Giving an advantage to the sons and daughters of alumni is one such practice.
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The system is not usually perceived as giving an advantage to any particular party.
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Hearings weren't publicized, or even required, giving an advantage to the well-organized group.
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Was the course, designed by Pierre Michelet, end-weighted in difficulty, giving an advantage to the stronger men?
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Patients could manage their health via their smartphones, giving an advantage to the tech whizzes who design the products.
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It certainly can be hard to run a competitive manufacturing business when U.S. policies are giving an advantage to foreign companies.
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This may be read as a way of giving an advantage to coal, though that seems less likely as storage of renewables increases.
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If the countries agree in negotiations, that percentage could be increased, potentially giving an advantage to U.S. industry at the expense of Asian competitors.
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The U.S. semiconductor industry has argued the export ban is hurting U.S. companies by giving an advantage to foreign competitors in South Korea and Taiwan.
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Some politicians have said the central bank is hurting working first-time buyers and giving an advantage to richer families by placing limits on mortgage lending.
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And the administration is perpetually arguing that repealing it shows they're not giving an advantage to the rich, because they benefit disproportionately from the deductions. Rep.
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With good reason: When a central bank eases monetary policy, the price of its currency tends to decline relative to others, encouraging inflation and giving an advantage to domestic exporters.
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Now, trade experts and grain analysts warn the suspension of the reports is clouding the marketplace and potentially giving an advantage to big grain companies directly involved in the export trade.
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The additional tax is likely to reduce palm oil's discount to competing vegetable oils, giving an advantage to soybean oil shipments from the United States and Argentina, a Malaysian analyst said.
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IHS argues that such rules could harm fossil-fuel companies by putting off lenders and giving an advantage to state-owned rivals that would not face the same pressures from investors.
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Clinton's campaign is worried that some polls show voters under the age of 30 might not turn out in great numbers at polling stations in November, potentially giving an advantage to Trump.
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For instance, one of the incentives being discussed to get people to use the currency is discounts on Uber rides; if this happens, Facebook would be giving an advantage to Uber instead of other ride-sharing businesses.
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He homes in on the proposed ban on zero-rating, which is the practice of offering free data for some applications but not others, potentially giving an advantage to big companies that can pay to cut deals with internet providers.
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Candidates will need to raise and spend millions of dollars on advertising to bring their messages across the country, giving an advantage to candidates with broad small-dollar donor bases like Sanders and Warren as well as self-funded billionaires like Bloomberg.
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The scandal has sparked an intensified discussion about how wealth and whiteness may be giving an advantage to a limited group of prospective students at the nation's top schools, as well as calling attention to the recent judicial roadblocks faced by race-based affirmative action.
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Billionaire and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who may run as a Democrat for president in 2020 and in the past has considered an independent bid, appeared to warn his fellow billionaire that an independent run would split the ticket, giving an advantage to Trump.
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The game begins with one player placing a stone on the board. To avoid giving an advantage to the first player, a pie rule is used, allowing the second player to switch sides at that point. Players then alternate turns, placing a stone on an empty hexagon on the board. Players may pass; the game is over when both players pass.
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As they entered the province of Genoa, the riders climbed the Passo del Turchino, a long and gentle climb with no significant difficulty. The descent, however, was twisting, giving an advantage to the riders who were towards the front of the peloton. The next were again generally flat. This part of the course, in the province of Savona, took the riders along the Mediterranean coast.
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Adjournments are common in long matches of the game of Go. Major Japanese title matches like the Honinbo, Kisei and Meijin commonly have thinking time of over eight hours per player. Such matches are played over two days and use a sealed move during the adjournment. As in chess, a sealed move may have a forced response, giving an advantage to the sealing player. Sealing a move that has no purpose other than to force a particular answer from one's opponent is considered poor etiquette.
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Freemium games have come under criticism from players and critics. Many are labelled with the derogatory term 'pay-to-win', which criticizes freemium games for giving an advantage to players who pay more money, as opposed to those who have more skill. Criticisms also extend to the way that the business model can often appear unregulated, to the point of encouraging prolific spending. An example of this is Smurfs' Village, which was released by Capcom as a free game tied in with the release of the 2011 film.
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"Who would have ever thought in the age of media that we have in this country today that ordinary folks can defy the odds day in and day out?" Santorum supporters began pushing Gingrich to drop out of the race, saying he was taking votes away from Santorum and thus giving an advantage to Romney. Santorum finished second in Illinois on March 20, 2012 with 35% to Romney's 47%.Illinois Results Santorum won the largely middle class and rural parts of the state, while Romney won the cities and wealthy areas.
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Gray did disagree with the addition of more complex firing tables that broke down weapons into breechloaders, rifled muskets, etc. As Gray pointed out, historically "though the warring parties used a variety of weapons [...] it was the same general mixture on both sides [giving] an advantage to nobody." Despite this, Gray concluded that the second edition of Fire and Fury was "a top notch game in every respect and mandates a place on every [American Civil War] gamer's shelf [...] Overall I predict strong success." Fire and Fury was chosen for inclusion in the 2007 book Hobby Games: The 100 Best.
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On 6 December 1795, Perçante departed La Rochelle, under orders from the Minister of Marine and Colonies not to communicate with any vessel on the way. In late February 1796, Perçante was sailing from Cayenne to Cap Français when, near Samana Bay, around 21:00, she encountered the 64-gun third rate , patrolling and looking for reinforcements expected from Cork. Intrepid gave chase, and the two ships exchanged fire from 23:00 until 04:00 the next morning, when the wind strengthened, giving an advantage to Perçante. However, Perçante soon sighted two British corvettes to the north and a frigate in the south; Tourtelot then ordered Perçante beached in a cove to the east of Porto Plata.
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However, "dioecy has proven difficult to explain simply as an outbreeding mechanism in plants that lack self-incompatibility". Resource-allocation constraints may be important in the evolution of dioecy, for example, with wind-pollination, separate male flowers arranged in a catkin that vibrates in the wind may provide better pollen dispersal. In climbing plants, rapid upward growth may be essential, and resource allocation to fruit production may be incompatible with rapid growth, thus giving an advantage to delayed production of female flowers. Dioecy has evolved separately in many different lineages, and monoecy in the plant lineage correlates with the evolution of dioecy, suggesting that dioecy can evolve more readily from plants that already produce separate male and female flowers.
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Many of the popular early social network games would combine capabilities. For instance, one of the early games to reach the top application spot, (Lil) Green Patch, combined virtual Gifts with Event notifications to friends and contributions to charities through Causes. Third party companies provide application metrics, and several blogs arose in response to the clamor for Facebook applications. On July 4, 2007, Altura Ventures announced the "Altura 1 Facebook Investment Fund," becoming the world's first Facebook-only venture capital firm. On August 29, 2007, Facebook changed the way in which the popularity of applications is measured, to give attention to the more engaging applications, following criticism that ranking applications only by the number of people who had installed the application was giving an advantage to the highly viral, yet useless applications.
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In the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket on 1 October the colt started at odds of 12/1 and led for most of the way before being overtake in the closing stages and beaten a length into second by the French-trained Zieten. The Racecall Gold Trophy, a handicap race run over six furlongs at Redcar Racecourse on 27 October was one of the most valuable juvenile races in Europe and attracted a field of twenty-four runners. Unlike a conventional handicap, the weights were determined by the prices fetched by the offspring of the runners sires at auction, giving an advantage to the progeny of cheap or unfashionable stallions. The race was run in exceptionally testing conditions on very heavy ground on a cold, wet day.
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Alfred W Arthurton, The Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway, in the Railway Magazine, March 1914 A rival scheme, which was to become the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway, was promoted, running independently from Treherbert, through a long tunnel to the valley of the River Afan, and then following the valley down to Pontrhydyfen. From there it was to cross to Baglan Bay at Briton Ferry, then following the coast and crossing the River Neath near the sea by a tidal bridge. From Treherbert the line would descend almost all the way, giving an advantage to the loaded trains descending, although much of the colliery output in the Rhondda Valley would have to be hauled uphill to Treherbert to join the line there. The Bills went to the Parliamentary session of 1882 and the R&SBR; scheme found preference, but there was stiff opposition from interests in Neath.
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All of the local polling firms had predicted a close election here, some even giving an advantage to native Michigander Romney over Obama; however, statistician Nate Silver pointed out several problems with the local pollsters' methodology and sampling errors, instead giving more credence to the national pollsters who posited a clear victory for Obama (by a mean of 7.3 points and a median of 7.0 over Romney). In the end, Silver and the National pollsters were correct: Obama defeated Romney by over 9 points in the November 2012 election. Obama dominated the population centers that had traditionally anchored Democratic strength in the state--Detroit, Lansing, Ann Arbor, and Flint--but he also retained two populous counties that had been Republican strongholds in the 1970s and 1980s, the Detroit-area suburban counties of Oakland and Macomb. Even in Kent County, which flipped back to the Republican column, Romney substantially underperformed what Bush had done in 2000 and 2004.
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