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That said, Mr Williamson's tendentious comments seem to contain more insight about Mr Giuliani's controversial remarks than do the knee-jerk liberal accusations of race-baiting.Mr Williamson's column usefully emphasises the fact that, for many conservatives, to love America is to insist on the sanitisation of historical fact.
The programmes on Russia's two main television stations, ORT and RTR, offer an unrelieved diet of biased and tendentious coverage, sometimes reminiscent of the Soviet propaganda machine but oiled in the style of western television commercials.
SIX months from polling day, America's election campaign has opened with a blizzard of tendentious commercials, contrived razzamatazz and mind-numbing trivia.
Then, having confessed a failure of sympathy, and having earlier called for restraint in the face of "the seduction of binary thinking", Mr Almond hastens to repeat his team's tendentious good-guy/bad-guy narrative: I'm not trying to soft-pedal the very real pathologies of the modern conservative movement.
The customers who were probably minorities, according to the complaint, paid an interest rate that was up to 0.29 percentage points higher than those who probably were not, adding perhaps $300 to their borrowing costs over the life of the loan.Whether such a tendentious argument would have prevailed in court is unclear.
They fight not so much for particular interests as for causes, giving rise to the tendentious but tactically useful labels, "public-interest groups" and "civil society".
Had he not just argued, in an extremely tendentious fashion, that Hispanic immigrants are, on the whole, parasites, he might have endured public criticism of his dissertation.
The strength of both these books is that they locate the obstacles to Chinese democracy in history, indeed recent history, not in tendentious notions of Chinese character or culture.
A quarter of a century before that, Franklin Roosevelt proposed that every citizen of the world should enjoy 'Freedom from want'.Your choice of China and Cuba to illustrate the relationship between such rights and political freedom is equally tendentious.
Tendentious though the article was, it kept, just, within the bounds of propriety.What did not was Mr Brown's appearance on television a day or so later, telling bewildered viewers how miffed he was not to have been given a place by Mr Blair on Labour's National Executive Committee.
It is surprising that a case based on tendentious and serially anonymous accusations has even got this far.
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The word "tendentious" functions primarily as an adjective . It modifies nouns to describe something characterized by a strong, often controversial point of view or bias. As Ludwig AI shows, it describes comments, articles, arguments and programmes.
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