"Obama continues to maintain a 'home field advantage' in the southern Wisconsin counties that border Illinois, " Holland said.
The Bears are pretty tough, fired up by their home field advantage at, as you said, chilly Soldier Field.
Unlike sports in which the home field advantage is attributed to the officials, the researchers believe psychological factors are at work here.
Home field advantage within CONCACAF is worth about 0.8 goals per match, while home field advantage within UEFA is worth 0.4 goals.
Both claiming home field advantage in the South, Edwards of North Carolina and Clark of Arkansas have staked their candidacies on strong showings in Tuesday's contests.
At CeBIT, SAP should have a home field advantage.
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This would mean home field advantage throughout the playoffs.
But Twitter is testing a home field advantage for Vine, so when you expand a tweet with a Vine video embedded, the media does auto-play, but with the sound defaulted to mute.
The Obama camp, on the other hand, tried to build up the debate as a must-win for the Arizona Republican, arguing that the debate's focus on national security and foreign affairs amounted to a "home field advantage" for McCain.
In states like Mississippi, which respondents to ATRA's survey described as particularly hostile to class-action defendants, local business defendants often have a home-field advantage, whereas other states like New Jersey--home to many of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, and highlighted as a bad place for them to get sued--treat in-state defendants as roughly as out-of-state defendants.
The National League also has the home-field advantage by virtue of its rare All-Star victory.
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Sure enough, this confidence booster helped visiting parties overcome the home-field advantage that the office residents enjoyed.
The home-field advantage induces a systematic bias among financial regulators, especially on crucial issues and at crucial junctures.
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The men scored only one goal in three games in the 2008 Olympics, when they had home-field advantage.
Hosting a major international soccer tournament brings a country a bunch of perks prestige, home-field advantage, the chance to make some money.
The home-field advantage helps explain many troubling aspects of the financial sector.
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The financial sector has a well-disciplined army and a massive home-field advantage.
But the Falcons have a home-field advantage, said tight end Tony Gonzalez.
The most significant factor is losing the home-field advantage throughout the playoffs, which Tampa Bay and Philadelphia have in the first two rounds.
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It had history and home-field advantage on its side, while Chelsea was hamstrung by the absence of four key players, including captain John Terry, through suspension.
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From this perspective, regulatory bias is a natural human manifestation of the current institutional structure of financial regulation in which the financial services industry enjoys a decisive home-field advantage.
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But we had to leave when the building was evacuated for a bomb threat. (It was unrelated to our case.) Our lawyers had emphasized the importance of "home-field advantage" in the deposition.
The money at stake for players in terms of salary, and teams in terms of revenues from pennant chases, is just too great to expect players to risk injury to perform in an exhibition game, regardless of whether home-field advantage in the World Series is on the line.
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