Perhaps the '70s band that had the biggest effect on me, ELO instilled in me a partiality for melody that has never subsided. |
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If you have an extraordinary partiality to language, you spend a disproportionate share of your time looking for the right word. |
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Indeed that and her partiality for gin had played a part in her great popularity. |
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Normal restaurants do not refuse to serve you if you have a partiality for a meat-free meal. |
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It was here in June '99 where they met Tim Youngson and Tyson Kennedy, also longtime friends who shared a mutual partiality for rocking out. |
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If we aimed for equality only to avoid the taint of partiality or discrimination, there would be no case for correcting the result. |
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He must not now besmear that with parochialism, narrow-mindedness and partiality. |
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But is every judgment that the one tradition renders upon the other attributable to prejudice and partiality of vision? |
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The most striking characteristic of this political approach is the author's patent partiality and clear adherence to high Tory principles. |
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The appearance of bias and partiality cast a shadow over the credibility of the articles. |
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The justification of partiality is that these people don't deserve fair treatment. |
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Of course, the Government is utterly indifferent to the problem of apparent bias or apparent partiality in a court. |
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The incarnation is about how God moved from impartiality to partiality, from distant thunderer to compassionate companion. |
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Thus, I would probably end up in Internal Medicine, which I don't have much partiality towards. |
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And the way the law works if there's any appearance of partiality, the judge is obligated to recuse himself, and he did. |
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God shows no partiality to the rich or poor when it comes to obeying his moral directives. |
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Event planners aim to give those varied interests plenty to pique their partiality. |
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Attwood attests that a partiality for the polyphonic music of JS Bach motivated Mozart to supplement his fortepiano with a pedal board. |
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Nothing here is obscured or confused by authorial partiality. |
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For its supporters he has become the symbol of the interim government's partiality. |
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While always treating James with deference, Cecil urged him to curtail his extravagance and also to restrain his partiality for Scots advisers and companions. |
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Landscapist and flower painter, he accentuates his expressionist style by the use of strong, clashing colours, with a partiality for purple. |
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When the world speeds up, as it is doing now, there is always a tendency toward cultural introversion and a partiality for one's basic identity. |
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The author does not allege any partiality or lack of independence on the part of the courts. |
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He distinguished one great group of religions that exhibits extreme partiality for one over against the other. |
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Rose was born in Brooklyn, and admitted to a partiality for the borough, but said that it didn't spring from nostalgia. |
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It turned out the fund manager had a weakness-a clichéd partiality for very tall, long-legged, blue-eyed, blonde women. |
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The artist has a partiality for knife painting, pottery and enamel and as a principal theme, nature. |
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In his extensive recordings he has shown his partiality for Rachmaninoff and Romanticism in general. |
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The first paintings are very geometrical, works a lot with colors with a partiality for green. |
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In this category we find for example factors as corruption, connivance, nepotism, or partiality in sentences. |
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On the other hand, what they leave out can be as revealing as what they allow in, highlighting partiality and unexamined assumptions. |
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The law is applicable to all without partiality and all the judicial, social and cultural systems are based on this principle. |
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I mention all this in order to say that I utterly and completely reject the accusations of partiality that certain people have levelled at me. |
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Judges should, in all circumstances, act impartially, to ensure that there can be no legitimate reason for citizens to suspect any partiality. |
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His stance of impartiality towards any of the positions, yet partiality to decisive progress, has earned the trust of Member States. |
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I first worked in the private sector then branched out into the lawyer profession in 1990 with a partiality for litigation. |
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The fact that we were dealing with professionals, including RNs, physicians, architects, and designers, did not mean that their behaviors were without bias or partiality. |
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The fact that, in the course of a five hour deliberation, Mrs. Smith expressed strong views in favour of a recommendation of dismissal is not indicative of partiality. |
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It may well be that, had this matter been handled differently, the suspicion that the appellants now undoubtedly hold of the judge's partiality would never have arisen. |
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The system, if it be so described, did not exclude the possibility of partiality and prejudice, and the playing field on which pupils competed was not always level. |
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We will draw the conclusions that are required and endure the consequences as the Word of God instructs us, without prejudice and without partiality. |
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Gangs of youths sauntered along, yelling randomly at other pedestrians and dressed in peculiarly dandified clothes contrasting with a partiality for working-man's boots. |
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As critic and editor, Stephens showed a partiality for minor lyricists, like Daley and Quinn, and allowed personal feelings to cloud his judgment on occasions. |
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Indeed, he seemed to have a special partiality for Clara, slipping her a sweet when the grown-ups weren't looking with a mysterious wink out of his lone eye. |
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In those days, I remember developing a partiality for coffee with milk. |
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Scholars showed their partiality for particular writing brushes and gave useful suggestions to brush-makers on how to improve their skills in making them. |
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He heavily favored his own tribe, the Popalzai, to the detriment of other clans who bitterly resented his partiality. |
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Romantic involvement with a news source would create the appearance and probably the reality of partiality. |
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Rationalism, piety, and the German partiality for disciplined conduct were modified by the influence of two crucial works, not intended for children but soon taken over by them. |
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Regarding the alleged partiality of the labour commissioner, the State party considers that the author could have contested this partiality in a variety of ways. |
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Lobo Antunes, who admires Faulkner, shares his partiality for overlapping monologues, which gives the impression that an entire society is incautiously confiding in an analyst or a confessor. |
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According to information obtained by ECRI, the fact that military courts hear cases concerning staff of the Ministry of the Interior creates a risk of partiality. |
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Give her props for self-possession and a partiality for privacy, though achieving the latter has been increasingly problematic because of her family ties. |
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Mr Aquino's allies in Congress have charged Mr Corona with partiality towards the president's predecessor, Gloria Arroyo, whom Mr Aquino intends to prosecute for corruption. |
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Its more impressive beneficiaries – currently the Poet Laureate, Dame Carol Ann Duffy, and Dame Marina Warner – return the compliment, by lending reputational lustre to official partiality and caprice. |
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The fact that the complainant was fundamentally in disagreement with certain decisions and that they had a major impact on his rights and those of the creditor he was representing do not amount to bias and partiality. |
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However, our partiality for invigorating rhythms has remained. |
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Preferential treatment that is arbitrary and not grounded in intelligible human goods, but merely on feelings is what we mean by unfairness or partiality. |
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Increasing scarcity of resources, coupled with perceptions by some groups of partiality in the distribution of humanitarian assistance, could lead to increased tensions and renewed violence. |
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The Committee recommends that DFO should vigorously prosecute, without partiality, all of those who take part in illegal sales of fish caught for food, social and ceremonial purposes. |
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In some instances, partiality is evident in factual reportage. |
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The young Irishman was not a little touched and elated by the highborn damsel's partiality for him. |
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The judge's partiality towards the defendant caused him to be replaced, with someone who was apparently more neutral. |
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Despite the irregularities and appearances of partiality that we have noted, the consultation is nonetheless the mechanism through which the people chose to pronounce themselves. |
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Because of the openness of the land, there is no strongly preferred wind direction in Saskatoon, although there is a slight partiality for winds from the northwest or the southwest. |
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People of Quebec are often victims of such partiality because whatever separatists cannot obtain with truth, they will try to obtain through cheating and deception. |
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It is sad and unforgivable to observe that the United Nations injustice and partiality that began in 1952 over Eritrea continues even to this modern era. |
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The Government is cognizant of the challenges posed by the current complaint mechanisms that could easily lend itself to partiality when the police investigate themselves. |
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These adjustments could be all the more significant as the recent period has been marked by exuberance in the stock and property markets combined with a strong partiality for emerging country risks. |
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No partiality, which makes children upset and demotivates them. |
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