The society was so singular, so unique, so finely skewed between wilderness and civilisation. |
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Maybe you've realized you have two left feet, skewed rhythm and zero coordination. |
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The fitness distribution of the MA lines is leptokurtic and skewed to the left. |
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The Danza Tedesca featured skewed and arhythmical sections delivered with eloquent athleticism. |
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The F series uses a proprietary neodymium-iron magnet rotor structure and skewed armature assembly to optimize machine torque and volume. |
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The physiologic measurements and cytokine concentrations were log-normally distributed, whereas the other microbial variables were highly skewed. |
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What if the balance of conventional military power is so skewed to one side that your enemy reverts to asymmetrical warfare? |
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Attached to the tree's skewed limbs are artificial-looking yellow blossoms, while four baby-blue petals lie on the surrounding brown dirt. |
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Language can be invented, subverted, skewed, and slanted to make it look good, yet say nothing. |
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They would know that their statements are going to be subject to widespread scrutiny, rather than just skewed media scandalmongering. |
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This gives people a false basis of comparison and a skewed view of how balefire really works. |
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You've quoted the mean average, but this is skewed by the small number of fanatics whose 5,000-plus discs line every wall of their homes. |
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As the data were skewed, we have presented medians and interquartile ranges for continuous data. |
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So, as the righteous thunder continues to rumble from American leaders, the issue of weapons inspections is habitually skewed. |
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I'm not a huge advocate of long distance relationships, so my opinions toward them may be a bit skewed. |
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They present a superficially skewed version of biosocial and theological reality. |
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However, if the income variable data were skewed, the median or modal value would be more appropriate. |
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However, for distributions that are highly skewed toward small values, the mode can be very difficult to estimate. |
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In addition, television-station allocation is skewed toward lower frequency channels that offer superior transmission. |
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Even the doctor, whose moral compass has been hopelessly skewed, risks his privileged position and his life to save her. |
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Pryce did well to block his shot with his legs, but the ball skewed sideways for Mercer to crash it into the empty net. |
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Trade has been unfairly skewed in favour of rich nations for decades now, the idea is to start skewing it in the other direction. |
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No-one is suggesting that all science funded by company money is skewed or biased or lacking independence. |
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I mean, the idea that the press is skewed toward him on this is totally ridiculous. |
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Finally, the income tax cuts accompanying the tax package were massively skewed towards upper-income earners. |
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The legal system is skewed towards mothers and, as a result, some women abuse this for their own means, she claims. |
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You can count on us to find the answer, and to convey that information in an insulting, unfair and skewed manner. |
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The poll is skewed toward likely voters, since it is reporting the attitudes of those who have already bothered to register. |
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European understanding of our society, and of their own, is skewed by male-centered cultural biases. |
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As one of our readers noted, that poll used a sample that was obviously skewed toward the Democrats, and thus shouldn't be taken too seriously. |
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People think teachers are against tests but the curriculum is skewed into doing them and it skews the whole of the school year. |
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There are problems with the audience profile, Brown argues, which is skewed towards older males, and the predominance of imported programs. |
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I had a work life and a family life, but I was skewed towards the work life. |
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Additional segregating alleles are not helpful if their frequency distribution is highly skewed. |
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The statistical data show the weight distribution is a highly skewed right distribution. |
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The distributions are skewed, so the medians are better estimates of central tendency than the means are. |
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Andrew's argument about it not being only for the sloggers is slightly skewed. |
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This feeling was compounded when Conway skewed an unmissable free about ten metres west of the posts from the fourteen yard line minutes later. |
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Due to a skewed distribution of the summed scale, the natural logarithm was used in the analysis. |
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As you might expect, the language is a little skewed in favor of capitalist democracy, but not all that much. |
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As the distributions of the outcome measures were frequently skewed, non-parametric statistical tests were used. |
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Writing on film is already trashy enough, already skewed by celebrity suck-up values and movie star hagiolatry. |
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Kim Beazley is right to expose the tax cuts as being skewed to the haves over the have-nots, but he is wrong to make it his battleground. |
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Or has he skewed the party's judgment so much that it can't think straight any more? |
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There isn't a level playing field, so competition between town centre and out-of-town shops is skewed in favour of the latter. |
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The two best known are, of course, Wolsey and More, figures whose profile has been substantially skewed by historiographical spin. |
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Driven by hubris, his judgment skewed by arrogance, he had imagined his power extended over the very forces of nature. |
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However, you will live in a metaphysical world, where reality and illusions will be so skewed that they will appear to be identical. |
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When I learned about cognitive theory it was a challenge to me to think that I did possess skewed attitudes. |
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Another possible reason for the skewed distribution of genet size within patches is intraspecific competition among the genets. |
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In today's uneasy political climate, skewed media representation further shapes and entrenches negative attitudes. |
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In this case, however, it seems to be hard to develop a flat shell form, which rather requires a posteriorly skewed aperture map. |
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For the most part, the original is reconfigured to fit the band's gift for skewed, country and western tinged psychedelia. |
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The crackle-glaze boulder shapes, the crinkum-crankum ledges, the skewed pagoda silhouettes of the mountains belonged to no Occidental geography. |
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It is not the first time that balance of military power has been so skewed. |
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This skewed history is the result of an oral culture being debased and devalued through the past century. |
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I spend time with enough decadents to get used to their somewhat skewed sense of fashion, but this young man looks out of place within himself. |
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The reaction to what was seen as Hodgson's rather skewed perspective contributed to the campaign to have the manager defenestrated. |
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The population is skewed toward the seriously rich, with billionaires, according to the local gossip, having driven out the millionaires. |
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The motor itself has a skewed rotor like those found in inkjet printers which eliminates the detent torque that would coarsen the feel. |
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The last have been favored in histories of world Jewry, and for too long those histories have been skewed by their Eurocentric view. |
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Before reading the column, I held onto the slight chance that my view of this university was arrantly skewed. |
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The balance of trust and the preponderance of suspicion were all skewed in Taunton today. |
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In his fourth feature, he continues to look at life from his own admirably skewed viewpoint. |
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Though the play takes a dig at skewed US values, it is set in a fictional Latin American nation ruled by a military junta. |
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Wall Street has never been a safe place to play, but now your investments could be skewed by rank dishonesty. |
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Viewed labially, the cusp is often skewed to one side or the other but the lateral profile remains stable. |
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The overall phenotype frequency distribution was positively skewed. |
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There were lots of little crabs scuttling around behind the mangroves and on the tidal flats there were wrybill, plump little birds that have beaks skewed to the right. |
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That meant that they were missing out on a million cross-selling opportunities, and that their customer analysis would be skewed through their non-inclusion. |
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The entire movie consists of the pair trying to connect, with Christine's skewed vision of the world getting in the way as much as Richard's remoteness. |
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Walking through the center of town near Dunne Park offers keen observers a hidden funfair of skewed geometry. |
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How this leads to dysfunction, racial tension, and a skewed justice system. |
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Such is the pervasive belief here, so skewed are market risk perceptions, that even the world's leading bond market vigilantes eagerly lead the charge for easy money. |
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Going back over the data sets, he says that the sample set is skewed by the inclusion of an inappropriately large group of anti-infective compounds with poor properties. |
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You can have a first-rate mind, but if the neurology is skewed, the thinking will also be skewed. |
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Medians were also calculated because they are less affected than arithmetic means by the extreme values often encountered in skewed distributions of dietary variables. |
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All reading times were converted to words read per minute, then transformed to base 10 logarithms for the analyses because they were positively skewed. |
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The internalization of dollars as markers for human worth and artistic achievement has insidiously skewed how we view the meaning of culture and creativity. |
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The Gospel writers wrote in the context of the evolving Church and sometimes skewed their portraits to match ecclesial interest rather than historical reality. |
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As we saw in the last presidential election, skewed polls can make people make big mistakes. |
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And so he bears within him the potential to rise above his skewed materialistic values and tap into a true sense of dignity. |
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For a profession whose statistical underpinnings in empirical research are most comfortably based on normal distributions, this skewed distribution begs investigation. |
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Games of chance, whether it is a flutter on the gee-gees, a turn of the card or a spin of the roulette wheel, is a contest that is skewed in favour of the house. |
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Up until now, the Web was skewed toward upper-income, tech-savvy people. |
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The 1964 JFK half dollar is another example of such skewed value. |
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The group studied was an altogether skewed collection of 21,276 Danish couples who had sought help in an infertility clinic. |
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And it is all skewed by the fact that the determination application is cast in terms that the 19th century conveyancer would have been well familiar with. |
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However, it should be noted the sample population was quite small and was skewed toward installation commanders, the executors of current outsourcing policies. |
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If film-makers want to make a truly skewed picture, Feds is thankfully offering us a chance not to have to waste a single cent of our hard-earned money on it. |
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But over the years, one man's cattle raider has become another man's freedom fighter, and the Rob Roy story has been skewed to mesh with the rise of Scottish nationalism. |
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I opened the door and the two of them were either side of a stocky young top-heavy woman who bore an uncanny, slightly skewed resemblance to Samantha. |
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Towards the west end is the main staircase, its bottom flight skewed to the angle of the south wing in response to the diagonal thrust of the approach. |
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They probably have fewer high-tech machines than we do, and the comparative cost figures may be skewed by the American love of elective procedures. |
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The age distribution was moderately skewed, with no outliers. |
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Then again, my perception of modesty has been skewed ever since Katy Perry shot whip cream out of her bra, so who even knows. |
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Turtle-outfitted protestors couldn't compete with Molotov cocktails and gas masks, and the image being created grew more skewed, encouraging more violence. |
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But among pedophiles, this trend is skewed, with sexual, as opposed to nurturing, emotions burgeoning. |
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This is the fundamental madness of what may be the most crazily skewed relationship in the world today. |
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There is something a bit skewed, a bit loopy about Lonergan people who wend their way through life widdershins, and Lonergan talk that is really front-stoop philosophizing. |
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Tenders are invited for Design and Performance of Highly Skewed Deck Girder Bridges. |
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What if the results among worksites are skewed so that a relative handful of poor performers cause the overall average injury rate to double? |
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In the sulfite oxidases, the pyranopterin was always very flat, whereas in the xanthine dehydrogenases, it's skewed. |
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Distributions of values for OC concentrations as well as urinary glucaric acid and porphyrins concentrations were skewed. |
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As anticipated, the cost data were skewed and were normalised by logarithmic transformation. |
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This skewed information leads doctors to prescribe ineffective or dangerous medications to their patients. |
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All RTD curves obtained during the study were skewed to the right with very long tails that resulted in inflated arithmetic mean residence times. |
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The United States led the Internet's growth, which remains skewed towards languages with Latin alphabets, and English in particular. |
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A delightful skewed, story of the conflicts, trade-offs, and joys of sharing one's life one day at a time. |
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The representation of women in parliament has always remained skewed and all major political parties have always indulged in mere tokenism. |
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Children were often underreported, especially female children, as shown by skewed population statistics throughout the Ming. |
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The population tends to be relatively young and heavily skewed gender ratio dominated by males. |
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The skewed distribution of productivity gains is thus less a new phenomenon than a secular trend. |
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A disproportionate number of female subjects in the study group skewed the results. |
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In other words, near-term traders have been more skeptically skewed toward AXP less than a quarter of the time during the past 12 months. |
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Less obvious is the reason for interpreting the skewed age distribution of buyers as a problem. |
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The dominant Republocrat spectrum is sharply skewed to the right. |
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When you have such an enormously influential group peddling misleading information, it's going to lead to skewed regulations and skewed standards for cleanup,'' she said. |
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Epiphysitis, a pathological transformation of cartilage into bone, is a painful, crippling condition caused by a skewed calcium-to-phosphorus ratio. |
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To the best of our knowledge, our study is the first empirical implementation of the skewed t-copula to generate meta-skewed Student's t-distributions. |
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When the tonoscope was used with patients suffering from speech difficulties, the difference between a pure sound and a skewed sound was clearly evident. |
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For far too long, the debate about the refugee crisis has been skewed by poisonous language designed to dehumanise those fleeing the severest forms of persecution. |
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But then, the only fat people I normally see are in our doorstopper of a history textbook, and the picture of my dad, so maybe my impression is skewed. |
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Milla's story is further problematized for the reader because it is skewed by what French feminists have called the discourses of phallogocentrism. |
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The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy. |
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For example, it's possible to build up a nonrepeating pattern in three dimensions simply by using two types of rhombohedrons, which resemble skewed cubes. |
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First, generally equity returns do not follow a Gaussian distribution and their third and fourth moments confirm skewed and leptokurtic distributions. |
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