1.   When small samples are used to estimate population standard deviations, the results are biased in the direction of underestimation.

2.   But as historian Thomas Bailey points out, all presidential ratings, including those handed down by supposedly objective academicians, are biased in one way or another.

3.   He is, he said, simply trying to eliminate a wasteful institution that is biased in such matters as how to treat back pain.

4.   However, subsequent studies determined that the researchers themselves may have been racially biased in determining what they considered to be persuasive evidence.

5.   These were so blatantly biased in its favor that some of the losers, including Alfa Bank, unsuccessfully sued to reverse the auctions.

6.   U.S. officials will have to determine whether the information provided by countries like Syria is biased in an effort to support some Syrian agenda that is not immediately apparent.

7.   A second trial was ordered on grounds that the first panel of judges was biased in his favor.

8.   At another time Richter accused Neoh of being biased in giving evidence.