Sentence examples for double hurdle from inspiring English sources

Still, black Republicans face a double hurdle: black Democrats who are disinclined to back them in a general election, and incongruity with white Republicans, who sometimes do not welcome the blacks whom party officials claim to covet as new members.

At Christie's, Franz Marc's very large "Springende Pferde" (Jumping Horses) painted in 1910 could easily have stumbled over the double hurdle of its uncharacteristically pale color scheme and its curious throwback to Divisionist brushwork.

But by setting up a new double hurdle for union political levy payers to keep the voting rights they already have, the danger is that fewer people will end up having a say than before.

Scientists at the Whitehead Institute have jumped a double hurdle in the race to cure disease with embryonic stem cells, the all-purpose clay from which the body is sculptured.

After all, as we all know, successful referendums have to pass the double hurdle contained in s128 of the constitution: a "majority of people in a majority of States".

Double hurdle also performs better than standard OLS (Donaldson et al. 1998).

As noted earlier, the double-hurdle model uses two equations: participation and consumption equations.

The double-hurdle model has been previously applied in the area of alcohol and tobacco consumption [1, 13, 33, 35].

Among a number of available estimation procedures, the double-hurdle model proposed by Cragg [10] can be used to account for this non-drinking problem.

The double-hurdle model for the volume of alcohol consumption and the multivariate logistic model for heavy episodic drinking were estimated.

We used the double-hurdle model to not only explore the probability of drinking but also the intensity of alcohol consumption.