The gun goes off, and she's not even an underdog.

We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.

It has also referred to a desire to avoid feared bandwagon or underdog effects on the electorate.

Even if conducted in a fair and objective manner, such polls can influence voters through the bandwagon and underdog effects.

In its judgement, it referred to a study which allegedly demonstrates that a public opinion poll may encourage voters to move toward a candidate with a stronger chance of winning (so called bandwagon effect ), or may add sympathy votes to the underdog (so called underdog effect ), thereby distorting the will of voters.

But the under underdog hangs tough, and 22 miles into a 26 mile race, there is Derartu Tulu up there with the lead pack.

We also note that the alleged bandwagon and underdog effects are mutually contradictory, and further stress the unusually long period of 23 days required by the law.

Paula Radcliffe, the one person who is sure to snatch the big paycheck out of Derartu Tulu's under underdog hands, suddenly grabs her leg and starts to fall back.

My mother claimed divided loyalty, because Belgium, after all, was the David against the mighty Goliath. Her three American children all weighed in simultaneously, pointing out that in soccer it is the US that is the underdog.

The Constitutional Court's reasoning is based primarily on an unsubstantiated academic theory (the bandwagon and underdog effects) and cannot be invoked to deprive the author of his right to freedom of expression and provision of information based on such an uncertain theory .

Historically squeezed between its two giant neighbors, China and Japan, South Korea had long been perceived as an underdog with a fuzzy cultural identity. In Asia, however, Japan s leaders are not waiting for the Seoul summit to take a closer look at South Korea.