Sentence examples for handedness from inspiring English sources

If they could, they then captured the insect so as not to follow it again on another occasion.Dr Goulson found, as he reports in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, that two short-tongued bumblebee species which live in the area, Bombus lucorum and Bombus wurflenii, demonstrated handedness when they robbed flowers.

They are of a type known as massive chiral fermions.Chirality refers to "handedness", in that the left hand is the chiral opposite of the right hand.

Drug molecules with the wrong handedness will not fit the shape of the space they are aimed at.

The difference between left and right carries more meaning to human beings than mere matters of handedness and symmetry.

And the same competitive advantage is enjoyed by left-handers in other sports, such as tennis and cricket.The orthodox view of human handedness is that it is connected to the bilateral specialisation of the brain that has concentrated language-processing functions on the left side of that organ.

(Because of the peculiar way vertebrate brains are wired up, it is the left hemisphere that controls right-wagging, and vice versa as is the case for handedness in people).

Although there are barriers to achieving effective system leadership – the pressures of balancing the books, the need for a different approach to training and development of future leaders, the heavy-handedness of regulation – there is optimism in our report.

Some Chinese intellectuals have questioned whether the government's heavy-handedness in Tibet will bring about long-lasting stability.

It all made sense then: the streamers, balloons and pumping music of his rallies; the ruthlessness and single-handedness; the lack of confidants, save staffers who called him "Leader"; the crowd-pleasing policies, and the crowd abjuring ways.

Like Vietnam, the Philippines would have liked ASEAN to throw its weight behind a strong statement of concern about China's high-handedness.

Some of Mr Harper's critics are also affronted by his high-handedness in not bothering to call on the governor-general personally to ask for prorogation, as tradition demands, but instead making his request by telephone.