The size of a bond to be put as surety 'was influenced by extraneous factors with the result that the bidders were treated inconsistently', the report found.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one, but companies are happy to cite any number of extraneous factors so long as this diverts attention from their own failings.

And that makes sense: they involve a partial but not complete intrusion of extraneous factors into personal decisionmaking.

Extraneous factors related to timing have been found to influence the decisions of judges, financial traders and taxi drivers.

There are no reliable opinion polls, and the result will be influenced by three extraneous factors.

These systems yield the protein of interest without extraneous material attached.

The cells used in culture, virus stocks used, and animal fluids are all screened for extraneous material as part of the vaccine production.

Many extraneous materials are readily removed.

Journalistic writing, particularly for newspapers, focuses only on events being reported, omitting superfluous and extraneous matter.

Many publications thus expanded to six pages, filled the extra space with extraneous matter, and raised their prices to absorb the tax.

Any attempt to extrapolate from the literature resulted in the evaluation not of artistic qualities but of extraneous matters.

Our ski holiday was effectively ruined by a lack of sleep due to constant extraneous noise from the adjacent kitchen/dining area.

To work in open-plan one has to cultivate an invisible carapace that cuts out extraneous noise.

He feels that extraneous noise affects his musical inspiration, and distracts from the purity of the sound.

This multi-channel feature especially helps during moments of extraneous noise such as laughter, shouting, coughing and sneezing.

A further solo concert three days later went undisturbed, following an official announcement beforehand urging the audience to minimize extraneous noise.