Beard presents a plausible picture of gradual development from a community of warlords to an urban centre with complex political institutions, institutions which systematically favoured the interests of the upper classes yet allowed scope for the votes of the poor to carry weight.
In one group, the worm systematically favoured the incumbent, Gordon Brown, over the other two candidates.
The European commission has formally accused Google of abusing its market dominance by systematically favouring its own online comparison shopping service.
In April, a long-running antitrust investigation came to a head when the newly installed EU competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, formally accused Google of abusing its market dominance by systematically favouring its shopping price-comparison service.
The commission's competition policy chief, Margrethe Vestager, launched a full-scale legal attack on Google in April, accusing the company of abusing its market dominance by systematically favouring its shopping price comparison service.
A suspicion thus gains ground that the way in which the IPCC sythesises, generalises and checks its findings may systematically favour adverse outcomes in a way that goes beyond just serving the needs of policymakers.
Last month, the European competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager – who is cementing her reputation as one of the toughest politicians in Europe – talked about the commission's preliminary conclusion "that Google has abused its dominant position by systematically favouring its comparison shopping service in its search result pages" as part of a statement of objection to the web search giant.
ICOMP, which is no fan of Google and lists arch-rival Microsoft as one of its supporters, puts the threat like this: "Google stands accused of manipulating its search results to systematically favour its own services and demote or exclude those of its rivals, thereby diverting vast quantities of traffic and revenues away from competitors and to its own growing stable of competing services".
As a consequence, the authors systematically favour in this paper transfers from cells to viruses to explain the origin of NCLDV ligases.
We have chosen to calculate Bayes Factors using thermodynamic integration [ 24], since the traditional harmonic mean estimator of the marginal likelihood systematically favours parameter-rich models and is hence unfit to compare these complex context-dependent models.
Third, external intervention may be necessary when individual or collective actions and decisions of non-government health system actors systematically favour (e.g. high-income members) or exclude (e.g. ethnic minority members) certain members of the community (McCoy et al. 2012).
