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Перевод: skewed

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1. The discovery of an animal population with a skewed sex ratio thus triggers a search for an explanation of an unnatural condition.
2. Peasant federations in Costa Rica, a country with a reputation for democratic institutions and relative equality, have been protesting at the surprisingly skewed distribution of land, by seizing unused land belonging to multinationals.
3. Public opinion, though skewed to the right on many issues, has not moved further right between 1979 and 1989, and may actually have moved in a contrary direction.
4. With payment by results, in the absence of an answer, GP pay is going to be skewed.
5. This is another skewed reality, of course, for in their pursuit of the "prig" they are merely following a version of justice which depends on blind acquiescence to establishment values of honesty.
6. So that now, with the dubious benefit of hindsight and a keen awareness that memory and retrospective versions of reality are often skewed, I feel the subjective account must of necessity become part of the ethnography in which I play all of the parts.
7. ASK Vic Reeves to describe his sense of humour and you get an answer which sums up his offbeat, skewed vision of the world.
8. Africa's trade in cereals was seriously skewed.
9. In this setting the qualitative was constantly under evaluation at the expense of the quantitative measure, for the "wise" amongst us who were present knew that the statistical return often gives a skewed version of complex social events, although it speaks volumes about the way our systems of control are generated and maintained.
10. The chair had spun out of the central track along the ridge and was now skewed at the precipitous edge of what would be a steep and stony career.
11. Some months later, they relented, thought twice, listened to some extra argument about how every jury is skewed in that two or three of its number are not over 65, and, as such, does not express itself as a cross-section of the populace.
12. Would this strengthen the case for a set of offences skewed towards the prosecution?
13. Eventually they joined forces with other graduates sharing the same skewed sense of humour, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and an American-born cartoonist and graphic artist, Terry Gilliam; and on Sunday 5 October 1969 (incongruously enough, in a scheduling slot which had always been rigorously reserved for programmes of a religious cast) the very first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was broadcast.