Sentence examples for dummy concerns from inspiring English sources

Sullivan recalled, "Until Gilbert took the matter in hand choruses were dummy concerns, and were practically nothing more than a part of the stage setting.

But the cynical clothes-lining of real issues by McCain and Miss Half-Baked Alaska (or more accurately, their handlers, as the candidates themselves possess qualities which would define them less as actual leaders and more as ventriloquist dummies) concerning the recovery of this country's soul is nothing short of treason.

In addition, the small improvement reported for management of pericoronitis was anticipated as this was the dummy question concerning a topic that was not covered by the workshop but was included to test survey reliability [ 23, 24].

A priori beliefs concerning dummy treatments have been rampant throughout history.

During a take, a crosswind sprang up and the drag caused by the dummies left Hughes concerned that she would lose control of the Tiger Moth if it were to hit the ground.

We used these measures to construct a dummy variable indicating any financial concern (1 = yes; 0 = no) and as a summed count of financial concerns (range: 0 7).

With respect to Mexico and Canada, the t-test shows that the coefficient results for the first dummy variable (not at all concerned vs. slightly concerned) are not significant.

Yoshihiro Ozawa, an engineer whose company, Jasti Ltd. in Japan, has been making crash dummies for 20 years, raised similar concerns.

Categorical variables were transformed into dummy variables to avoid any assumption concerning the estimation of the relative risks between subgroups.

As our analysis concerns several PSID waves, year dummy variables are also used.

Items were coded similarly to financial concerns; again, we constructed a dummy variable for any non-financial barrier (1 = yes; 0 = no) and a summed count of barriers (range: 0 7).