What's the difference between advantage and gerrymander?
Advantage
Definition:
(n.) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.
(n.) Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over.
(n.) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
(n.) Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
(v. t.) To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(2) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
(3) In case of isolated damage of deep flexor tendon of the II-V fingers at the level of the I zone there were made palliative operations of 12 fingers: tenodesis and arthrodesis of distal interphalangeal articulation in functionally advantageous position.
(4) Precipitin tests had considerable advantages over other methods of serological diagnosis of influenza.
(5) Combined hypertension treatment with inhibitors of the converting enzyme (ICE) and diuretocs gives manifold advantages, the most important of them is a synergistic action of both drugs resulting in blood pressure decrease and prevention of hypokaliaemia.
(6) When given chronically over 6 weeks the advantages of adding benserazide (50 mg kg-1 day-1) to levodopa (40 mg kg-1 day-1) were less marked and although more dopamine was present in the striatum than with levodopa given alone (200 mg kg-1 day-1) there was no evidence of any increase in its metabolites (HVA and DOPAC) and therefore of its turnover and utilisation.
(7) Examination of the pharmacokinetic profile of acitretin reveals its main advantage over etretinate.
(8) The greatest advantages of spinal QCT for noninvasive bone mineral measurement lie in the high precision of the technique, the high sensitivity of the vertebral trabecular measurement site, and the potential for widespread application.
(9) This article discusses the advantages, clinical uses, limitations, and legal aspects of this mydriatic antagonist in optometric practice.
(10) Several technical advantages of this method of fusion make this approach particularly useful in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
(11) While the mouse P388 cells were sensitive to OP in vitro, no effect was seen when OP was administered in vivo, even when schedules designed to take advantage of OP's time-dependent toxicity were used.
(12) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
(13) To this end, a meiosis-defective mating-type mutation was used as a marker for the plus segment, by taking advantage of its suppressibility by a nonsense suppressor.
(14) Structurally altered polymorphic variants with reduced activity, such as tetrameric interface mutant Ile-58 to Thr, may produce not only an early selective advantage, through enhanced cytotoxicity of tumor necrosis factor for virus-infected cells, but also detrimental effects from increased mitochondrial oxidative damage, contributing to degenerative conditions, including diabetes, aging, and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
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(16) In the UK, George Osborne used this to his advantage, claiming "Britain faces the disaster of having its international credit rating downgraded" even after Moody's ranked UK debt as "resilient".
(17) Advantages over other modes of treatment are discussed.
(18) Both targets were found more quickly in the high-probability location than in the other locations, but the advantage associated with targets in the high-probability location was larger for the inducing target than for the test target.
(19) When foods such as dairy products contain large numbers of egg yolk-negative strains of S. aureus, the PPSA agar has the advantage over egg yolk containing media such as Baird-Parker agar that fewer suspect colonies have to be confirmed.
(20) Survival ranged from 2 to 20 M, with a median survival time of 6 M. Tolerance to the subsequent CT, normal tissue reaction to accelerated RT, and the theoretical advantage of accelerated RT over conventional RT for SCCL were evaluated.
Gerrymander
Definition:
(v. t.) To divide (a State) into districts for the choice of representatives, in an unnatural and unfair way, with a view to give a political party an advantage over its opponent.
Example Sentences:
(1) But, according to Ruddick, the state council is a “gerrymander”, with factional leaders creating new “on-paper” branches that meet at most once a year in order to elect a delegate to state council and keep hold of “the numbers” – presenting Liberal reformers with exactly the same structural impediment to change as is faced by Labor.
(2) Some years earlier, Dr Stone also began the process that culminated in the fall of Dame Shirley Porter in the Westminster gerrymandering scandal.
(3) The national dialogue did express support for a "fairer" electoral system but there are no plans to change constituency boundaries or other mechanisms that preserve Sunni control: one Shia constituency has 15 times as many voters as a small Sunni one – classic gerrymandering.
(4) It is certainly true that in a system where seats are openly gerrymandered, 40% in the upper house can block almost anything, lobbyists are everywhere and you need vast sums of money to get elected there is a limit to how much progressive change one can really expect .
(5) This is particularly true in America, where constituencies are openly gerrymandered , both parties are funded by big money, and legislation is often written by corporate lobbyists.
(6) Even if the NLD wins a large percentage of the 664 parliamentary seats, the USDP, meaning the military, will automatically retain 25% of them under the terms of the junta’s gerrymandered constitution.
(7) And voter-ID laws are much easier for the average person to understand than, say, computer-assisted gerrymandering .
(8) David Cameron’s disgraceful gerrymanders, not just on boundaries, include a new-style electoral register, knocking off millions of mostly Labour voters.
(9) As for the gerrymandering allegations, he said he did not even attend the meeting in Keighley on Friday to choose Ukip council candidates where this supposedly took place.
(10) 7) Corbyn attacks the Tories for “gerrymandering” by trying to change parliamentary boundaries for the next election.
(11) Any commentator who speaks of “Ireland” (26 counties thereof) gaining “independence” (sic) whole ignoring the fact that almost one million of its citizens are now trapped in a gerrymandered United Kingdom statelet in which they want no part of, nor ever wanted, shouldn’t be pontificating on Scottish independence .
(12) Demographic realities will one day betray GOP racial gerrymandering tactics, inevitably making way for a blue state.
(13) Ed Balls: Labour did not deserve to win election Read more “To be frank it is an abuse of power by Theresa May, to gerrymander the electoral system and to stack it against Labour in this way,” the MP for Leicester South told Sky News.
(14) Roadblocks to reform in a shock conversion will look like gerrymandering: a new leader who had always believed in it would be needed to convince voters in a referendum on PR.
(15) As president, Lessig said, his goal would be to simply pass one sweeping piece of legislation to reform the electoral process which would create automatic voter registration, end gerrymandering and radically reform the campaign finance system.
(16) Farage said the final straw came on Friday, when there was a hustings meeting in West Yorkshire “where gerrymandering appears to have taken place”.
(17) Its president, Roger Clegg, who served in senior legal positions in the Reagan and Bush senior administrations, calls the university's policy "racial gerrymandering".
(18) In particular, Balls and chief whip Nick Brown oppose the idea of holding a vote on the same day as the general election, arguing that it will look like gerrymandering, confuse voters and distract from the government's central election message on the economy.
(19) When the changes were announced, Hunt said they were based on outdated electoral data and were “effectively gerrymandering” by the Conservatives.
(20) Under pre-clearance, states including Texas have been blocked from racial gerrymandering by redrawing electoral boundaries in an attempt to create segregated legislative districts.