Sentences with phrase «significant factor in the race»

Not exact matches

According to Aveni, the race of neither the officer nor the unarmed suspect was a significant factor in decision - making.

I wrote yesterday about House Speaker John Boehner's diss of Wendy Long when he said there's no «significant» US Senate race in New York — a factor that could hurt down - ballot Republican congressional candidates who are fighting to retain their seats or oust incumbent Democrats.

Another factor in this race: The Campaign for Primary Accountability, a nonpartisan super PAC that targets incumbents, is devoting some of its significant resources to supporting Espaillat.

The first televised Arizona Senate debate shed light on an overlooked but potentially significant factor in this closelyfought race: A third candidate.

In the court's majority opinion, Kagan described the two - part analysis utilized by the high court when plaintiffs allege racial gerrymandering as follows: «First, the plaintiff must prove that «race was the predominant factor motivating the legislature's decision to place a significant number of voters within or without a particular district.»

The differences in risk were reduced, but remained statistically significant after adjusting for several factors, including age, race, BMI, birth control use, hormone replacement therapy, number of pregnancies, physical activity and alcohol consumption.

Age, race, family history of breast cancer, history of a breast biopsy, and mammographic breast density are also significant factors in determining a woman's risk in the BCSC risk calculator, Henderson said.

For some parents, race has been and will continue to be a significant factor in the decision to go private.

According to National Review, «Lawmakers have tied $ 4.35 billion in Race to the Top grants to the adoption of standards similar to those found in a significant number of states, and they've made the adoption of Common Core a major factor in securing a No Child Left Behind waiver.»

An intersectional view of difference would suggest that locating it in race alone discounts equally significant factors of class, gender, education, sexual identification, and labor.

A covariate was included in the multivariate analyses if theoretical or empirical evidence supported its role as a risk factor for obesity, if it was a significant predictor of obesity in univariate regression models, or if including it in the full multivariate model led to a 5 % or greater change in the OR.48 Model 1 includes maternal IPV exposure, race / ethnicity (black, white, Hispanic, other / unknown), child sex (male, female), maternal age (20 - 25, 26 - 28, 29 - 33, 34 - 50 years), maternal education (less than high school, high school graduation, beyond high school), maternal nativity (US born, yes or no), child age in months, relationship with father (yes or no), maternal smoking during pregnancy (yes or no), maternal depression (as measured by a CIDI - SF cutoff score ≥ 0.5), maternal BMI (normal / underweight, overweight, obese), low birth weight (< 2500 g, ≥ 2500 g), whether the child takes a bottle to bed at age 3 years (yes or no), and average hours of child television viewing per day at age 3 years (< 2 h / d, ≥ 2 h / d).

Race of the mother was among a number of additional classification factors examined in deriving the core model but was not included because it was not a significant predictor of outcomes once other terms were included.