The one thing they wanted me to figure out was what was the common denominator with all my readers. |
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We face today a rising inclination for public policy makers to pander to the lowest common denominator. |
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It was aimed at the lowest common denominator, with almost slap-stick, stereotyped prose. |
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So they flood their publications or channels with what would appeal to the lowest common denominator among their target consumers. |
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This movie locates the lowest common denominator in the average audience then aims far, far below them. |
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We define the least common denominator of two fractions as the least common multiples of the denominators. |
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The least common denominator for two fractions is the least common multiple of their denominators. |
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A very moderate pacifism was, in fact, the common denominator of the demonstrators and the varied organisations. |
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Its concerns are massively wider than the lowest common denominator of xenophobic prejudice to which the Sun consistently plays. |
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Sometimes when working with fractions, the hardest thing to find is a common denominator. |
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That's right, it's also the conceptual common denominator to this amusement-park ride through fast-forward, funkadelic foolishness. |
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In particular Zhang sees the reduction of fractions to a common denominator as hard. |
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It's all about sound bites, deluding the people, pandering to the lowest common denominator. |
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We've become sedentary, convenience foods fill our kitchens, and stress is a common denominator. |
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And they make no attempt to reconcile that conflict, tailoring their local appeal to the lowest common denominator in each area. |
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On Desormais, the common denominator is sparse fingerpicking with little other accompaniment. |
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The only common denominator between its members is that they are the most industrially developed countries in the world. |
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Appealing to the lowest common denominator is best done through basic instincts. |
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Skin protection is the common denominator linking the management of tubes, drains, fistulae, and draining wounds. |
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The Labour government is afraid of the Daily Mail leader writers and pander to the lowest common denominator. |
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All around us brands are compromising their values in an effort to communicate to the lowest common denominator. |
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Furthermore, I don't believe in making work for the lowest common denominator. |
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It's anonymously directed, mechanical and unsurprising and is aimed at the indiscriminate lowest common denominator. |
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Yet instead of bringing the country up to the standards, they slide down to the lowest common denominator. |
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I don't know how to do the least common multiple and the least common denominator. |
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By appealing to the lowest common denominator and older technologies, denominations and many churches alienate more sophisticated users. |
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The common denominator in all these body-shaming stories is that they're all about women. |
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Hate is manifested in a whole range of insults in football and nobody is spared in an arena where the lowest common denominator rules the roost. |
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Broadband connectivity to the home should not be the common denominator in delivering telehealth. |
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Therefore, what is usually done has a tendency to cater to the lowest common denominator in the audience. |
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Little did you know, each of those three experiences shares a common denominator. |
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Mass popular entertainment aiming for the lowest common denominator and utterly similar on all channels is now our lot. |
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Groups, instead of falling to their lowest common denominator, can often rise to the level of their best member and beyond. |
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In addition, EU legislation provides for the protection of the principle of equality at the level of the lowest common denominator. |
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Be it for him or for others, Romain Didier writes charming, poetic and wayfaring songs whose common denominator is humanism. |
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What we are seeing right now is a template that tends to lead to the lowest common denominator, which is the race to the bottom over time. |
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The European Court's formulation of fundamental rights need not necessarily seek the lowest common denominator or minimum standard. |
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More than ever, they are preoccupied with pragmatic matters, such as the lowest common denominator in the political math problem known as the electoral college. |
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It is not incumbent on the airlines to be the least common denominator here. |
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In our view, a realistic assessment would point us in the direction of an incremental approach starting from the least common denominator. |
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They reflect the least common denominator of practices in the industry at present. |
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With so many actors, he warns, there is a danger of succumbing to a least common denominator management approach. |
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However, generality does not mean that they are watered down to some least common denominator. |
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Netwib's features correspond to least common denominator of functions available on systems. |
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He foresaw the tyranny of market testing, which homogenizes everything from movies to food, opting every time for the lowest common denominator. |
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The lot of processes of this nature is to produce texts which necessarily boil down to the lowest common denominator. |
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The need to increase the awareness of decision-makers has also been identified as a crucial point to create a common denominator. |
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Nice was thus a clear demonstration of what is meant by agreement on the lowest common denominator. |
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We cannot accept a system of free trade that would be based on the lowest common denominator. |
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So what is the lowest common denominator likely to assemble and generate discussion and exchange? |
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Other issues included accuracy of data, using the lowest common denominator when sharing data from multiple jurisdictions. |
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These rules cater to a diverse range of aircraft and often reflect the lowest common denominator for the applicable category. |
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The approach I am recommending does not amount to abandoning ambition or endorsing the lowest common denominator as the highest form of wisdom. |
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In spite of all their differences, cultures share, and always will, the common denominator of humanity. |
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Their common denominator is the rejection of what is different, the rejection of the other and the systematic negation of otherness. |
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In the work of Gilbert Durand, the symbols of numerous cultures are interrelated and reduced to the smallest common denominator. |
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Survey after survey of young offenders revealed a common denominator of family problems and parental neglect. |
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This would be the best way for us to find the common denominator that we are all seeking. |
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The best way to live in peace, with mutual love and respect, is to recognize our common denominator. |
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By the same token, it can be noted that the Italian language appears to be the common denominator of the two schemes. |
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We are convinced that we should continue to seek a common denominator on the basis of collective efforts. |
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What will sexual liberation look like at the bottom-feeding, lowest common denominator? |
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In order to add these fractions, we need to find the common denominator. |
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Simply put, the common denominator among perpetrators of mass shootings is not mental disorder, but being a young male. |
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Young men with mental illness are a common denominator but so, inescapably, are guns. |
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That common denominator gets lost in the muddle, sometimes, when we talk about fashion. |
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One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them. |
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Harmonization is a trade term of art that often indicates that strong regulations and protections are going to be taken down to the lowest common denominator. |
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Either way, the one-handed rod was the common denominator for chunking topwater plugs, spinnerbaits and subsurface lures amid the sloughs and backwaters. |
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We kind of reduce things to the lowest common denominator, in some ways for good and in some ways not for good. |
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But the vast history of journalism has been about bias and yellow journalism and selling out to the lowest common denominator. |
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But the incident made me realize how easy it is to fall prey to the lowest common denominator today. |
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So, the sloganeers have found common cause with the nervous backbench nobodies and the jilted ex-Ministers in the pursuit of lowest common denominator personality politics. |
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Calderwood, to his credit, admires quick and classy defenders as opposed to the kind of cloggers who reduce football to its lowest common denominator. |
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Now we must change each fraction into the terms of the common denominator. |
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This leads me to restate that to adopt the lowest common denominator approach in order to reach a consensus would be a serious mistake, with grave consequences for our Organization. |
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The common denominator in racism and ethnicism is the consciousness of the distinction and tension between us and them. |
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That said, the similarities between decoys end with that common denominator. |
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Will black-lace-trimmed purple panties play in Peoria? Why not? Cool is the common denominator of teens everywhere. |
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Your Website should be accessible to the lowest common denominator in Web browsing. |
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Despite high-sounding principles, adherence to the bottom line of profits without principles has, so far, ensured that standards of disclosure and transparency in Angola remain those of the lowest common denominator. |
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It is vital that we do not waste this unique opportunity for significant reform of the United Nations and, at all costs, avoid squandering this chance in petty point-scoring or negotiations to the lowest common denominator. |
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That's certainly the lowest common denominator. |
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It is strategy by least common denominator. |
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The physical environment of the St. Lawrence is undoubtedly the common denominator for all of the projects undertaken by the water level subcommittee. |
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The greatest threat to CDM emerges when participants do not engage, or settle for the lowest common denominator rather then exerting their talents to achieve the highest common factor. |
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It's up to the detectives to locate the common denominator between these strangers, before someone is shot again. |
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We do not want an outcome that is determined by the lowest common denominator, but rather a result that reflects the urgency and the gravity of the problems that we want to address. |
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In other words, in the Covenant political rights represent a lowest common denominator intended to allow adherence by the largest possible number of States, even undemocratic ones. |
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Rather than merely trying to find the lowest common denominator, Committee chairpersons should aim at making the Council more effective in discharging its larger responsibilities. |
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But, as I have said in another debate this week, the danger is that we develop a kind of general casualness, we have moved to the lowest common denominator, not the highest common factor. |
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It's difficult to convert into some common denominator. |
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Instead of looking for a common denominator, the rapporteur based his report on the Italian agricultural model, something which positively underwhelms the other Member States and this Parliament. |
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Bad Neighbours 97mins LAUGHS of the lowest common denominator abound in this bawdy but brilliant frat boy versus the neighbours comedy. |
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Aiming instead at harmonised minimum standards will easily lead to a situation where we leap over the lowest hurdle and end up with the lowest common denominator, which will water down all the aims of competition policy. |
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Despite several bilateral and multilateral meetings, the four have not yet come up with the lowest common denominator likely to get the ball rolling. |
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Do not go with the lowest common denominator. |
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The genericism which reduces religious life to a colourless lowest common denominator leads to wiping out the beauty and fruitfulness of the many and various charisms inspired by the Holy Spirit. |
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Taking the group of people as prime, the shared goal that they all work towards may end up being a very weak goal that is the least common denominator of the people's goals. |
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The purpose is therefore not to identify the least common denominator among the schemes in place, but rather to identify how further progress could be made. |
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Without detailed knowledge and the means to implement quick changes, companies settled for the market price, the least common denominator for a group of buyers. |
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It pleased everyone as the least common denominator. |
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When we talk about the verb, as we do in linguistics, we are attributing a name to several syntagmatic functions grouped under this common denominator. |
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Reality TV really is appealing to the lowest common denominator in audiences. |
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In all the places I've visited, health care is a common denominator. |
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While thankful for the efforts from the German presidency to progress on the dossier which requires unanimous support to be adopted, the EDPS expresses grave concern about a dilution towards the lowest common denominator. |
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We are against pushing everyone's welfare down to the lowest common denominator rather than protecting the pension plans that work and improving retirement security for all. |
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In this and other policy areas, the degree of harmonisation is at risk of being reduced to the lowest common denominator at the expense of the value added by common action at European level. |
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The conclusion of a weak treaty would legitimize an international standard based on a lowest common denominator, and doing so would not address the problem of illicit and irresponsible arms transfers. |
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We designed to the lowest common denominator. |
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Manafort works the lowest common denominator. |
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Given that sad reality, and as a bitter epilogue to the hostilities, there is the common denominator of serious violations of international humanitarian law. |
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The common denominator in all these pathways is that they are all preventable and that they are all conducted by uninformed members of the public. |
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Different media, such as offset printing inks, opaque and translucent sign materials, plastic and paint have no real common denominator when it comes to specifying exact colors. |
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The lowest common denominator strikes back! |
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When the PKK terrorism started to escalate in 1984, the official state propaganda gave greater emphasis to Nevruz as a common denominator. |
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But the second and more fundamental common denominator is an absence of internal oversight. |
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A few are reducible to a kind of Urban Outfitters common denominator or a rainy-day project dreamed up by bored reality-TV housemates. |
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This said, one common denominator is that the world as a whole is in need of redemption. |
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In a world without frontiers and without any time barriers, information flows must be guaranteed and in order for this to be possible a minimum common denominator is required. |
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Our common denominator is to do everything possible so that our authorities can have a better knowledge of our activities and help us much more in realizing our 12 rights. |
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In saying that, we are well aware that the military mechanisms and structures of both Russia and NATO were forged by historical imperatives and cannot be immediately reduced to a single common denominator. |
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The fear was that giving buyers more information about what prices others are paying will drive market levels to the lowest common denominator. |
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In the next two to three years we will work together resolutely to bring our different regional images to a common denominator and work out the core values for which we stand. |
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Because, despite their surface unrelatedness, the interactions described in reports from around the world tie into one important common denominator, their zoonotic potential. |
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That kind of stuff doesn't just pander to the lowest common denominator, it gives a legitimacy to lamebrains on either side of this country's divide. |
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As long as quality differences can be compared cardinally across papers, allowing the creation of a common denominator, the results of this model will be fully general. |
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