Sentence examples for poor platform from inspiring English sources

Women like Harriet Harman have worked so hard, for themselves and for other women, at Westminster, but being forced to fight under men's rules that dictate confrontation and polarisation is bad for politics and a poor platform for women.

This year's shortlist was a poor platform for Stuckist protests, with Glenn Brown working in oil on canvas with a technique described as "old masterly", and Michael Raedecker's delicate figurative landscapes in paint and embroidery.

Calling for a mainstream economic policy, he wrote in The Independent: "Both positions rest on little proper analysis or argument, and so both would be a poor platform for any aspiring Labour government".

To make matters worse, social media is a poor platform for getting people to understand opposing views.

Broadstuff notes that a company called Serena found its existing intranet was a poor platform for document finding, much less sharing, hence the Facebook move.

He has been campaigning on a pro-poor platform and says he wants to reduce unemployment, creating new jobs on farms.

Moreover, studies comparing data originating from different microarray platforms have reported poor inter-platform correlations (Kuo et al, 2002; Tan et al, 2003).

The company, and the Walton family that owns it, in 2012 largely donated to political candidates with poor environmental platforms.

It is also important to note that because of differences between the two platforms [e.g., non-overlapping nucleotide sequences for the same transcript targets as well as different hybridization conditions for the 1.5K and 24K assays (as described above)], direct comparisons of the raw intensities will yield seemingly poor cross-platform correlations.

Although important, gene signatures have many issues as descriptors - for instance, loss of specificity in validation studies with an increased number of samples [ 10], generally poor cross-platform compatibility (Amsterdam and Rotterdam signatures virtually do not overlap in gene content), lack of mechanistic (functional) correlation with phenotype, etc.

We used relatively strict filter-thresholds in our analyses, including conservative detection p-values to limit the analysis to clearly expressed genes as a previous meta-analysis approach found low or intermediate expressing genes to have poorer inter-platform reproducibility than highly expressed genes [ 14].