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This has biased new mass-transit construction in favor of a very particular kind of project: First identify a highway that’s already extremely congested and where widening it is either politically or logistically impossible.

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2012

Mr. Massey, notwithstanding his rare intuitional faculties and great learning, is one of those writers in whom the intensity of research bent into one direction has biased his otherwise clear understanding.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

Superior physical force is an insidious thing, and has biased the judgment of even good men.

From In Times Like These by McClung, Nellie L.

When I saw him last I was only a boy, and he came with his seraphic face and his divine music to give me an inspiration which has biased my life ever since.

From Cord and Creese by De Mille, James