Sentences with phrase «for a needle in a haystack when»

«It's like looking for a needle in a haystack when the haystack contains many other things that resemble a needle,» says Alfred Mann of the University of Pennsylvania, a former member of the Los Alamos team who supervised the dissenting physicist's PhD.

Am I crazy in thinking this person is looking for a needle in a haystack when looking for a 1031 Trade?

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Buying wine is much easier when you stop looking for that one vineyard like a needle in a haystack, and instead start looking for two words on the back of the bottle: «Imported By.»

A benefit of using sophisticated neural networks, the researchers noted, is that they can identify features that weren't even sought in the initial experiment, like finding a needle in a haystack when you weren't even looking for it.

Pain can be a real needle in a haystack, but a good doctor will not give up when looking for the cause.

I've discovered that many Jewish singles may be looking for that needle in a haystack, when what they've really wanted all along was the thumbtack that was hidden nearby.

They were obvious when my colleagues and I first studied U.S. teacher evaluation systems in the early 1980s.1 As part of a Rand Corporation study, Arthur Wise, Milbrey McLaughlin, Harriet Bernstein, and I searched the country for effective evaluation systems and found ourselves rummaging for the proverbial needle in a haystack.

And when it comes to the proverbial needle - in - the - haystack of scholarly verification for a quotation or citation, Google Books proves itself a handy metal detector, coming up with the missing needle, and then some.