Some hockey writers speculated a New Jersey player did not win because there were multiple candidates, resulting in a split vote among the sportswriters who selected the winner.
WASHINGTON — The first major overhaul of the nation's nutrition and farm program is in jeopardy because of a split in the ranks of House Republicans over the degree of spending cuts, pitting conservatives who want deeper cuts against moderates and Democrats who think the bill goes far enough at a time of weak economic growth.
Ultimately, Lotta Continua dissolved in 1976 because of a split between members in favor of and against taking up arms.
In 1967, Mr. Ferré formed his own party, the New Progressive Party, and won the governorship in 1968 with a plurality because of a split in the opposition.
I took no notice when, because of a split in management, the Frenchy's stores in our area began to be supplanted by similar but brighter stores, called Guy's Frenchy's — not, as innocent travellers might assume, a Frenchy's for men's clothing which had a misplaced apostrophe but a Frenchy's named for an Acadian from Digby named Guy LeBlanc.
She acknowledged that the society has been wrenched by change in the last few years -- not so much because of a split in the organization over its goals but because of an evolution in the community that has altered the membership.
But the adsorption capacity decreases with increase in adsorbent dose because there is a split in concentration gradient between the concentration of dye in solution and that on the surface of adsorbent [40] (Fig. 5).
An extended pause between rounds because of a split in one of Clay's gloves — some say made purposely by Clay's trainer, Angelo Dundee — helped Clay recover, and in Round 5 he fulfilled his prediction, quickly reducing Cooper's face to a bloody mask.
This is an important flaw of the simulation procedure because once a split is present in the network, it will increase sensitivity (or decrease PPV) of the method, even if the weight of this split is vanishingly small.
The month of January 2010 was excluded in the analysis, because it was a split month as the ED opened on 25 January and before that all patients were seen at the old casualty room.
