerned by the implications of having such a significant part of the USA that adamantly disagrees with the outcome of this election.

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

Unfortunately, court proceedings are by definition polarising and divisive process, pitting one parent read more

It polarises differences rather than respecting differences and encourages behaviour driven by fear of exposure, punishment and self - justification.

The 1999 referendum had an extensive education campaign that was compromised by polarised messaging.