Sentences with phrase «which polarises»

I suspect that it will be a game which polarises opinions among Vita gamers but I loved almost every aspect of it and I'm very happy that the Vita remains such a strong platform for imaginative experiences like Metrico.

Never Say Never Again is a score which polarises opinion like few others; whatever its merits in the film, the theme is a sexy and impressive one, with the fluttering flute solo (so typical of the composer) a particular highlight.

Bech photographed the crystals again last year through a series of filters which polarise light reflected from the solution.

At the Art Students League, he caught art and socialism all at once, not least because his near neighbours, Julius and Ethel Rosenbergs, were sent to the electric chair for espionage in 1953, in a celebrated case which polarised America.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

It was so totally dispiriting: everything I'd come to abhor about the politics with which I'd grown up: insular, petty, polarised.»

«No - one opposes fair immigration rules, but that doesn't require polarising publicity stunts which fuel fear and intimidate vulnerable communities, poisoning delicate race relations,» Liberty policy director Isabella Sankey said.

Thatcherism produced winners and losers — which is why memories of the period are so polarised.

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.

This rise may be explained as a result of an increasingly polarised political landscape, which is best expressed in a language conceived for dealing with competition.

Labour remains polarised between a hard left which is essentially Bennite and a hard right which is essentially Blairite.

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 debate, which featured noisy interventions from large sections of the crowd, sparked a particularly polarised reaction to the Ukip leader, who drew pantomime jeers from some when he predicted that the EU was on the way to going into a union with Turkey «composed of 77 million even poorer people» and described Barack Obama as «the most anti-British US president».

The leadership race released polarising impulses within the party, to which the palpable sense of alienation between the parliamentary party and the rank and file has also contributed.

There will be under the Conservatives more child poverty now than in the Thatcher years, creating a Britain more divided, more stratified, more polarised and more segregated, in which the advances made in thirteen years of Labour government are to be reversed in just five years from now to 2020.

Equally, in the event of dissent within the government's ranks, campaign dynamics in which ministers share platforms with opposition figures can polarise internal party cleavages.

For triangulation to be effective, three conditions need to be met: there must be defined positions to the left and right on a topic which opens space in the middle, the public need to be dissatisfied with the polarised positions on offer and to trust the party or politician that is triangulating, to deliver on their centrist commitment.

The seat is also very polarised between the southern stone villa suburbs of Colinton, Currie and Balerno which are traditionally solid areas for the Conservatives, the more urban parts of the seat around Fountainbridge where Labour are resilient and the council estates of Wester Hailes and Sighthill which are solidly SNP.

Which colour is seen at each pixel depends on how the light coming through the pinhole is polarised — that is, whether the waves of light oscillate vertically, horizontally, or some angle in between — and so whether it lines up with the long or short arm.

It uses the quantum properties of photons, which are polarised in two different ways to encode 0s and 1s, to generate and exchange a key.

The same goes for the photon, which is polarised at two angles at once, until it settles into one when measured.

More recently, the BBC has been using antennas which transmit circularly polarised signals, in which the direction of polarisation rotates over time.

An international team of scientists has produced the first high - powered, randomly polarised laser beam with a «Q switch» laser, which typically emits pulses of light so brief that they're measured in nanoseconds.

This finding complements previous research from the University of Edinburgh and the National Institute for Medical Research which showed that embryonic stem cells can be coaxed into this spinal cord cells; however, the Cambridge researchers showed that the in the embryo - like aggregates, the structural organization is more robust and allows for the polarised growth of the tissue.

The polarised blastomere will later envelop its unpolarised sister cell, which will become embryonic tissue.

But one of the things that has always overshaddowed the movie is the mixed reviews of Zack Snyder's Man of Steel, which is very polarising in the Geek Community.

Which is infuriating because it's not even polarising.

The report said staff views were «polarised» about the leadership of the school, while «some female members of staff complained that at times they are spoken to in a manner which they find intimidating».

«We can not have a polarised system in which the best schools monopolise the best teachers, leaving struggling schools to fight over the weakest candidates.

The way it revs — which is rather laboriously — is less polarising, as it makes the car feel lazy when it accelerates.

There's also a new Yellow Night Edition, which is likely to polarise opinion with its yellow decals and embellished alloy wheel rims, although they at least make sure it stands out.

The film will also be aired in private viewings and some cinemas around the world in polarised 3D, which requires special screens.

The polarised discussion about this topic does highlight a cultural intolerance in regards to games and their design, which is very interesting I think.

It seems improbable now that a work of contemporary art — particularly one that was, lest we forget, an impression of something which no longer existed — could inspire such a polarised and universally zealous reaction, but as Whiteread explains, «people are always going to have strong opinions about something that hasn't happened before» and, unlike now, art «was not constantly in your face».

I think the polarised view of influence between «cool people» on the one hand and «random acts of traction» on the other masks the real complexity of influence, which is that it's damned hard to define and identify.

Emin, whose polarising Turner prize installation My Bed, which featured dirty sheets, used condoms and half - empty whisky bottles, sold for # 2.54 m earlier this year, bought the former Tenter Ground weaving works seven years ago.

Lewandowsky's propagandising has to omit any sense of proportion, because admitting that climate change is not just a matter of degree, but matters of degree on matters of degree precludes the possibility of making polarising statements and moralistic claims, which are his intentions.

In the polarised world of climate change, this cocktail has proved an irresistible temptation to organisations which campaign against President Bush's administration in support of enhanced action to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

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..

It is interesting that on this blog, which is discussing the outrangeous, and to most peoples» eyes disgusting, behaviour of some of the most supposedly distinguished climate scientists, there is a toxic, effervescent, didactic, polarising and marginally intelligent group who are showing the same qualities of intolerance and mediocre scientific ability.

This sets up the polarised, binary moral dimension of the debate, with which we are all familiar.

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.

In other words, consensus messaging has a neutralising effect, which is especially important given the highly polarised nature of the public debate about climate change.

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

Well, if that is true, perhaps the people most responsible for that are those who polarised the debate, and made statements about the science which could not be sustained.

Despite rumours that OnePlus would move to a quad HD LCD - based display, the company has decided to continue with its own Optic AMOLED panel which has built in dual polarising panels to reduce the negative impact of bright daylight.

The display also features a dual - polarising layer which OnePlus claims makes the screen more easily visible when outdoors in bright daylight — it works well in practice too, although you might struggle to see the screen if its surface is angled directly towards the sun.