horse race
(noun)
An exciting and arduous competition (as in a political campaign).
Examples of horse race in the following topics:
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News Coverage
- American news media emphasizes more than ever the "horse race" aspects of the presidential campaign, according to a new study.
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Rome and the Papal States
- It hosted a great number of popular feasts, horse races, parties, intrigues, and licentious episodes.
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Painting in the Greek High Classical Period
- For example, there is an image believed to depict King Philip II on a chariot pulled by two horses .
- Persephone and Hades create a tension filled chiastic composition, as Hades races to the left, against the pull of Persephone's outward, desperate reach to the right.
- He rides into battle on his horse, Bucephalo, leading his troops.
- Other details in the mosaic include the expressions of the soldiers and horses such as a collapsed horse and his rider in the center of the battle to a terrified fallen Persian, whose expression is reflected on his shield.
- Horses and soldiers are shown in multiple perspectives from profile, to three quarter, to frontal, and one horse even faces the audience with his rump.
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The Atomic Race
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The Space Race
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The Fossil Record and the Evolution of the Modern Horse
- The detailed fossil record of horses has provided insight into their evolutionary progress.
- Highly detailed fossil records have been recovered for sequences in the evolution of modern horses.
- Early horse ancestors were originally specialized for tropical forests, while modern horses are now adapted to life on drier land.
- This means that horses share a common ancestry with tapirs and rhinoceroses.
- This illustration shows an artist's renderings of species derived from fossils of the evolutionary history of the horse and its ancestors.
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Social Definition of Race
- Debates continue in and among academic disciplines as to how race should be understood.
- Following the World War II, alongside empirical and conceptual problems with "race," evolutionary and social scientists were acutely aware of how beliefs about race had been used to justify discrimination, apartheid, slavery, and genocide.
- The social construction of race has developed within various legal, economic, and sociopolitical contexts, and may be the effect, rather than the cause of major race-related issues.
- This map depicts the three great races, according to Meyers Konversationslexikon, of 1885-90.
- The subtypes of the Mongoloid race are shown in yellow and orange tones, those of the Europid race in light and medium grayish green-cyan tones, and those of the Negroid race in brown tones.
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Race and Genetics
- People's understanding of "race" emerged long before we knew anything about genetics.
- There are very few biological differences between the races and there is no "race" gene or set of genes to speak of.
- The relationship between race and genetics has relevance for the ongoing controversies regarding race.
- Rather, race is a social construct and a product of culture, not biology.
- Recall what recent discoveries in genetics has revealed about the concept of race
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The Changing Definitions of Race
- The division of humanity into distinct races can be traced as far back as the Ancient Egyptian sacred text the Book of Gates, which identified four races according to the Egyptians.
- These scientists made three claims about race:
- Races were distinguished by skin color, facial type, cranial profile and size, and texture and color of hair.
- Races were almost universally considered to reflect group differences in moral character and intelligence.
- The United States government has attempted its own definitions of race and ethnicity (see for example U.S.
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Race
- Historically, the concept of race has changed across cultures and eras.
- While biologists sometimes use the concept of race to make distinctions among sets of traits, others in the scientific community suggest that this idea of race is often used in a naive or simplistic way.
- The word "race" was originally used to refer to any nation or ethnic group.
- Contemporary conceptions of race illuminate how far removed modern race understanding is from biological qualities.
- Interpret ''the ideology of race'' based on examples from the text