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  • I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, a jury who brought many presumptions and biases to the trial of Marsha Colbey was selected to decide her fate.†   (source)
  • I told him not to worry, we'll back him up by picking a jury that's not biased against homosexuals."†   (source)
  • But these exact same biases also show up in areas of much more consequence, like education.†   (source)
  • I've stopped looking at all the discussions and arguments from my family's biased point of view.†   (source)
  • It's possible that my view of her is biased.†   (source)
  • You might be a little biased.†   (source)
  • A 1998 study of these teaching materials by the Consumers Union found that 80 percent were biased, providing students with incomplete or slanted information that favored the sponsor's products and views.†   (source)
  • But you may think me merely biased if I say that my own father could in many ways be considered to rank with such men, and that his career is the one I have always scrutinized for a definition of 'dignity'.†   (source)
  • What about your biases?†   (source)
  • The humanism of the Renaissance brought a new belief in man and his worth, in striking contrast to the biased medieval emphasis on the sinful nature of man.†   (source)
  • Southern white illiterates brought their biases intact to the West from the hills of Arkansas and the swamps of Georgia.†   (source)
  • 'We're all biased.†   (source)
  • He could not help but be infected by the same biases.†   (source)
  • Of course, Kile was the hometown pick, so maybe the crowd was biased.†   (source)
  • But I like it…… " "Are you saying I'm biased?"†   (source)
  • "The evidence, in most cases, suffers from obvious biases: educated girls come from richer families and marry richer, more educated, more progressive husbands," notes Esther Duflo of MIT, one of the most careful scholars of gender and development.†   (source)
  • Graetz was biased, and his sources were not accurate.†   (source)
  • "You mean to say," she said, looking at Jen Shinnan but also directing her words to Lieutenant Awn, "that you think the testing is biased."†   (source)
  • Leavitt had pointed out that all men, no matter how scientifically objective, had several built-in biases when discussing life.†   (source)
  • He knew how essential it was to the future effectiveness of the army to break down regional differences and biases among the troops.†   (source)
  • Forgive me if I think your opinion is biased.†   (source)
  • They were obviously biased in my favor and were two of my biggest advocates.†   (source)
  • I will not jeopardize the integrity of legal process or the future of my career on a ruling that will be exposed as careless or biased and overturned by a higher court.†   (source)
  • The civilians were unhappy that their test, for which they had positioned all kinds of meters and cones to measure and absorb the sound, would be biased by the forest of bayonets that shot upward from the seats.†   (source)
  • My sample is biased toward genuine fighting soldiers.†   (source)
  • Biased Opposition to Taxation†   (source)
  • Media can be—and is—biased, or it slants a story to suit its own ends.†   (source)
  • BRADY It grieves me to read reporting that is so—biased.†   (source)
  • Instinctively, I think, most of us would probably assume that the causation runs in the opposite direction, that Reagan supporters are drawn to ABC because of Jennings's bias, not the other way around.   (source)
    bias = a personal preference -- especially a prejudice that prevents objective consideration
  • On the contrary, the knowing that there was such a provision for me probably did bias me.   (source)
    bias = influence to think in a particular way
  • I was afraid of her not estimating your worth to her brother quite as it deserved, and of her regretting that he had not rather fixed on some woman of distinction or fortune. I was afraid of the bias of those worldly maxims, which she has been too much used to hear.   (source)
    bias = tendency to think in a particular way
  • He had suspected his agent of some underhand dealing; of meaning to bias him against the deserving; and he had determined to go himself, and thoroughly investigate the merits of the case.   (source)
    bias = influence to think in a particular way
  • Which you suppose has biassed me?   (source)
    biassed = made unobjective (caused an opinion to go in one direction rather than permitting fair consideration)
  • I see no reason why a man should make a worse clergyman for knowing that he will have a competence early in life. ... I hope I should not have been influenced myself in a wrong way, and I am sure my father was too conscientious to have allowed it. I have no doubt that I was biased, but I think it was blamelessly.   (source)
    biased = influenced to think in a particular way
  • "I kind of liked her, but I guess I'm biased."†   (source)
  • You lousy, biased scum-bag, you gave Krum ten!†   (source)
  • I know he's biased, but it felt good to help the team and get us to the next game.†   (source)
  • What he knows about me is in my school file, a file so biased it's probably ten inches thick.†   (source)
  • Since the authors lived in monarchies, they are biased.†   (source)
  • He regaled me with stories about two of his latest pet subjects—the "corrupt" Spencer Lawton and the "biased and stupid" Judge Oliver.†   (source)
  • It would discuss the incompetence of the cops (it was a biased case, full of dead ends and wrong turns, with the police department focused doggedly on the wrong man).†   (source)
  • Maybe I was biased, but I don't care.†   (source)
  • I refrained from explaining that I was too busy working on the case of an innocent black man the community was trying to execute after a racially biased prosecution.†   (source)
  • I can stand c across from the everyday Anne and, without being biased or making excuses, watch what she's doing, both the good and the bad.†   (source)
  • Or A Highly Biased and Selective History of Hogwarts, Which Glosses Over the Nastier Aspects of the School.†   (source)
  • We sought review in the Alabama Supreme Court and won a new trial based on the trial judge's refusal to exclude people from jury service who were biased and could not be impartial.†   (source)
  • They weren't partial or biased, just very persuasive in detailing how organic brain damage, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder can conspire to create severe mental impairment.†   (source)
  • Biased, am I?†   (source)
  • Porcupine's Gazette was the work of an English printer and bookseller, William Cobbett, who wrote under the pen name "Peter Porcupine" and immediately demonstrated that he could be as biased, sarcastic, and full of invective as Bache, and attract no less attention.†   (source)
  • Ben was just about the easiest kid to get along with, and she wasn't saying that because she was biased.†   (source)
  • Or just …. biased.†   (source)
  • He's more biased than anyone else!†   (source)
  • You are very biased, you know.†   (source)
  • In fact, she was the best judge Peter could have drawn for his case-the alternative superior court justice was Judge Wagner, who was a very old, prosecution-biased judge.†   (source)
  • My approach was not ideological, but it was biased in favor of socialism, which I saw as the most advanced stage of economic life then evolved by man.†   (source)
  • It made them even more biased.†   (source)
  • This happens even when you give people a clear and immediate environmental explanation of the behavior they are being asked to evaluate: that the gym, in the first case, has few lights on; that the Contestant is being asked to answer the most impossibly biased and rigged set of questions.†   (source)
  • This sample of soldiers is, of course, biased toward the groups most likely to write letters or diaries and to save them for posterity to read.†   (source)
  • "Maybe you're biased too," she says.†   (source)
  • Well, okay, she admitted, maybe she was a little biased, but as a teacher, she'd spent time with lots of different kids and she knew what she was talking about.†   (source)
  • Therefore, the person who wants the Constitution might be biased because of these considerations, as well as from sinister motives.†   (source)
  • In that respect, as in those of wealth, slaveholding, occupation, and education, the sample is biased toward those who had the largest stake in the Confederacy and were therefore most prone to have strong ideological convictions.†   (source)
  • Political Passions —> Biased Opinions†   (source)
  • One is that judges, who are interpreters of the law, might be improperly biased because they have a previous opinion.†   (source)
  • Thus, the majority of the Senate would not be more biased towards the appointee than appearances of merit might inspire and the lack of proof will destroy.†   (source)
  • I forgot about how your biases cloud your judgment.†   (source)
  • It would be simpler for my mother to portray her success as a straightforward triumph over victimhood, just as it would be simpler to look at Joe Flom and call him the greatest lawyer ever, even though his individual achievements are so impossibly intertwined with his ethnicity, his generation, the particulars of the garment industry, and the peculiar biases of the downtown law firms.†   (source)
  • My biases.†   (source)
  • I began thinking about what would happen if we all just acknowledged our brokenness, if we owned up to our weaknesses, our deficits, our biases, our fears.†   (source)
  • Social Control, and Biases in Social-Perception Process," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (1977). vol. 3$, no. 7, pp. 485-494, Page 161.†   (source)
  • The kinds of biases we're talking about here aren't so obvious that it's easy to identify a solution.†   (source)
  • Dollard says, for instance, that one of the biases in a sip test is toward sweetness: "If you only test in a sip test, consumers will like the sweeter product.†   (source)
  • When people watch the news, they don't intentionally filter biases out, or feel they have to argue against the expression of the newscaster," Mullen explains.†   (source)
  • You will pardon my slightly biased point of view.†   (source)
  • Isn't that because you're rather biased on that subject, Poirot?†   (source)
  • He realised that M. Bouc was biased in the matter.†   (source)
  • Words like PHENOMENON, ELEMENT, INDIVIDUAL (as noun), OBJECTIVE, CATEGORICAL, EFFECTIVE, VIRTUAL, BASIS, PRIMARY, PROMOTE, CONSTITUTE, EXHIBIT, EXPLOIT, UTILIZE, ELIMINATE, LIQUIDATE, are used to dress up simple statements and give an air of scientific impartiality to biased judgments.†   (source)
  • The fire was red, it flaming spread; The trees like torches biased with light, The bells were ringing in the dale And men looked up with faces pale; The dragon's ire more fierce than fire Laid low their towers and houses frail.†   (source)
  • Lancelot, perhaps slightly biased by having first met her with no clothes on, thought that Elaine was the most beautiful girl he had seen, except Guenever.†   (source)
  • A madman is as logical and reasoned in his action as a sane man-given his peculiar biased point of view.†   (source)
  • He no longer stares down the illness with a hostile eye; he is a biased and hardly unequivocal foe.†   (source)
  • "You see, he is silent," the totally biased judge notes for the second time.†   (source)
  • And I venture to say that if by some magic of the spoken word I could at this moment strip from your eye the substance of all the cruel thoughts and emotions which have been attributed to him by a clamorous and mistaken and I might say (if I had not been warned not to do so), politically biased prosecution, you could no more see him in the light that you do than you could rise out of that box and fly through those windows.†   (source)
  • Fairness and justice and mercy, that she had imagined were anchor-cables to hold fast her soul to righteousness had not been hers in the strange, biased duty that had so exalted and confounded her.†   (source)
  • They were not worldly young fellows, but fraternizing with dairy-folk would have struck unpleasantly upon their biased niceness, apart from their views of the match.†   (source)
  • The mass of the people may be led astray by ignorance or passion; the mind of a king may be biased, and his perseverance in his designs may be shaken—besides which a king is not immortal—but an aristocratic body is too numerous to be led astray by the blandishments of intrigue, and yet not numerous enough to yield readily to the intoxicating influence of unreflecting passion: it has the energy of a firm and enlightened individual, added to the power which it derives from perpetuity.†   (source)
  • In fact, one may say pretty certainly that the masculine, as distinguished from the feminine, part of the audience were biased against the prisoner.†   (source)
  • I should like to conclude the chapter with the above appeal, but cannot, owing to my anxiety to repel a charge often made against whalemen, and which, in the estimation of some already biased minds, might be considered as indirectly substantiated by what has been said of the Frenchman's two whales.†   (source)
  • If you could be supposed to be biased in any respect by your own feelings, your opinion would not be worth having.†   (source)
  • It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire; how little it is biased by the texture of their muslin, and how unsusceptible of peculiar tenderness towards the spotted, the sprigged, the mull, or the jackonet.†   (source)
  • Local aid is always either worthless or else biassed.†   (source)
  • Her power was limited, and the consciousness of this limitation had biassed her development.†   (source)
  • It's biassed."†   (source)
  • He had all the Henty biasses in history, and was particularly fond of the cheerful murder stories of Mary Roberts Rinehart.†   (source)
  • He was rather sceptical about being an Irish patriot—he suspected that being Irish was being somewhat common—but Monsignor assured him that Ireland was a romantic lost cause and Irish people quite charming, and that it should, by all means, be one of his principal biasses.†   (source)
  • Each had his beauty and honor, he thought, trying all the harder to be fair because he knew his own personal or partly personal biases.†   (source)
  • Analysis is good as a tool of enlightenment and civilization—to the extent that it shakes stupid preconceptions, quashes natural biases, and undermines authority.†   (source)
  • The major was a broad-shouldered man with a low brow and bristling moustache—a hulk, who quite obviously was innocent of his daughter's susceptibilities and organic biases.†   (source)
  • It was solely because he shared the all too charitable biases of his age, he said, that the great Dante had taken that mediocre scribbler seriously and had assigned him such an important role in his own epic, a role to which Herr Lodovico probably assigned far too much Masonic significance.†   (source)
  • At the moment, however, their current discussion consumed his total attention, because Naphta now went on to discuss in caustic fashion the general biases that induced humanists to honor health on principle and dishonor and belittle sickness whenever possible—a position, however, that revealed a remarkable and almost praiseworthy self-abnegation on Herr Settembrini's part, since he was himself ill.†   (source)
  • In holding this conviction Mr. Stelling was not biassed, as some tutors have been, by the excessive accuracy or extent of his own scholarship; and as to his views about Euclid, no opinion could have been freer from personal partiality.†   (source)
  • ...under conditions of perfect objectivity, and in that unbiased moment, he had said...   (source)
    unbiased = unprejudiced
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbiased means not and reverses the meaning of biased. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • "Jordan, if you can't commentate in an unbiased way —"†   (source)
  • "I've got unbiased third-party medical authorities, Randy," she said.†   (source)
  • Unbiased science could not possibly be performed by a man who possessed faith in God.†   (source)
  • With the Internet, Facebook, YouTube, there's no such thing as an unbiased jury anymore.†   (source)
  • I glanced up and down his mammoth frame, trying to be unbiased.†   (source)
  • His words had been thoughtful, unbiased, not at all what I expected.†   (source)
  • You're an unbiased view," Dexter explained.†   (source)
  • All unbiased men must realize that the system is radically vicious and unsound.†   (source)
  • The courts of neither State could be expected to be unbiased.†   (source)
  • Because of their brief existence and detached situation, they should be unbiased.†   (source)
  • However, they are so obvious—such common sense they challenge a sound and unbiased mind to agree.†   (source)
  • Mr. Langdon, it is true that Vatican rule dictates the camerlegno assume chief executive office during conclave, but it is only because his lack of eligibility for the papacy ensures an unbiased election.†   (source)
  • Someone unbiased.†   (source)
  • Nor am I an unbiased observer.†   (source)
  • Harry knew that many of them preferred Professor Grubbly-Plank's lessons, and the worst of it was that a very small, unbiased part of him knew that they had good reason: Grubbly-Plank's idea of an interesting class was not one where there was a risk that somebody might have their head ripped off.†   (source)
  • According to Hickock, the "hostile atmosphere" in Garden City had made it impossible to empanel an unbiased jury, and therefore a change of venue should have been granted.†   (source)
  • That's not unbiased!†   (source)
  • So much for thoughtful and unbiased; Judge Haig's spirituality, apparently, was the kind that made itself present only when the right people were there to see it.†   (source)
  • Your sister substantiates this failing for as her letter progresses her judgment gives way to temper — her thoughts are good, lucid the products of intelligence, but it is not now an unbiased, impersonal intelligence.†   (source)
  • Then again, he was eight at the time and maybe not the best and most unbiased source of information for keeping the records.†   (source)
  • And how many errors would she have avoided, if she had first looked at how her policies appeared to unbiased observers?†   (source)
  • Every unbiased observer may think, without being judgmental, that passion, not reason, presided over the Council's decisions.†   (source)
  • It would be wonderful if we based our decision only on the best interests of our society, unbiased by less noble interests not connected with the public good.†   (source)
  • Cases that originate on the high seas and are of admiralty or maritime jurisdiction; Cases in which the State courts cannot be expected to be impartial and unbiased.†   (source)
  • I suppose you hid the truth from me so that I would have no preconceived ideas —so that I'd be an unbiased observer.†   (source)
  • All this means that the people of any country have the right, and should have the power by constitutional action, by free unfettered elections, with secret ballot, to choose or change the character or form of government under which they dwell; that freedom of speech and thought should reign; that courts of justice, independent of the executive, unbiased by any party, should administer laws which have received the broad assent of large majorities or are consecrated by time and custom.†   (source)
  • All this means that the people of any country have the right, and should have the power by constitutional action, by free unfettered elections, with secret ballot, to choose or change the character or form of government under which they dwell; that freedom of speech and thought should reign; that courts of justice, independent of the executive, unbiased by any party, should administer laws which have received the broad assent of large majorities or are consecrated by time and custom.†   (source)
  • Speaking from experience and unbiased nature, I should say, no….†   (source)
  • You are made for each other: it is obvious, palpable, to any unbiased older person.†   (source)
  • No cant, no sticky-sweet piety here, just the manly cheerfulness of unbiased research!†   (source)
  • And what about the humane, unbiased character of canon law?†   (source)
  • With all his will Venters strove for calmness and thought and judgment unbiased by pity, and reality unswayed by sentiment.†   (source)
  • And she held that what her conscience had decided for her when her mind was unbiassed ought not to be overruled now.†   (source)
    "Editor's Notes"
    This is more commonly spelled, unbiased. The prefix "un-" in unbiassed means not and reverses the meaning of biassed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • A course that lay between undue clemency and excessive rigour: the dispensation in a heterogeneous society of arbitrary classes, incessantly rearranged in terms of greater and lesser social inequality, of unbiassed homogeneous indisputable justice, tempered with mitigants of the widest possible latitude but exactable to the uttermost farthing with confiscation of estate, real and personal, to the crown.†   (source)
  • Your unbiased science is a myth.†   (source)
  • But this particular contact with the dead, made at ten o'clock at night in the receiving parlors of the Lutz Brothers, Undertakers, and with Titus Alden falling on his knees by the side of his daughter and emotionally carrying her small, cold hands to his lips while he gazed feverishly and protestingly upon her waxy face, framed by her long brown hair, was scarcely such as to promise an unbiased or even legal opinion.†   (source)
  • …own case—on appeal—or in the event of any second trial, i. e.,—that the admission of Roberta's letters as evidence, as they stood, at least, be desperately fought on the ground that the emotional force of them was detrimental in the case of any jury anywhere, to a calm unbiased consideration of the material facts presented by them—and that instead of the letters being admitted as they stood they should be digested for the facts alone and that digest—and that only offered to the jury.†   (source)
  • What has led man into darkness, and will continue to lead him ever deeper is 'unbiased'—that is, aphilosophical—natural science.†   (source)
  • And what about unbiased research?†   (source)
  • Rather, she did what was right, right three times over, in declaring criminal any 'unbiased' striving for a knowledge of things, that is to say, any striving that casts aside those spiritual concerns aimed solely at winning salvation.†   (source)
  • It was a drill book written by Frederick the Prussian and Loyola the Spaniard, so devout and strict that it drew blood—leaving only one question: how did Naphta actually achieve such bloody, unconditional certainty, since he admitted he did not believe in pure knowledge as such, in unbiased research, in short, not even in truth, in objective, scientific truth, the search for which formed the highest law of all human morality for Lodovico Settembrini.†   (source)
  • But never had that world, to which he would not have denied theoretical and unbiased recognition, pressed in hard upon him; he had no practical experience of it, and the aversion he felt to such experiences (an aversion based on good taste, an aesthetic aversion, an aversion that came with his pride as a human being—if we can apply such pretentious terms to our thoroughly unpretentious hero) was almost equal to the curiosity they aroused in him.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XIX If Emma had still, at intervals, an anxious feeling for Harriet, a momentary doubt of its being possible for her to be really cured of her attachment to Mr. Knightley, and really able to accept another man from unbiased inclination, it was not long that she had to suffer from the recurrence of any such uncertainty.†   (source)
  • Stephen was aware that he had sense and independence enough to choose the wife who was likely to make him happy, unbiassed by any indirect considerations.†   (source)
  • It was not wonderful that, in spite of her small instruction, her judgment in this matter was truer than his: for she looked with unbiassed comparison and healthy sense at probabilities on which he had risked all his egoism.†   (source)
  • Who[164] can thus avoid all pledges, and having observed, observe again from the same unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence, must always be formidable.†   (source)
  • …parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces—though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.†   (source)
  • A liberal education had of course left him free to read the indecent passages in the school classics, but beyond a general sense of secrecy and obscenity in connection with his internal structure, had left his imagination quite unbiassed, so that for anything he knew his brains lay in small bags at his temples, and he had no more thought of representing to himself how his blood circulated than how paper served instead of gold.†   (source)
  • In the calmness of her own dressing-room, in the impartial flow of her own meditations, unbiassed by his bewildering statements, she could not acknowledge any necessity for Fanny's ever going near a father and mother who had done without her so long, while she was so useful to herself.†   (source)
  • The courts of neither of the granting States could be expected to be unbiased.†   (source)
  • But, as has been frequently observed in the course of this great history, he only talked nonsense when he touched on chivalry, and in discussing all other subjects showed that he had a clear and unbiassed understanding; so that at every turn his acts gave the lie to his intellect, and his intellect to his acts; but in the case of these second counsels that he gave Sancho he showed himself to have a lively turn of humour, and displayed conspicuously his wisdom, and also his folly.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Dashwood would have interrupted her instantly with soothing tenderness, had not Elinor, who really wished to hear her sister's unbiased opinion, by an eager sign, engaged her silence.†   (source)
  • Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good.†   (source)
  • …of such bodily strength that with one finger he stopped a mill-wheel in full motion; and posted with a two-handed sword at the foot of a bridge he kept the whole of an immense army from passing over it, and achieved such other exploits that if, instead of his relating them himself with the modesty of a knight and of one writing his own history, some free and unbiassed writer had recorded them, they would have thrown into the shade all the deeds of the Hectors, Achilleses, and Rolands.†   (source)
  • The violation of principle, in this case, would have required no comment; and, to an unbiased observer, it will not be less apparent in the project of subjecting the existence of the national government, in a similar respect, to the pleasure of the State governments.†   (source)
  • Every unbiased observer may infer, without danger of mistake, and at the same time without meaning to reflect on either party, or any individuals of either party, that, unfortunately, PASSION, not REASON, must have presided over their decisions.†   (source)
  • …contained in the articles of Union; 3d, to all those in which the United States are a party; 4th, to all those which involve the PEACE of the CONFEDERACY, whether they relate to the intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, or to that between the States themselves; 5th, to all those which originate on the high seas, and are of admiralty or maritime jurisdiction; and, lastly, to all those in which the State tribunals cannot be supposed to be impartial and unbiased.†   (source)
  • What has not America lost by her want of character with foreign nations; and how many errors and follies would she not have avoided, if the justice and propriety of her measures had, in every instance, been previously tried by the light in which they would probably appear to the unbiased part of mankind?†   (source)
  • This simple proposition will teach us how little reason there is to expect, that the persons intrusted with the administration of the affairs of the particular members of a confederacy will at all times be ready, with perfect good-humor, and an unbiased regard to the public weal, to execute the resolutions or decrees of the general authority.†   (source)
  • And there are other truths in the two latter sciences which, if they cannot pretend to rank in the class of axioms, are yet such direct inferences from them, and so obvious in themselves, and so agreeable to the natural and unsophisticated dictates of common-sense, that they challenge the assent of a sound and unbiased mind, with a degree of force and conviction almost equally irresistible.†   (source)
  • And also, you're my mom, so you're ridiculously biased, and you can't see that the film actually sucks and doesn't make any sense."†   (source)
  • I think mainly it confirmed my suspicion that if you've made a film, you can't watch it with anyone you know, because their opinions are going to be biased and worthless.†   (source)
  • Now your honour is to know, that these judges are persons appointed to decide all controversies of property, as well as for the trial of criminals, and picked out from the most dexterous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy; and having been biassed all their lives against truth and equity, lie under such a fatal necessity of favouring fraud, perjury, and oppression, that I have known some of them refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty, by…†   (source)
  • Accordingly she came to me, and told me all the discourse; in short, she soon biassed me to consent, in a case which I had some regret in my mind for declining before; so I prepared to see him.†   (source)
  • I could not imagine what should be the occasion of it, and began to be at odds with myself whether to be glad or sorry; but my affection biassed all the rest, and it was impossible to conceal my joy, which was too great for smiles, for it burst out into tears.†   (source)
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  • Here's the wedding picture: A young woman in a white satin dress cut on the bias, the fabric sleek, with a train fanned around the feet like spilled molasses.†   (source)
  • But must it always be on the bias with him?†   (source)
  • We want to end unfair sentences in criminal cases and stop racial bias in criminal justice.†   (source)
  • The second outfit was a very severe black dress, cut on the bias and stitched with white collar and cuffs, which I had made myself.†   (source)
  • If there's any bias, we'll dig it out sooner or later."†   (source)
  • Full perimeter with a bias on the entry.†   (source)
  • Her latest and best piece, bought to celebrate the end of finals, before she knew about her miserable third, was the figure-hugging dark green bias-cut backless evening gown with a halter neck.†   (source)
  • The "IQ fundamentalist" Arthur Jensen put it thusly in his 1980 book Bias in Mental Testing (p.†   (source)
  • Bias tape is threaded through the top and tied just above the bust.†   (source)
  • They were fine as a hair and perfectly straight, approximately a blue million of them, running from the middle of his nose to the sides of his face, like the ridges on a black corduroy skirt sewn on the bias, with the seam running right down the middle.†   (source)
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  • * The bias against the pass was deeply ingrained in football.†   (source)
  • Nazism was a disease to which the Dutch, too, were susceptible, and those with an anti-Semitic bias fell sick of it first.†   (source)
  • Just going on pure, irrational bias, I'm guessing L. Bob Rife.†   (source)
  • Once you begin to know the being behind the very pretty or very ugly face, as determined by your bias, the surface appearances fade away until they simply no longer matter.†   (source)
  • When we look at them with this bias we shall see them enlarge and tend to embrace everything.†   (source)
  • Some of the Enlightenment thinkers had drawn attention to the importance of feel-ing—not least Rousseau—but at that time it was a criticism of the bias toward reason.†   (source)
  • In court, the racial bias was challenged again.†   (source)
  • But it was too late, really, to do more than blandly compound her error: "I mean, from what we're told, most men with a sexual bias toward men love their mothers and hate their fathers."†   (source)
  • This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.†   (source)
  • Many theories have been put forth over the years: poverty, genetic makeup, the "summer setback" phenomenon (blacks are thought to lose more ground than whites when school is out of session), racial bias in testing or in teachers' perceptions, and a black backlash against "acting white."†   (source)
  • He didn't like the built-in bias, which he felt the research laboratory had not entirely removed.†   (source)
  • Follow-up research did find that after a village had once had a female leader, this bias against women chiefs disappeared.†   (source)
  • Because of the championship voters' pronounced bias toward eastern horses in general and War Admiral in particular, Seabiscuit almost certainly could not dethrone the Horse of the Year without beating him on the track.†   (source)
  • It was standard procedure, because she knew the lack of investigation into other possible suspects could be used by the defense to claim police bias in court.†   (source)
  • But there were only so many times he could read Time's withering critique of the cultural bias of the Stanford-Binet IQ Test, or the breathless account of how sunflowers were becoming North Dakota's newest cash crop.†   (source)
  • Federal investigators determined that Arpaio's organization had "a pervasive culture of discriminatory bias against Latinos" that "reaches the highest levels of the agency."†   (source)
  • I don't want to set up any bias in your mind.†   (source)
  • "Hardly a controlled experiment, given the bias you introduced by paying for the corn," Ghosh said.†   (source)
  • He says Judge Atlee has an obvious bias against him, so he'll ask the judge to step aside.†   (source)
  • "And with the bias of the assignments being so obvious, people won't have confidence in it."†   (source)
  • His Loyalist bias notwithstanding, Thompson's portrayal was largely the truth.†   (source)
  • My bias is that successful advertising requires you to shock your audience—catch them unaware and, eh, go for that jugular.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Osner flipped through the nightgowns and held up a silky white one, cut on the bias.†   (source)
  • His sympathy for either side was a bias for one.†   (source)
  • Or is it your bias?†   (source)
  • But this bias may go a long way to neutralize the others.†   (source)
  • Will the national government have an opposite bias?†   (source)
  • Take the line type of marriage which my colleague has been praising …. and justifiably, I assure you, despite his personal bias—I am a bachelor and have no bias.†   (source)
  • As he struck a match he felt a difference in motion, a kind of dilation; the ferry was now warped into the bias of the current, which carried it, and the ferryman worked no more; he merely kept one hand on his line.†   (source)
  • But acting without selfish motive or private bias, those who follow the dictates of an intelligent conscience are not aristocrats, demagogues, eccentrics or callous politicians insensitive to the feelings of the public.†   (source)
  • It wasn't five minutes before Uncle Rondo suddenly appeared in the hall in one of Stella-Rondo's flesh-colored kimonos, all cut on the bias, like something Mr. Whitaker probably thought was gorgeous.†   (source)
  • They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religions prejudice, union pressures; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.†   (source)
  • But these cases also tend to create distortions and bias.†   (source)
  • This is quite clearly the kind of unconscious bias that the IAT picks up on.†   (source)
  • I've got a bias against sports that require me to bounce a ball off my head."†   (source)
  • They talk about racism and conscious bias.†   (source)
  • He challenged the racial bias of these actions and the abuse of his civil rights.†   (source)
  • Science on the other hand is dispassionate and without bias, it is the only universal language.†   (source)
  • It is important that the States feel as little bias as possible to increase or reduce their numbers.†   (source)
  • Payne has tried all kinds of techniques to reduce this bias.†   (source)
  • But State officials will rarely feel a bias in favor of the federal government.†   (source)
  • Such a bias probably won't worry people who would be immediately injured by it.†   (source)
  • His interest would bias his judgment and probably corrupt his integrity.†   (source)
  • They yield to a bias and they entangle themselves in words and subtleties.†   (source)
  • An improper bias in favor of merchants isn't expected.†   (source)
  • No man should be a judge in his own cause or in any cause in which he has an interest or bias.†   (source)
  • A false bias can be created for a variety of good reasons.†   (source)
  • Other people have an opposite bias, making their opinions unimportant.†   (source)
  • Therefore, its only bias will probably be towards the principles on which it is founded.†   (source)
  • Alicia looked as ridiculously beautiful as I had known she would, her skin polished a pale caramel, the bias-cut off-white silk skimming her slim figure as if it wouldn't dare rest there without permission.†   (source)
  • Uncle Enzo is cooperating with Mr. Lee, which means working with Ng, and Ng, while highly competent, has a technological bias that Uncle Enzo distrusts.†   (source)
  • With him it was always on the bias: slipping diagonally from corner to corner, skirting past a potted plant, sliding through a crack in the door.†   (source)
  • As she pulled it on she approved of the firm caress of the bias cut through the silk of her petticoat, and she felt sleekly impregnable, slippery and secure; it was a mermaid who rose to meet her in her own full-length mirror.†   (source)
  • This shockingly straightforward question came from none other than the man who ate, drank, and slept on the bias.†   (source)
  • In the 60 Minutes interview with Chapman, he dismissed as silly the suggestion of any racial bias in Walter McMillian's prosecution.†   (source)
  • In the mid-1960s, the Court held that using peremptory strikes in a racially discriminatory manner was unconstitutional, but the justices created an evidentiary standard for proving racial bias that was so high that no one had successfully challenged peremptory strikes in twenty years.†   (source)
  • I asked several courts to stay Herbert's execution because of his ineffective lawyer, racial bias during the trial, the inflammatory comments made by the prosecutor, and the lack of mitigation evidence presented.†   (source)
  • We were assisting clients on death row, challenging excessive punishments, helping disabled prisoners, assisting children incarcerated in the adult system, and looking at ways to expose racial bias, discrimination against the poor, and the abuse of power.†   (source)
  • James —Bo" Cochran had been released after spending nearly twenty years on Alabama's death row; a new trial was awarded after federal courts reversed his conviction because of racial bias during jury selection.†   (source)
  • Presumptions of guilt, poverty, racial bias, and a host of other social, structural, and political dynamics have created a system that is defined by error, a system in which thousands of innocent people now suffer in prison.†   (source)
  • In this book you will learn the story of Walter's case, which taught me about our system's disturbing indifference to inaccurate or unreliable verdicts, our comfort with bias, and our tolerance of unfair prosecutions and convictions.†   (source)
  • But given Maclay's contempt for Adams—a contempt so blatant that some in the Senate urged him to exercise some self-restraint—it is hard to imagine that what he wrote was not highly colored by bias.†   (source)
  • The subtle pro-Reagan bias in Jennings's face seems to have influenced the voting behavior of ABC viewers.†   (source)
  • Their bias is toward dead, foreign men.†   (source)
  • But a girlfriend who worked at the university paper convinced him to write a story—which relied heavily on the use of statistics— about the bias in SAT scores used in admission.†   (source)
  • " But this is not necessarily evidence of gender bias, since Iranians call baby girls an equivalent: nanaz tala, or "golden pubic area.†   (source)
  • This bias cannot be helped, for it reflects the selectivity of the evidence available to the historian who seeks to get inside the minds of those men.†   (source)
  • It's obvious to me and many others that you have a racial bias in this case and there's no way my client can get a fair trial.†   (source)
  • But in the particular, unguarded way that people watch the news, a little bias can suddenly go a long way.†   (source)
  • Age and bias had robbed them of reason, as they had spent their lives robbing life … from the young and the very young.†   (source)
  • Once I had the record of the case, I could put together an appeal, usually based on some judicial irregularity such as bias, incorrect procedure, or insufficient evidence.†   (source)
  • This rather startling bias in the sample may have occurred because those who did the fighting came disproportionately from the same groups as the sample.†   (source)
  • As The Lancet noted: The neglect of women's issues … does reflect some level of unconscious bias against women at every level, from the community to high-level decisionmakers….†   (source)
  • The following day, Sistrunk and Buckley filed another motion asking Judge Atlee to remove himself on the vague, bizarre grounds that he held some sort of bias against the handwritten will.†   (source)
  • The only possible conclusion, according to the study, is that Jennings exhibited a "significant and noticeable bias in facial expression" toward Reagan.†   (source)
  • They pass hard, legitimate judgments, unlike the purblind guesses of men, fogged with romanticism and ignorance and bias and wish.†   (source)
  • I took the test a second time, and then a third time, and then a fourth time, hoping that the awful feeling of bias would go away.†   (source)
  • Taking our powers of rapid cognition seriously means we have to acknowledge the subtle influences that can alter or undermine or bias the products of our unconscious.†   (source)
  • Overwhelmingly, the heads of big companies are, as I'm sure comes as no surprise to anyone, white men, which undoubtedly reflects some kind of implicit bias.†   (source)
  • If State or regional courts have the final opinions, a bias based on local views and local regulations would produce contradictions.†   (source)
  • Wouldn't the strong bias of the first decision overrule the influence of any new information that might change the second?†   (source)
  • The Senate will probably not feel a favorable bias towards an impeached official who was appointed by the President.†   (source)
  • Thus, without corrupting all citizens, the presidential electors will at least begin the task free from any sinister bias.†   (source)
  • More people will have friendship, family, and party ties with State officials, strengthening the popular bias towards the State.†   (source)
  • Experience confirms this bias.†   (source)
  • States' Census Bias†   (source)
  • …throughout Massachusetts in tens of thousands, he wrote a masterful reply—criticizing the Federalist party as sectional, outmoded and unpatriotic; insisting that the critical issues of war and peace could not be decided on the basis of "geographical position, party bias or professional occupation"; and exploding at Pickering's servile statement that "Although Great Britain, with her thousand ships of war, could have destroyed our commerce, she has really done it no essential injury."†   (source)
  • And fatal is no figure of speech; for anything written with that conscious bias is doomed to death.†   (source)
  • There was, discernible in the letter, a slight anti-foreign bias-but not enough to explain the matter to my satisfaction.†   (source)
  • The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents--or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall.†   (source)
  • The owner, Nakamura-san learned, was a compassionate man, who did not share the bias of many employers against hibakusha; he had several on his staff of twenty women wrappers.†   (source)
  • Prejudice and bias had governed its every step.†   (source)
  • But then you're not without bias in the matter.†   (source)
  • And if we sometimes think otherwise, it's because we have a natural bias in the matter.†   (source)
  • To enable him to do which, without bias and with perfect freedom, I shall go out of town for a week.†   (source)
  • "I am aware," he said, "that the peculiar bias of medical ability is towards material means.†   (source)
  • Men living at such times have a natural bias to free institutions.†   (source)
  • What was Mr. Casaubon's bias his acts will give us a clew to.†   (source)
  • On the political question, I referred simply to intellectual bias.†   (source)
  • With nothing of that literary taste which less heeds the thing conveyed than the vehicle, his bias was toward those books to which every serious mind of superior order occupying any active post of authority in the world naturally inclines; books treating of actual men and events no matter of what era—history, biography and unconventional writers, who, free from cant and convention, like Montaigne, honestly and in the spirit of common sense philosophize upon realities.†   (source)
  • It flows from the fact that in each exists a bias toward affection, a craving for the pleasure of being loved.†   (source)
  • "I will not bias your mind by suggesting theories or suspicions, Watson," said he; "I wish you simply to report facts in the fullest possible manner to me, and you can leave me to do the theorizing."†   (source)
  • Slowly Jude unfolded to the curate his late plans and movements, by an unconscious bias dwelling less upon the intellectual and ambitious side of his dream, and more upon the theological, though this had, up till now, been merely a portion of the general plan of advancement.†   (source)
  • The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line.†   (source)
  • Once they did, however, it was a foregone conclusion that her religious notions, not being grounded on any conviction or temperamental bias of her own, were not likely to withstand the shock.†   (source)
  • Oh, be very sure that no such mistaken judgment based on any local or religious or moral theory of conduct or bias, because of presumed irrefutable evidence, is permitted to prejudice you, so that without meaning to, and with the best and highest-minded intentions, you yourselves see a crime, or the intention to commit a crime, when no such crime or any such intention ever truly or legally existed or lodged in the mind or acts of this defendant.†   (source)
  • I have been taught these two aphorisms in Latin and in Greek; one is, I believe, from Phaedrus, and the other from Bias.†   (source)
  • Where there is much bias there must be some narrowness, and love, though added emotion, is subtracted capacity.†   (source)
  • "Don't trouble yourself to give her a character," returned Mr. Rochester: "eulogiums will not bias me; I shall judge for myself.†   (source)
  • Anne gave her credit, indeed, for feelings of great consideration towards herself, in all that related to Kellynch, and it pleased her: especially, as she had satisfied herself in the very first half minute, in the instant even of introduction, that there was not the smallest symptom of any knowledge or suspicion on Mrs Croft's side, to give a bias of any sort.†   (source)
  • They do not expect that the free right to vote, to enjoy civic rights, and to be educated, will come in a moment; they do not expect to see the bias and prejudices of years disappear at the blast of a trumpet; but they are absolutely certain that the way for a people to gain their reasonable rights is not by voluntarily throwing them away and insisting that they do not want them; that the way for a people to gain respect is not by continually belittling and ridiculing themselves; that,…†   (source)
  • In short, it was said of the Pathfinder, by one accustomed to study his fellows, that he was a fair example of what a just-minded and pure man might be, while untempted by unruly or ambitious desires, and left to follow the bias of his feelings, amid the solitary grandeur and ennobling influences of a sublime nature; neither led aside by the inducements which influence all to do evil amid the incentives of civilization, nor forgetful of the Almighty Being whose spirit pervades the…†   (source)
  • The mind of Judge Temple, at all times comprehensive, had received from his peculiar occupations a bias to look far into futurity, in his speculations on the improvements that posterity were to make in his lands.†   (source)
  • Mr. Perry was an intelligent, gentlemanlike man, whose frequent visits were one of the comforts of Mr. Woodhouse's life; and upon being applied to, he could not but acknowledge (though it seemed rather against the bias of inclination) that wedding-cake might certainly disagree with many—perhaps with most people, unless taken moderately.†   (source)
  • Both were men of courage and honor; and as M. de la Tremouille—a Protestant, and seeing the king seldom—was of no party, he did not, in general, carry any bias into his social relations.†   (source)
  • Circumstances, and a certain bias of mind, have led me to take interest in such riddles, and it may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma of the kind which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.†   (source)
  • My heart is still with the people; but I don't deny that my reason has a certain bias towards the authorities—the local ones, I mean.†   (source)
  • Strange as it always is to consider any assembly in the act of submissively resigning itself to the dreariness of some complacent person, lord or commoner, whom three-fourths of it could, by no human means, raise out of the slough of inanity to their own intellectual level, it was particularly strange, and it was even particularly affecting, to see this crowd of earnest faces, whose honesty in the main no competent observer free from bias could doubt, so agitated by such a leader.†   (source)
  • But thanks to our skillful coxswain, we were fouled on the bias rather than broadside, so we didn't capsize.†   (source)
  • For, though the bias of her nature was not to thought, but to sympathy, yet was she so perfect in her own nature, as to meet intellectual persons by the fullness of her heart, warming them by her sentiments; believing, as she did, that by dealing nobly with all, all would show themselves noble.†   (source)
  • No. A well-proportioned mind is one which shows no particular bias; one of which we may safely say that it will never cause its owner to be confined as a madman, tortured as a heretic, or crucified as a blasphemer.†   (source)
  • Oh! this has so much influence, it can so bias the mind; but, gentlemen of the jury, can it bias your minds?†   (source)
  • Her tranquil, tender affection for Philip, with its root deep down in her childhood, and its memories of long quiet talk confirming by distinct successive impressions the first instinctive bias,—the fact that in him the appeal was more strongly to her pity and womanly devotedness than to her vanity or other egoistic excitability of her nature,—seemed now to make a sort of sacred place, a sanctuary where she could find refuge from an alluring influence which the best part of herself…†   (source)
  • …touching Queen Elizabeth,[599] and King James,[600] and the Essexes,[601] Leicesters,[602] Burleighs,[603] and Buckinghams;[604] and lets pass without a single valuable note the founder of another dynasty, which alone will cause the Tudor dynasty[605] to be remembered,—the man who carries the Saxon race in him by the inspiration which feeds him, and on whose thoughts the foremost people of the world are now for some ages to be nourished, and minds to receive this and not another bias.†   (source)
  • We each begin, probably, with a little bias towards our own sex; and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle; many of which circumstances (perhaps those very cases which strike us the most) may be precisely such as cannot be brought forward without betraying a confidence, or in some respect saying what should not be said.†   (source)
  • Hence such men can never, without an effort, tear themselves from their private affairs to engage in public business; their natural bias leads them to abandon the latter to the sole visible and permanent representative of the interests of the community, that is to say, to the State.†   (source)
  • Whereupon, not being able to contradict these unpleasant facts, he contradicted his own strongest bias and said, "I am a fool."†   (source)
  • It contained that concentrated experience which in great crises of emotion reveals the bias of a nature, and is prophetic of the ultimate act which will end an intermediate struggle.†   (source)
  • Lydgate's private opinion was that Mr. Chichely might be the very coroner without bias as to the coats of the stomach, but he had not meant to be personal.†   (source)
  • In such an hour the mind does not change its lifelong bias, but carries it onward in imagination to the other side of death, gazing backward—perhaps with the divine calm of beneficence, perhaps with the petty anxieties of self-assertion.†   (source)
  • He was really uncertain whether Tyke were not the more suitable candidate, and yet his consciousness told him that if he had been quite free from indirect bias he should have voted for Mr. Farebrother.†   (source)
  • Celia had those light young feminine tastes which grave and weatherworn gentlemen sometimes prefer in a wife; but happily Mr. Casaubon's bias had been different, for he would have had no chance with Celia.†   (source)
  • The bias of human nature to be slow in correspondence triumphs even over the present quickening in the general pace of things: what wonder then that in 1832 old Sir Godwin Lydgate was slow to write a letter which was of consequence to others rather than to himself?†   (source)
  • …not long after that interview between Mr. Farebrother and Mary Garth, in which she confessed to him her feeling for Fred Vincy, it happened that her father had some business which took him to Yoddrell's farm in the direction of Frick: it was to measure and value an outlying piece of land belonging to Lowick Manor, which Caleb expected to dispose of advantageously for Dorothea (it must be confessed that his bias was towards getting the best possible terms from railroad companies).†   (source)
  • His temper might perhaps be a little soured by finding, like many others of his sex, that through some unaccountable bias in favour of beauty, he was the husband of a very silly woman,—but she knew that this kind of blunder was too common for any sensible man to be lastingly hurt by it.†   (source)
  • Even brutes do not devour their young, nor savages make war upon their families; wherefore the assertion, if true, turns to her reproach; but it happens not to be true, or only partly so and the phrase PARENT or MOTHER COUNTRY hath been jesuitically adopted by the king and his parasites, with a low papistical design of gaining an unfair bias on the credulous weakness of our minds.†   (source)
  • Next he took on Laogonos and Dardanos, Bias' sons, and forced them from their chariot, one with a spear-cast, one slashed by the sword.†   (source)
  • These will be offered to you with the more freedom, as you can only see in them the disinterested warnings of a parting friend, who can possibly have no personal motive to bias his counsel.†   (source)
  • With this he left them there, and passing on to others as they formed, he found Lord Nestor, the Pylian master orator, haranguing soldiers of Pylos, forming them for action around the captains Pelagon, Alastor, Khromios, Haimon, and the marshal, Bias.†   (source)
  • Here in chariots or on foot the Akhaians fought most bitterly: Boiotians, Ionians in long khitons, men of Lokris, men of Phthia, illustrious Epeioi fought off Hektor from the ships, but could not throw him back as he came on like flame, Athenians, picked men, were here, their chief Peteos' son, Menestheus, and his aides, Pheidas and Strikhios, rugged Bias.†   (source)
  • Pure fluke of mine: the bias.†   (source)
  • /), /Bee/, /Bias/, /Big Chimney/, /Billie/, /Blue Jay/, /Bulltown/, /Caress/, /Cinderella/, /Cyclone/, /Czar/, /Cornstalk/, /Duck/, /Halcyon/, /Jingo/, /Left Hand/, /Ravens Eye/, /Six/, /Skull Run/, /Three Churches/, /Uneeda/, /Wide Mouth/, /War Eagle/ and /Stumptown/.†   (source)
  • He personally, being of a sceptical bias, believed and didn't make the smallest bones about saying so either that man or men in the plural were always hanging around on the waiting list about a lady, even supposing she was the best wife in the world and they got on fairly well together for the sake of argument, when, neglecting her duties, she chose to be tired of wedded life and was on for a little flutter in polite debauchery to press their attentions on her with improper intent, the…†   (source)
  • [To OLIVIA] So comes it, lady, you have been mistook: But nature to her bias drew in that.†   (source)
  • Well, forward, forward! thus the bowl should run, And not unluckily against the bias.†   (source)
  • — See you now; Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth: And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlaces, and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out: So, by my former lecture and advice, Shall you my son.†   (source)
  • Then he must keep his counsel secret, unless confiding it to another shall be more profitable; but, in so confiding it, he shall say nothing to bias the mind of the counsellor toward flattery or subserviency.†   (source)
  • Thus Nature gives us (let it check our pride) The virtue nearest to our vice allied: Reason the bias turns to good from ill And Nero reigns a Titus, if he will.†   (source)
  • Thus without corrupting the body of the people, the immediate agents in the election will at least enter upon the task free from any sinister bias.†   (source)
  • It is almost impossible for the best parent to observe an exact impartiality to his children, even though no superior merit should bias his affection; but sure a parent can hardly be blamed, when that superiority determines his preference.†   (source)
  • If, I say, I should talk of these or such-like things to men that had taken their bias another way, how deaf would they be to all I could say!†   (source)
  • For, indeed, who is there alive that will not be swayed by his bias and partiality to the place of his birth?†   (source)
  • Study his bias leaves, and makes his book thine eyes, Where all those pleasures live that art would comprehend: If knowledge be the mark, to know thee shall suffice.†   (source)
  • This villain of mine comes under the prediction; there's son against father: the king falls from bias of nature; there's father against child.†   (source)
  • …fallen upon a very good expedient for their own happiness and safety; for since the good or ill condition of a nation depends so much upon their magistrates, they could not have made a better choice than by pitching on men whom no advantages can bias; for wealth is of no use to them, since they must so soon go back to their own country, and they, being strangers among them, are not engaged in any of their heats or animosities; and it is certain that when public judicatories are swayed,…†   (source)
  • No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has the least interest or bias.†   (source)
  • …observed in their council is, never to debate a thing on the same day in which it is first proposed; for that is always referred to the next meeting, that so men may not rashly and in the heat of discourse engage themselves too soon, which might bias them so much that, instead of consulting the good of the public, they might rather study to support their first opinions, and by a perverse and preposterous sort of shame hazard their country rather than endanger their own reputation, or…†   (source)
  • No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity.†   (source)
  • That the strong bias of one decision would be apt to overrule the influence of any new lights which might be brought to vary the complexion of another decision?†   (source)
  • Men, upon too many occasions, do not give their own understandings fair play; but, yielding to some untoward bias, they entangle themselves in words and confound themselves in subtleties.†   (source)
  • As there is little likelihood that the supposition of such a bias will have any terrors for those who would be immediately injured by it, a labored answer to this question will be dispensed with.†   (source)
  • If any further arguments were necessary to evince the improbability of such a bias, it might be found in the nature of the agency of the Senate in the business of appointments.†   (source)
  • So numerous indeed and so powerful are the causes which serve to give a false bias to the judgment, that we, upon many occasions, see wise and good men on the wrong as well as on the right side of questions of the first magnitude to society.†   (source)
  • In order, perhaps, to give countenance to the objection at any rate, it may be asked, is there not danger of an opposite bias in the national government, which may dispose it to endeavor to secure a monopoly of the federal administration to the landed class?†   (source)
  • In this case, if the particular tribunals are invested with a right of ultimate jurisdiction, besides the contradictions to be expected from difference of opinion, there will be much to fear from the bias of local views and prejudices, and from the interference of local regulations.†   (source)
  • But in reality the same situation must have the same effect, in the primative composition at least of the federal House of Representatives: an improper bias towards the mercantile class is as little to be expected from this quarter as from the other.†   (source)
  • And with the members of these, will a greater proportion of the people have the ties of personal acquaintance and friendship, and of family and party attachments; on the side of these, therefore, the popular bias may well be expected most strongly to incline.†   (source)
  • The prepossessions, which the members themselves will carry into the federal government, will generally be favorable to the States; whilst it will rarely happen, that the members of the State governments will carry into the public councils a bias in favor of the general government.†   (source)
  • In some, it has been too evident from their own publications, that they have scanned the proposed Constitution, not only with a predisposition to censure, but with a predetermination to condemn; as the language held by others betrays an opposite predetermination or bias, which must render their opinions also of little moment in the question.†   (source)
  • As the accuracy of the census to be obtained by the Congress will necessarily depend, in a considerable degree on the disposition, if not on the co-operation, of the States, it is of great importance that the States should feel as little bias as possible, to swell or to reduce the amount of their numbers.†   (source)
  • Another is puzzled to say which of these shapes it will ultimately assume, but sees clearly it must be one or other of them; whilst a fourth is not wanting, who with no less confidence affirms that the Constitution is so far from having a bias towards either of these dangers, that the weight on that side will not be sufficient to keep it upright and firm against its opposite propensities.†   (source)
  • It is but just to remark in favor of the latter description, that as our situation is universally admitted to be peculiarly critical, and to require indispensably that something should be done for our relief, the predetermined patron of what has been actually done may have taken his bias from the weight of these considerations, as well as from considerations of a sinister nature.†   (source)
  • One is that the judges, who are to be the interpreters of the law, might receive an improper bias, from having given a previous opinion in their revisionary capacities; the other is that by being often associated with the Executive, they might be induced to embark too far in the political views of that magistrate, and thus a dangerous combination might by degrees be cemented between the executive and judiciary departments.†   (source)
  • Though facts may not always correspond with this presumption, yet if it be, in the main, just, it must destroy the supposition that the Senate, who will merely sanction the choice of the Executive, should feel a bias, towards the objects of that choice, strong enough to blind them to the evidences of guilt so extraordinary, as to have induced the representatives of the nation to become its accusers.†   (source)
  • To secure the full effect of so fundamental a provision against all evasion and subterfuge, it is necessary that its construction should be committed to that tribunal which, having no local attachments, will be likely to be impartial between the different States and their citizens, and which, owing its official existence to the Union, will never be likely to feel any bias inauspicious to the principles on which it is founded.†   (source)
  • Upon the same principle that a man is more attached to his family than to his neighborhood, to his neighborhood than to the community at large, the people of each State would be apt to feel a stronger bias towards their local governments than towards the government of the Union; unless the force of that principle should be destroyed by a much better administration of the latter.†   (source)
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