This, I am sure you will agree, is different from trying to influence content before publication.Rob ShipleyDeputy editorJersey Evening PostSt Saviour, JerseyMashing spudsSIR – You praise the potato, but forget its myriad detriments ("Spud we like", March 1st).
This speaks to the continuing consolidation we're seeing in overall smartphone rankings, where brands like Samsung and Apple increasingly dominate in sales, to the detriment of companies like Nokia, HTC, RIM and others.
Moira Buffini's "Dinner," at the National, is a mildly diverting exercise in skewering the rich and shallow that invokes (to its detriment) classic films like "The Rules of the Game" and "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie".
A dawdling pace is always to the detriment of those, like Amazing Maria, held up for a late run, but Doyle took charge of a potentially embarrassing situation, making his move appreciably earlier than originally planned so that suddenly, two furlongs from home, the grey was on the heels of the leaders and in the perfect position to go on and win her race.
Some critics hold responsible what they see as the current emphasis on "critical thinking" at the expense of basic scientific knowledge; others blame innovations like the No Child Left Behind law that focus on reading and math to the detriment of subjects like science.
In 2000, the commission accused Microsoft of stifling competition in the market for media-playing software by bundling its Media Player software into its Windows operating systems, to the detriment of rivals like QuickTime from Apple Computer and RealPlayer from Real Network.
To the north, you have New York, where environmentalists have largely won the war against fracking, possibly to the economic detriment of towns like Conklin.
Studies have shown that empathy is often very preferential to people that we perceive to be "like us" to the detriment of people that we perceive to be "not like us".
Roethlisberger deploys the pump fake so often it sometimes seems like a detriment.
So... does trade sometimes get distorted, to the detriment of a country like ours?
