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factor as in:  It was the deciding factor.

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  • In the second paragraph, the narrator's focus shifts from factors making her unhappy to identification of possible solutions to her unhappiness.
    factors = things (that influence an outcome)
  • I wrote that children of bipolar parents are hit with double risk factors: first, because they are genetically predisposed to mood disorders, and second, because of the stressful environment and poor parenting of parents with such disorders.   (source)
    factors = things that affect a result or outcome
  • It's no time to be half watching, turning around, or checking the stove—because when the book thief stole her second book, not only were there many factors involved in her hunger to do so, but the act of stealing it triggered the crux of what was to come.   (source)
  • This geographical advantage was a major factor in the districts losing the war that led to my being a tribute today.   (source)
    factor = thing that affects a result or outcome
  • Sometimes they're caused by the interaction of many genes, possibly in combination with environmental factors.   (source)
    factors = influences (things that affect other things)
  • My bankrupt diet of government-subsidized sugar-and-starch-laden food was a contributing factor, but I was also an OASIS addict, so the only exercise I usually got back then was running away from bullies before and after school.   (source)
    factor = thing that affects a result or outcome
  • On a bombing run with the Norden sight, Louie would visually locate the target, make calculations, and feed information on air speed, altitude, wind, and other factors into the device.   (source)
    factors = things that affect a result or outcome
  • All of the factors — disposition, energy level, intelligence, and interests — had to correspond and to interact perfectly.   (source)
  • It was the police view that a tire caught in an exposed streetcar track was a contributing factor.   (source)
    factor = thing that caused something to happen
  • Yeah, he believes Malik is going to be able to identify some factor in tuatara blood that makes them age slowly, and then he's going to 'cure death,'   (source)
    factor = something that affects a result or outcome
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  • It would take as long as an hour and a half some days, depending on traffic, stalled trains, weather, and other factors, but we would make it there.   (source)
    factors = things that affect a result or outcome
  • At most, weather a contributing factor.   (source)
    factor = thing that affects a result or outcome
  • We ruled out blood type, gender, physical size, intelligence factors, genetic markers-nothing seemed to account for the negatives.   (source)
    factors = things that affect a result or outcome
  • That's really the limiting factor to life support.   (source)
    factor = thing that affects a result or outcome
  • Harry pointed out these encouraging factors to Ron as they walked, but he was not sure that Ron was listening.   (source)
    factors = things that affect a result or outcome
  • You had so many factors to balance when you were making decisions: the victims, the police, law enforcement, society.   (source)
  • A few miles away it was joined to the ocean, so that its movements were governed by unimaginable factors like the Gulf Stream, the Polar Ice Cap, and the moon.   (source)
  • In addition to the delicious meals she brought him every day, another factor helped bring about his amazing recovery: the conversations he had with her after eating his meals.   (source)
    factor = thing that affects a result or outcome
  • "At an Improbability factor," cut in Eddie, who hadn't changed a bit, "of eight million, seven hundred and sixty-seven thousand, one hundred and twenty-eight to one against."   (source)
    factor = something that affects a result or outcome
  • They'll add to our intimidation factor when we're busting down doors and launching RPGs.   (source)
  • There are several factors involved in this engagement.   (source)
    factors = things that affect a result or outcome
  • The deciding factor in how they reacted wasn't how emotionally secure they were, or whether they were intellectuals or jocks, or whether they were physically imposing or not.   (source)
    factor = thing that affects a result or outcome
  • Depending on numerous factors, such as topography and psychology, the riflemen carried anywhere from 12 to 20 magazines, usually in cloth bandoliers, adding on another 8.   (source)
    factors = things that affect a result or outcome
  • I think the deciding factor …. was revenge.   (source)
    factor = thing that affects a result or outcome
  • There are many factors to consider.   (source)
    factors = things that affect a result or outcome
  • I've heard so many people talk of a downward spiral in our educational system, and I think one key factor is that there is too much stroking and too little real feedback.   (source)
    factor = thing that affects a result or outcome
  • In a blizzard it would never even be able to lift off and you couldn't hope to run a snowmobile at top speed, even if you dared take a seriously injured person out into temperatures that might be twenty-five below-or forty-five below, if you added in the wind chill factor.   (source)
    factor = something that affects a result or outcome
  • Adding to the coolness factor is the sat radio antenna on the very top of the vehicle, with a donkey-dick radio antenna next to it.   (source)
  • Her syphilis, it turns out, could have been a factor as well—syphilis can suppress the immune system and allow cancer to spread faster than normal.   (source)
  • Now, I don't like school, which you might say is one of the factors that got us involved with this old guy we nicknamed the Pigman.   (source)
    factors = things that affect a result or outcome
  • Except for two mitigating factors: (1) he was about two hundred years old, and (2) from where I stood, the mountain he was crossing had a gradient slightly steeper than the Washington Monument.   (source)
  • And yet, while self-interest—economic, spiritual, emotional—might have been a motivating factor, or even a prime mover, in these examples of cultural connecting in Clarkston, what was most interesting was what happened once the connecting kicked in.   (source)
    factor = thing that affects a result or outcome
  • I don't know exactly how it works, but it was probably a contributing factor to the breakup of Blomkvist's marriage to Abrahamsson.   (source)
  • Coming across an unknown factor in the middle of an otherwise straightforward sort just when you thought you were done.   (source)
  • We were best buds, no matter what, and, of course, there was the Leigh factor.   (source)
    factor = something that affects a result or outcome
  • A hundred miles west and one would be out of the "Bible Belt," that gospel-haunted strip of American territory in which a man must, if only for business reasons, take his religion with the straightest of faces, but in Finney County one is still within the Bible Belt borders, and therefore a person's church affiliation is the most important factor influencing his class status.   (source)
    factor = thing that affects a result or outcome
  • Her white skin and the pince-nez that she dramatically took from her nose and let hang free on a chain pinned to her dress were factors that brought her a great deal of respect.   (source)
    factors = things that affect a result or outcome
  • Your timing on this is absolutely perfect, but I suppose you took that factor into account in your calculations.   (source)
    factor = thing that affects a result or outcome
  • When considering an investment, we should, in my opinion, take a chance on human beings, rather than on purely material factors.   (source)
    factors = things that affect a result or outcome
  • And although Sophie's mother was anxious and worried she did not give me the feeling that I was the one regrettable and unreliable factor in an otherwise orderly life, the way most people did at home.   (source)
    factor = thing that affects a result or outcome
  • It would depend on a number of factors, including your income and stability.   (source)
    factors = things that affect a result or outcome
  • Ultimately the determining factor is the mental attitude of the ruling class itself.   (source)
    factor = thing that affects a result or outcome
  • That was the disturbing factor-the revolver!   (source)
  • And his opinion is quite typical, here one meets it time and again, and there is nothing with which one can properly counter it, because that is the limit of their comprehension of the factors involved.   (source)
    factors = things that affect a result or outcome
  • We have now to deal with a new factor, Madam Mina.   (source)
    factor = thing that affects a result or outcome
  • There is Mr. Frankland, of Lafter Hall, who is also an unknown factor, and there are one or two other neighbours.   (source)
    factor = something that affects a result or outcome
  • The controlling factor was that they could not stay where they were—they had to go somewhere.   (source)
    factor = thing that affects a result or outcome
  • You are saying this is due to psychological factors?†   (source)
  • Melting snow to water reduced it in volume by a factor of ten, so filling the bathtub required hauling up twelve loads of snow in the forty-two-gallon barrel we had hooked up to the pulley-and-winch system in the stairwell.†   (source)
  • In other words, there were many factors within and without Anna's control that contributed to her resurgence.†   (source)
  • These programs are far from perfect, but to the degree that I nearly succumbed to my worst decisions (and I came quite close), the fault lies almost entirely with factors outside the government's control.†   (source)
  • There were just too many unknown factors.†   (source)
  • A review of the other factors set out above does not provide conclusive evidence that the witness, Ralph Meyers, perjured himself at the original trial.†   (source)
  • "If classroom behavior were a determining factor for making the team, Connor, you might be in trouble," Mr. Dimming says.†   (source)
  • His willingness to check out the store, no matter how poorly he did it, was one of those causative factors that resulted in the death of Mr. Nesbitt.†   (source)
  • I heard them saying something about how it wasn't supposed to happen, how the gun had been a factor they hadn't expected.†   (source)
  • What would be the deciding factor?†   (source)
  • Jennifer's score is the result of comparing her test results, her class rank, her school's relative academic strength and a number of other factors.†   (source)
  • In the summer, in the bottom of a quarry, it could be brutally hot, and the dust was always a factor; the rain cooled the rock slabs, the rain held the dust down.†   (source)
  • I think maybe it was the deciding factor in a decision she had wanted to make for a long time.†   (source)
  • But the most important factor was Dr. Golan.†   (source)
  • Every step up the chain reduces the amount of food energy by a factor of ten.†   (source)
  • Vanity is a factor, but it is more a question of control.†   (source)
  • After several moments' contemplation, he realized that these factors meant little to the overall strategies of both sides.†   (source)
  • HERMIONE (from off): What you said was obviously wrong—but-there are more factors at play here than-†   (source)
  • None of these factors, in my view, were necessarily reasons to dislike Kylie or whatever, especially since Boris and I had wholeheartedly taken to smoking pot ourselves in the past months.†   (source)
  • I could see that an end to the tantrums was a big help, but what seemed to be the key factor was harder to put your finger on.†   (source)
  • A key factor was my relative lack of involvement in Ramiro's life as I became increasingly active in politics and writing.†   (source)
  • The sim re-creates the environment, plugs in the known factors, and works backward from the creative products.†   (source)
  • Another helpful factor was that the architect in charge of the building was himself a Jew, an engineer called Blum, with a staff of other Jewish engineers under him, all outstanding professionals.†   (source)
  • These factors will inevitably influence what we understand in our reading, and nowhere is this individuality clearer than in the matter of symbolism.†   (source)
  • But he saw that other factors were exerting a countervailing force.†   (source)
  • In my heart, I knew that there were factors here that he was oblivious to.†   (source)
  • And the art of printing was, not least, one of the factors that forced the Church to relinquish its former position as sole disseminator of knowledge.†   (source)
  • Edward's perfect grades and spotless record were clearly a factor in Mr. Greene's assessment of the incident.†   (source)
  • To a degree coaching can make a quarterback, and it certainly is the most important factor for his success.†   (source)
  • This was theoretically possible, but the captain quickly realized that the inertial navigation system had a built-in error factor of several hundred yards; this was aggravated by gravitational disturbances, which affected the "local vertical," which in turn affected the inertial fix.†   (source)
  • Besides my three long toes, they were convinced that my double-folded eyelids, which made my eyes appear larger, were a factor too.†   (source)
  • Oh, sure, the Narcolombians still have a lock on coca leaves, but now that Nippon Pharmaceuticals has its big cocaine-synthesis facility in Mexicali nearly complete, that will cease to be a factor.†   (source)
  • Because of a number of significant factors involved, it was a miracle for Craig to get admitted.†   (source)
  • We are all individuals with our own morals and abilities, and we should have the freedom to make our own paths without people prejudging us based on who our families are, the color of our skin, where we live, or any other outside factors.†   (source)
  • The work took almost three years, and it coincided with a brief civic revival owing to the boom in river navigation and trade, the same factors that had maintained the city's greatness during colonial times and for more than two centuries had made her the gateway to America.†   (source)
  • The pain is shock enough-although it isn't always a factor-but what really causes the damage is feeling part of your mind, part of your identity, die.†   (source)
  • That relationship was a major factor in my decision.†   (source)
  • Kynes thought of installing reduction plants to recover water from the hydrogen and oxygen locked in native rock, but the energy-cost factor was far too high.†   (source)
  • "Other factors," Mr. Ellerby says quietly.†   (source)
  • I can deal with those factors.†   (source)
  • It is impossible to know what combination of factors makes a child suitable for a certain family, but to be perfectly frank, you would not want to be with a family that doesn't welcome you wholeheartedly.†   (source)
  • We were simply left with a vaguely articulated understanding that Hall would withhold making a final decision until summit day, after assessing the weather and other factors, and would then personally take responsibility for turning everyone around at the proper hour.†   (source)
  • Although many factors helped revolutionize the poultry industry and increase the power of the large processors, one innovation played an especially important role.†   (source)
  • "I don't think I've ever had such beads of sweat rolling off me before I tell this story to people I know have loved me and prayed for me and been such a determining factor in changing my life," he began.†   (source)
  • The blood has been stripped of its clotting factors.†   (source)
  • So a major factor in East Asia's economic success was the contribution of its young peasant female workforce.†   (source)
  • Many studies have been performed to try to determine exactly why some humans Imprint and some do not, but though there are several determining factors, such as emotional attachment, relationship between the human and the vampyre pre-Change, age, sexual orientation, and frequency of blood drinking, there is no way to predict with certainty whether a human will Imprint with a vampyre.†   (source)
  • After the game on Saturday afternoon, a game we won due to Doug's touchdown pass with four seconds to go in the game, I'm talking to Sierra and the M-factors on the side of the field.†   (source)
  • His platelets are down and he isn't making clotting factors.†   (source)
  • I wanted to tell her that this, at least in my experience, wasn't as big of a factor in a relationship as you'd think, but decided against it.†   (source)
  • More of the violence, anxiety, divorce, and mistrust in the world is caused by misunderstanding money than any other factor.†   (source)
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factor as in:  factor it into your thinking

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  • Be sure to factor the cost of insurance into your decision when you think about buying a car.
    factor = include for consideration
  • My rank can't be as bad as it used to be, especially after I beat Molly, but it might not be good enough to get me in the top ten at the end of initiation, especially when the Dauntless-born initiates are factored in.   (source)
    factored = considered (for affect on a result or outcome)
  • "There's one thing this Matt Ridley bloke hasn't factored in," I said.   (source)
  • When you factor in the river bend and full moon, there are precisely one hundred and twenty-nine sites to be surveyed in this country.   (source)
    factor = include consideration of (for the affect on a result or outcome)
  • I'm really not in the mood to divvy up everything into eleven equal parts, factoring in age, body weight, and physical output.   (source)
    factoring = considering (the affect on a result or outcome)
  • The problem is that many folks try to grasp some sense of who I am by taking the best version of themselves, projecting that to the nth degree, factoring in all the goodness they can perceive, which often isn't much, and then call that God.   (source)
  • They've promoted the Ultimate Intelligence Project as a way to avoid rash decisions, to delay until all variables can be factored.   (source)
    factored = considered (for affect on a result or outcome)
  • It took years before I began to accept the fact that the nebulous "white man's world" wasn't as free as it looked; that class, luck, religion all factored in as well; that many white individuals' problems surpassed my own, often by a lot; that all Jews are not like my grandfather and that part of me is Jewish too.   (source)
  • And two days after the game it would occur to them that Chris Doleman or Lawrence Taylor or Bruce Smith hadn't factored into the game.   (source)
    factored = influenced (a result or outcome)
  • For us this would be a technical operation, but they factor politics into everything they do.   (source)
    factor = include consideration of (for the affect on a result or outcome)
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  • But I'd never factored a daughter into the equation.   (source)
    factored = considered (for affect on a result or outcome)
  • The problem arises when the additional information of gender and race is factored into a decision about an individual patient.   (source)
  • That's what you're not factoring in.   (source)
    factoring = considering (the affect on a result or outcome)
  • Which was bad enough even before you factored in that I'd eat the same dinner (chicken and salad) with the same person (my mother) at the same time (six sharp), then fill the hours before bedtime the same way (yoga and studying).   (source)
    factored = considered (for affect on a result or outcome)
  • For the freshmen majority in this survey course, a new score will, in moments, be factored into each student's personal approval rating: a tracking poll on the issue of whether their acceptance to Brown was, in fact, some sort of terrible mistake.   (source)
  • And that didn't factor in all the feeding, kennel maintenance, phone calls, dealing with clients, and paperwork.   (source)
    factor = consider (the affect on a result or outcome)
  • What happens when the whistle-blowers' corroborating evidence is factored into the analysis of the match data?   (source)
    factored = considered (for affect on a result or outcome)
  • It's said to be cheaper to execute a man than to keep him in prison for life—but in fact, when you factor in the cost of eleven years of appeals, paid for with public funds, it costs about a third more to execute a prisoner than to sentence him to life in prison.   (source)
    factor = include consideration of (for the affect on a result or outcome)
  • Given that the current output of the Very Large Array is only eight point six times ten to the sixth joules per second, even factoring for the projected rate of increase, subtracting anticipated heat dissipation, it will require some six months to observe noticeable heating, much less melting, of the material.   (source)
    factoring = considering (the affect on a result or outcome)
  • But every time you post or comment or attend anything, that gets factored in, and you'll see your rank change accordingly.†   (source)
  • But then he hadn't factored in Frits and Martin.†   (source)
  • But they hadn't factored in Thomas.†   (source)
  • We had factored in ten extra minutes, but we were about to run out of that too.†   (source)
  • And so, if you factored in her hand, did he.†   (source)
  • Every piece of information she receives factors into her strategy, and she won't tell me what time it is unless she decides that providing the information is more useful than withholding it.   (source)
    factors = is considered (for affect on a result or outcome)
  • "Factoring in the casualties and the wounded and…I think it's at least worth a conversation," says Beetee.   (source)
    factoring = considering (the affect on a result or outcome)
  • He constructed a rigid system that said that a young black man in a car running from the police had to be a dangerous criminal, and all evidence to the contrary that would ordinarily have been factored into his thinking—the fact that Russ was just sitting in his car and that he had never gone above seventy miles per hour—did not register at all.   (source)
    factored = considered (for affect on a result or outcome)
  • Then the data from the electrodes and sensors is factored in, so that the coders know, for example, when the husband's or the wife's heart was pounding or when his or her temperature was rising or when either of them was jiggling in his or her seat, and all of that information is fed into a complex equation.   (source)
  • But I doubt they have factored in the humans.†   (source)
  • Quickly he was in a room in Boston, meeting with Eric Ingvall, who was asking what went wrong, why he hadn't anticipated this, factored in that.†   (source)
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  • Adding the correction factor for perturbation from space-time curvature to the classical equations would yield the right mathematical model.†   (source)
  • The decisive factor.†   (source)
  • But as time went on, I found that my list of things we couldn't do, places we couldn't go to, had begun to exceed my ideas for those we could by a significant factor.†   (source)
  • Babi taught her to derive the quadratic equation, showed her how to factor polynomials and plot parametric curves.†   (source)
  • With the head wound an obvious contributing factor.†   (source)
  • So when the soil is too acidic, which can be thought of as sour, you should lower the pH factor.†   (source)
  • You factor in every state and local election, we're talking hundreds of billions every year in unnecessary costs associated with simple vote processing.†   (source)
  • The camouflage factor.†   (source)
  • I could hardly factor my integers, I was so distracted.†   (source)
  • You guys want to come over and watch Fear Factor?†   (source)
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  • Whatever Dumbledore said, Harry had had time to think over the summer, and had concluded that Snape's snide remarks to Sirius about remaining safely hidden while the rest of the Order of the Phoenix were off fighting Voldemort had probably been a powerful factor in Sirius rushing off to the Ministry the night that he had died.†   (source)
  • And one night Max Factor himself came over to the table, spoke to Trudy like they're just old friends"—she shakes her head—"like they were just passing by in the grocery store.†   (source)
  • "Don't factor me into this," he says, turning back around.†   (source)
  • I would have made it past the teachers with no problem, but I forgot to factor in Heather.†   (source)
  • Artemis scanned the pages for some other common factor.†   (source)
  • But I had one factor in my favor that trumped everything else: Oskar Schindler thought my life had value.†   (source)
  • They were showing movies adapted from Graham Greene: Ministry of Fear, The Human Factor; The Fallen Idol, This Gun for Hire.†   (source)
  • More disturbing, however, is the fact that Core predictive formulae have never been able to factor the Hyperion variable.†   (source)
  • I was convinced, and Dr. Hopkinson seemed to be, too, that that had been the precipitating factor in his close call with death.†   (source)
  • There were very few myths that matched even one factor.†   (source)
  • Then there is the misery factor.†   (source)
  • I just don't think Mr. Snyder would go for it: I say, raising my voice a bit louder than necessary to accentuate the noise factor Mr. Snyder would be up against.†   (source)
  • We remained on full alert and high pucker factor.†   (source)
  • But there was one more factor to indicate that all the animals on earth might be related.†   (source)
  • It's a sleepy little street, tidy and affluent, with lots of young families; they're all having their dinner around seven o'clock, or sitting on the sofa, mum and dad with the little ones squeezed between them, watching The X Factor.†   (source)
  • He was the driving factor in every game and the average fan would have had to force himself to pay attention to him, because the average fan watched the ball.†   (source)
  • With that speed range, you can figure a radiated noise level about the same as that of a Yankee doing six knots, but you'd have to factor reactor plant noise into that also.†   (source)
  • Then she gets the sap factor under control and realizes: He's waffling.†   (source)
  • The hotness factor for the Sibyl of Cumae, for instance, is completely off.†   (source)
  • Although he didn't say it, I'm convinced that my interest in classical music was a decisive factor.†   (source)
  • Since my book came out, the foundation has been contacted by numerous individuals with stories, many of which have the common factor that terrible things have been happening or were happening and no one took the time to help.†   (source)
  • It is also a very good illustration of the Stickiness Factor.†   (source)
  • In any case, the principal factor operating against Dr. Juvenal Urbino was his more than suspect resemblance to the ideal man that Lorenzo Daza had so wanted for his daughter.†   (source)
  • "Cautious," he said, "and aware of the error factor."†   (source)
  • There's a strong case to be made for that belief being a core factor in keeping humans on their knees.†   (source)
  • Patch was an X factor: intangible, scary, and unknown.†   (source)
  • If a new BMW in the school parking lot gave you clout at Dan's high school, then Apple products and sheer volume of books seemed to grant the cool factor at NHCP.†   (source)
  • T ell me, do you suppose the debt situation regarding America is a significant factor in the present low levels of trade?†   (source)
  • I thought of telling them about the computer tally, the time-factored death I carried in my chromosomes and blood.†   (source)
  • The kiddie factor alone — children urging their parents to shop at Wal-Mart because they have a McDonald's inside the store — could generate an upsurge in customers.†   (source)
  • He was careful not to use scary military terms such as virus amplification, lethal chain of transmission, crash and bleed, or major pucker factor.†   (source)
  • But the crucial factor for Zainab's family was that both parents were close to Saddam Hussein.†   (source)
  • Sierra calls them the Fairfield M-factor.†   (source)
  • I knew there was some Ted factor involved in this.†   (source)
  • Xavier seemed to think keeping the tables well wiped was the crucial factor in his business, though Augustus was often forced to point out to him that such a view was nonsense.†   (source)
  • And he is a disturbing factor, that's obvious.†   (source)
  • Mom says I need to lose the bitter factor, pronto, but she's not the one leaving behind her fabulous best friend, Bridgette.†   (source)
  • This is due in part to the familiarity factor.†   (source)
  • IT WAS A different matter, in Cal's mind, when you added the human factor.†   (source)
  • Maureen was the last, but the minute she did, I circled that factor on the white board.†   (source)
  • Levy soon became the unifying factor in the shop: the rest of us united against her.†   (source)
  • Perhaps there was a trace of relief in that he was gone and his death meant one less complicating factor in Herschel's life.†   (source)
  • You're an entropic chaos factor.†   (source)
  • The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that Jackie just might be the pivotal factor in helping him get reelected in 1964.†   (source)
  • Possible, possible, she thought, and her computer agreed after a jittery wheeze, with a ninety-six-three probability factor.†   (source)
  • The one mitigating factor in this uncommon relationship was the fact that Svensson also respected Carlos.†   (source)
  • The calming presence of veterans in their midst was one factor in their resolve.†   (source)
  • The meter's been running, my friend, and when I factor in the overtime ...†   (source)
  • One factor important to Jesse Sheidlower is that "American English has always been very inclusive of new terms.†   (source)
  • Yeah, but that's not the only factor in a relationship.†   (source)
  • There was a third factor, but without the first two, I don't believe the story ever would have been written.†   (source)
  • The time factor removes it from having any bearing on Brussels or Zurich.†   (source)
  • Forsyth was convinced that it was a confidence factor.†   (source)
  • Somehow I knew he'd factor back into this equation.†   (source)
  • At last we agreed that programming was done—or that we could think of no other significant factor.†   (source)
  • The greed factor works every time.†   (source)
  • While careful to say that no single factor can explain each country's violence, he tries to depict the essential settings of the slaughters — that is, the lives of the peasant majorities.†   (source)
  • The burnout factor.†   (source)
  • We can never tell when one such issue may he decided and what may be the decisive factor in a delicate balance.†   (source)
  • The spokesman had done well, but one element was missing from his attack-the critical factor that elevated Wulfgar above other men.†   (source)
  • Yet other than that factor, everything was always different.†   (source)
  • People grew to love our DVDs; I think there was a shock factor involved, and people wanted to see what the crazy Cajuns in Louisiana would do next!†   (source)
  • * The second factor that converted many soldiers to support of emancipation was a growing conviction that it really did hurt the enemy and help their own side.†   (source)
  • Alpha Group's specialty was the human factor, and it was to humans they turned for information.†   (source)
  • At least we can still count on selfinterest as a predictable factor.... I suppose it's the last to go.†   (source)
  • The biggest factor in that change was the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, for men in the North felt that the South had gone back on its promises, that its intention was to extend slavery all over the United States.†   (source)
  • One factor concerning the organization of the family mystified me very much at first.†   (source)
  • When it came to people, I had forgotten the human factor.†   (source)
  • The key factor lay in one word: suspicion.†   (source)
  • All had something to do with Mayor Mullen's Time-Product-Factor.†   (source)
  • Its establishment had taken twenty years and some billions of Pounds Decimal-a relatively trivial factor, therefore, of the world's total wealth.†   (source)
  • Now, the critical factor in warfare was time, measured in minutes or seconds.†   (source)
  • (He rises and walks back towards RICH) So that becomes the constant factor†   (source)
  • The old demon, white guilt, could control me for a while, but one factor in the composition of Mrs. Brown's personality was beginning to come clear in my mind, and the more clear it became, the nearer I was to establishing a liberating, important universal truth: because a person is black does not mean that he or she thinks black or is proud to be black.†   (source)
  • He'd been very clear on other occasions that my safety was the only factor.†   (source)
  • Underneath that disbelief, I could see right away that this was the critical factor.†   (source)
  • Her scheme, worked out as we went along, turned out to be the second positive factor.†   (source)
  • Plus there was the being-in-a-band factor.†   (source)
  • You see, the myth rides with him, that's the hypnotic factor.†   (source)
  • And he would be an enormous risk factor.†   (source)
  • They were both curious people, and curiosity might have been the factor.†   (source)
  • And who's to decide when holding out for the Whole Truth is warranted by the Truth-Product-Factor?†   (source)
  • His chest exam, heart exam, and ECG are normal, and his systolic blood pressure is 165, meaning it doesn't qualify as an urgent factor.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's the obvious creep factor.†   (source)
  • That is the Stickiness Factor.†   (source)
  • There was an X factor.†   (source)
  • The creators of Sesame Street accomplished something extraordinary, and the story of how they did that is a marvelous illustration of the second of the rules of the Tipping Point, the Stickiness Factor.†   (source)
  • Plus, there's the whole rebound factor.†   (source)
  • The islands were entering the hurricane season, so the weather was not astonishing, it was merely a delaying factor.†   (source)
  • There's also the attention factor.†   (source)
  • And just what are they for other than waking a body up singing in the shower like he's on the bleeding X Factor?†   (source)
  • The organized crime factor.†   (source)
  • There was an additional factor.†   (source)
  • The puke factor.†   (source)
  • The puke factor.†   (source)
  • Time Product Factor.†   (source)
  • Not really a motivating factor, if you know what I mean.†   (source)
  • So in reality a third factor causes them both.†   (source)
  • The uncertainty factor touched him with wonder.†   (source)
  • "That's because Alice didn't factor in Seth Clearwater," I said politely.†   (source)
  • f_factor, the delight we feel at recognizing a familiar component from earlier experience.†   (source)
  • "The finest Mentats have a healthy respect for the error factor in their computations," she said.†   (source)
  • A decisive factor in Lyell's theory was the age of the earth.†   (source)
  • Was that what was going on, the mystery factor that was bonding the two of them?†   (source)
  • But the Stickiness Factor suggests something quite different.†   (source)
  • And for the first time she sensed, without understanding it, the uncertainty factor in Paul's gift.†   (source)
  • The Stickiness Factor SESAME STREET, BLUE'S CLUES, AND THE EDUCATIONAL VIRUS.†   (source)
  • Factor my dad into the equation, though, and things changed.†   (source)
  • It was the single greatest limiting factor a tactician could be handed.†   (source)
  • What is the only factor that can save you when the load is too heavy?†   (source)
  • Time's the interesting factor, isn't it?†   (source)
  • "You passed a sleaze-factored muster, Judge," he said to Prefontaine.†   (source)
  • But Mike would tell me—if put to him flatly: Was or was not this one factor in odds?†   (source)
  • That shouldn't factor in to an ethical decision, of course.†   (source)
  • But considering the reputation factor, divorce will never happen.†   (source)
  • It adds a sympathy and romance factor in the public awareness.†   (source)
  • You didn't factor that in to the mix, did you, Lieutenant?†   (source)
  • And I can understand you not wanting the triple M-factor knowing everything.†   (source)
  • One factor to look for would be a correlation between each state's abortion rate and its crime rate.†   (source)
  • What's his stability factor, his record?†   (source)
  • The Greed Factor, Again That, and asking instead of demanding.†   (source)
  • The envy factor can be leaned toward a female.†   (source)
  • Special guns for special people, another recognition factor, the armaments consistent.†   (source)
  • She held her breath, fighting the puke factor, and picked up a bag.†   (source)
  • He experienced what he would later describe as "a major pucker factor" setting in.†   (source)
  • Was there something I was missing In the whole picture, some factor I didn't quite dig?†   (source)
  • But a man like Boyle ..."The Truth-Product-Factor," he said aloud.†   (source)
  • With pharmaceuticals on the other hand, the expense was a helpful factor since it not only kept my habit in control but provided an excellent reason for me to go downstairs and sell furniture every day.†   (source)
  • And then, on the spur of the moment, Van Riper's field commanders attacked, and all of a sudden what Blue Team thought was a routine "kitchen fire" was something they could not factor into their equations at all.†   (source)
  • But the factor that most directly contributed to the Count's good humor was the double bravo from Emile.†   (source)
  • The only thing that keeps these things from taking over the world is the Babel factor-the walls of mutual incomprehension that compartmentalize the human race and stop the spread of viruses.†   (source)
  • But we do know that there is an anomaly on Hyperion which they have not been able to factor into their predictive analyses.†   (source)
  • Mad Max they were calling me, or Max Factor, or this one butthead in L.D. class called me Maxi Pad, until I persuaded him otherwise.†   (source)
  • But in all likelihood, a greater factor in the difference between the two rooms was their provenance.†   (source)
  • Scientists use something called a correlation to measure how closely one factor predicts another, and overall, the students' ratings correlated with the experts' ratings by .55, which is quite a high correlation.†   (source)
  • Even with the best sim control...they got the FORCE OCS:HTN network involved...you can't factor all variables successfully.†   (source)
  • factor again.†   (source)
  • Warp factor nine!†   (source)
  • If these patients also get well, there has to be a third factor—such as the belief that the medicine works, and has cured them.†   (source)
  • The daughter the Bene Gesserit wanted—it wasn't to end the old Atreides-Harkonnen feud, but to fix some genetic factor in their lines.†   (source)
  • These three agents of change I call the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, and the Power of Context.†   (source)
  • Sherman took the paw THE STICKINESS FACTOR print and moved it toward Walker and Anna, wiggling it as she did.†   (source)
  • The three rules of the Tipping Point — the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, the Power of Context — offer a way of making sense of epidemics.†   (source)
  • The Law of the Few, which I talked about in the previous chapter, says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.†   (source)
  • What they found, surprisingly, was that the one factor above all else that predicted helping behavior was how many witnesses there were to the event.†   (source)
  • But there is a third, less obvious, factor here, which has to do with the last of the principles of epidemics.†   (source)
  • If we didn't know about the Stickiness Factor, we probably would conclude that something was wrong with the way the booklet explained tetanus to the students.†   (source)
  • The Stickiness Factor says that there are specific ways of making a contagious message memorable; there are relatively simple changes in the presentation and structuring of information that can make a big difference in how much of an impact it makes.†   (source)
  • We carry it in our muscles and genes, pass it on to the next set of time-factoring creatures, our brown-eyed daughters and jug-eared sons, or how would the world keep going.†   (source)
  • He was right about the entertainment factor; oddly, for we all had legs, the situation reminded me of the See Weeds.†   (source)
  • And the factor that seemed to move his proposal from risky to toxic was not American infrastructure, or the market for American-made goods, or the competition from China.†   (source)
  • It's difficult to avoid the conclusion that the critical factor for saving mothers is access to doctors in an emergency.†   (source)
  • If one looks at these persons we agree are 'great' butlers, if one looks at, say, Mr Marshall or Mr Lane, it does seem to me that the factor which distinguishes them from those butlers who are merely extremely competent is most closely captured by this word 'dignity'.†   (source)
  • It was the waist-high factor that had Fox and Layla stopping on the front deck, and Fox going to work with the shovel Cal had shoved into his hands on their way out.†   (source)
  • That's column A. Then we need to see whether any other aggravating factor fits from column B. Like, the youth of the victim—that works for Elizabeth, right?†   (source)
  • Taggart's voice still retained a practiced smoothness, but it was the smoothness of a piece of cloth stretched tight over a broken glass object, and the sharp edges showed through once in a while: "I think it is generally conceded that the main factor affecting every railroad in the country is the unusual rate of business failures.†   (source)
  • She said what was on her mind—at the moment, an obsession with glow-in-thedark cats they were engineering in Japan (she wanted one for the cute factor, but more so for the geek factor)—and then said even more about what was on her mind.†   (source)
  • He had been transformed to a little blip on the horizon, a minor perturbation factor in her existence.†   (source)
  • The humiliation factor multiplies.†   (source)
  • Factor in personality of suspect.†   (source)
  • the nudge factor,†   (source)
  • So—there is an evident, self-conscious class factor in how people wish their speech to be perceived.†   (source)
  • I reached for the tube of sunblock, protection factor fifteen, a thing I keep nearby even though I'm olive-skinned, dark as my father was.†   (source)
  • Still, the chances were five hundred to one that even a shot aimed with murderous intent would not be live and the safety factor increased still higher because the recruit probably couldn't shoot that well anyhow.†   (source)
  • I was chilling with them, surrounded by prisoners who were crocheting industriously, watching Fear Factor with their headsets on, or just talking.†   (source)
  • I'll call the kennels and talk Pentagonese-the general's being flown to a hush-factor post and we pay double for getting the animals out first thing in the morning.†   (source)
  • I ran in dense heat and strong light and I thought about the protection factor bumping up to sixty now, I wondered about this even though I'm olive-skinned, dark as my old man—from fifteen to thirty to sixty, where once upon a time a factor fifteen was the absolute maximum sunblock scientifically possible.†   (source)
  • The main factor that separates me from my friends here is the opportunities I was given as a first-world citizen, and I believe it is my responsibility to work so that these opportunities are available to all.†   (source)
  • I suck at math—like really, really suck, so tell me if I have this wrong, but it seems like the only factor that goes into the formula is where each person fits on the Dumper/Dumpee scale, right?†   (source)
  • He has come to believe that morale is a big factor—that an office is more honest when the employees like their boss and their work.†   (source)
  • But then, as I indicated, Lord Darlington himself suggested that the silver might have been at least a small factor in the change in his guest's mood that evening, and it is perhaps not absurd to think back to such instances with a glow of satisfaction.†   (source)
  • From her speech and her writing, and despite her passion for Fear Factor, I could tell that Allie was better educated than most prisoners.†   (source)
  • A player's trivia-answering ability is presumably the only worthwhile factor to consider; race, gender, and age wouldn't seem to matter.†   (source)
  • The Roarke factor adds a gold edge.†   (source)
  • And the more I considered it, the more obvious it became that Miss Kenton, with her great affection for this house, with her exemplary professionalism — the sort almost impossible to find nowadays — was Just the factor needed to enable me to complete a fully satisfactory staff plan for Darlington Hall.†   (source)
  • He's our economic ally, a politically stabilizing factor in the largest nation on earth that's ideologically opposed to us!†   (source)
  • Because a gun raises a complex set of issues that change according to one factor: whose hand happens to be holding the gun.†   (source)
  • McAllister, of course, went farther, emphasizing the organized crime factor which is all too true, but a sensitive issue I'd prefer not to bring up.†   (source)
  • Another study has shown that low maternal education is the single most powerful factor leading to criminality.†   (source)
  • C. J. then gave an overview of the situation, telling the general about the monkeys in Reston, and finishing with these words: "I'd say we have a major pucker factor about the virus in those monkeys."†   (source)
  • It comprises an extraordinarily powerful and flexible set of tools that can reliably assess a thicket of information to determine the effect of any one factor, or even the whole effect.†   (source)
  • What we really want to do is measure two children who are alike in every way except one—in this case, the number of books in their homes—and see if that one factor makes a difference in their school performance.†   (source)
  • All told, the crash of the crack market accounted for roughly 15 percent of the crime drop of the 1990s—a substantial factor, to be sure, though it should be noted that crack was responsible for far more than 15 percent of the crime increase of the 1980s.†   (source)
  • "steadfast," men who want themselves to be the constant factor in the situation; which, of course, they can't be.†   (source)
  • And then grant the possibility that he had utilized this factor while Senator Brockden was still lying awake, worrying.†   (source)
  • The taste of the mice — a purely subjective factor and not in the least relevant to the experiment — was pleasing, if rather bland.†   (source)
  • The things for which we were writing programs in this area were, basically, estimates and approximates, vis-à-vis that which got registered, a reconciliation factor included.†   (source)
  • Epidemic disease is the overriding factor which ensures that, even if other controlling factors fail to operate, the wolf population will not become too large for the capacity of the prey animals to maintain it.†   (source)
  • And then the politicians get into it, with their talk about the Productive Time Factor and Public Relations, not to mention the relatives they want to give jobs ...and yet all the citizens, the newspapers expect ...†   (source)
  • Pressure is a powerful factor.†   (source)
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