Sentence examples for a plus factor from inspiring English sources

Brilliant writing for newspapers has a plus factor which is hard to define and is not achieved by many.

With Rick Owens, this is especially true, because entropy is built in as a plus factor: the tatters look better with age.

Colleges may still consider minority applicants' race a "plus" factor in admissions as long as they do so in a "flexible, nonmechanical way".

Universities can, however, consider race or ethnicity more flexibly as a "plus" factor in the context of individualized consideration of each and every applicant.

But since diversity, by contrast, is a good for all, there's no earthly reason to ever stop awarding a plus factor to minority students.

Justice Powell's distinction between the medical school's rigid 16-seat quota and Harvard's flexible use of race as a "plus" factor is instructive.

Chronic unemployment is hardly a plus-factor for marriage and family stability.

The weakening dollar is a plus-factor here.

"I've admired Jacob's all-round qualities for some time now and his Twenty20 experience, which he has gained from global competitions, is a major plus factor," added Worcestershire coach Steve Rhodes.

The case, Schuette v Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, does not concern the constitutionality of affirmative-action programmes themselves: the court banned quotas but upheld the use of race as an admissions "plus factor" in Regents v Bakke in 1978, in Grutter v Michigan in 2003 and again, just barely, in last spring's Fisher v University of Texas.

One group/ECM had no growth factors added to chambers whilst the other group had growth factors (GFs) (vascular endothelial growth factor-A (VEGF-A) plus fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2) plus platelet-derived growth factor-BB (PDGF-BB)) added to both chambers.