Sentences with phrase «for finding a needle»

If the Internet is good for anything — and, actually, it's good for lots of things — it's good for finding a needle in a haystack.

As for finding a needle in a haystack, if one is wiling to discard enough proxies, one can always find some data set that appears to emulate climatic variance.

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(On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control even released a report finding that new hepatitis C infection rates tripled between 2010 and 2015, in large part driven by needle - sharing among heroin addicts.)

For finding that «needle in a haystack» key, the miner gets a reward of 25 newly generated bitcoins.

Founded by Marney Reid, Stilettos on the Glass Ceiling (SOTGC) was created to help move the needle forward for women in business.

Cat videos and television programs on Hulu, for example, produce pleasure for Web surfers — so shouldn't economists find a way to value such intangible activity, whether or not it moves the needle of the gross domestic product?

«For us to move the needle, we do have to find small wins and take hundred - million - dollar ones, but we have to also be looking for where are the billion - dollar opportunities,» CEO Cornell said in an interview last monFor us to move the needle, we do have to find small wins and take hundred - million - dollar ones, but we have to also be looking for where are the billion - dollar opportunities,» CEO Cornell said in an interview last monfor where are the billion - dollar opportunities,» CEO Cornell said in an interview last month.

At a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee — which sought to explore «bug bounty» programs that reward hackers for finding holes — Democrats and Republicans alike needled the ride - hailing company for withholding information even as it faced a federal investigation for its privacy and security practices.

Finding the right money manager can be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

On the other hand, the image of some large beast passing through a needle's eye, as a piquant figure for something impossible, is found in other ancient Near Eastern sources, and the vastly preponderant weight of textual evidence still favors the contortionist dromedary over the elastic hawser.

For one thing, drug addicts have probably found all the lake isles already and littered them with used needles, as they've done to the parks, and they may still be there, along with the child molesters.

I'm a T1 for 48 years and finding low - carb sugar free recipes is like looking for a needle in a haystack — where there's no needle.

Divers have found a profusion of knife blades, ivory combs, needles, crucifixes and religious medals — items that were obviously made in the Old World for trade in the New.

For small fish, make your hooks from the smallest steel needles of square section that you can find, in this way: Put the needle in a red charcoal fire until it is as red as the fire.

Although trying to figure out who, exactly, those players may be is basically like trying to find a needle in a haystack, the authoritative nature of the report should at least come as a relief to a fanbase that has been clamoring for some kind of transfer news.

So for many of us men trying to find a real decent Normal woman today has really become very impossible unfortunately for us since it is like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

These little fabric storage buckets from Astrid Weigel are perfect for finding homes for stray knitting needles and paint brushes — most importantly they will make your desks and sideboards look fabulous.

Attempting to buy a baby monitor is a bit like trying to find a needle in a haystack; with so many different models on the market, knowing which one is best suited for your family can be a difficult and overwhelming task at best.

I watched in horror as he screamed while they poked him over and over again with the needle in attempts to find a vein for the IV.

The extra padding on her back makes it harder for the anesthesiologist to find that epidural sweet spot where the needle should go.

This makes it difficult for even the most skilled anesthesiologist to find the correct epidural space where the needle and catheter should be inserted.

finding out cons for this stroller is like finding a needle in a haystack.

I tried my best to find the needle but was not successful which a big plus for this product.

Iain Lobban replies that they're trying to gather hay to «find the needles or fragments of needles» they're looking for, while «not intruding on the surrounding hay.»

That argument appears to have faded for now with the death of the Republican health care reform effort, but the congressman has found a new issue with which to needle the governor.

There are 29 sites throughout the county where citizens can dispose of prescription medications and used needles, to find a location nearest you please click the map for the Sheriff's Office locations or you can call 716-472-1998 for more information.

«Now that you're looking for these needles in a haystack, you start finding a lot of other needles that you didn't want to find, like variability in manufacturing or slight lot - to - lot differences in the controls that you purchased,» says Bramlett.

«[O] ne group of researchers [has launched] a crowdsourcing initiative,» called Mark2Cure, to help researchers «find those needle - in - haystack connections» in the rapidly growing biomedical literature «by harnessing the efforts of lay volunteers who will scan papers for key terms to help create a powerful searchable database,» Esther Landhuis wrote in a Thursday ScienceInsider.

To find the needle in a galaxy - size haystack, SETI workers are counting on the consistently exponential growth of computing power to continue for another couple of decades.

«Less prostate cancer screening may delay treatment for earlier onset cancers: More advanced cancers are being found in fewer needle biopsies, say investigators.»

«This has been like looking for a needle in a haystack, but instead we found a crowbar,» said co-leader Clem Pryke (University of Minnesota).

«There are only 1000 tiny cells in 1 cubic centimetre of sediment, so finding just one is literally like hunting for a needle in a haystack.»

«One particularly important aspect was to find a suitable coating for the needle, to prevent fouling by cell material,» comments Guillaume - Gentil.

We can find small numbers of cancer cells in blood, which really is like searching for a needle in a haystack.»

There are over 1,300 potential genes that can lead to disease and, as such, finding the genetic cause is sometimes like looking for a needle in a haystack.»

A search for items listed as «ivory» throws up a multitude of items — including ivory - coloured wedding dresses — making the task of tracking down illegal products akin to finding a needle in a haystack.

Since mass production is the eventual goal, researchers had to find ways to deal with misaligned and / or metallic CNTs without having to hunt for them like needles in a haystack.

«Getting a close look at these droplets is like looking through a straw to find a penny somewhere on the floor of a room — and if that penny moves out of view, like the tip of the molten salt needles do — then you have to start searching for it all over again.»

«Finding tumor DNA in the blood is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

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.

Not unlike looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack, a team of Michigan State University researchers have found a gene that could be key to the development of stem cells — cells that can potentially save millions of lives by morphing into practically any cell in the body.

Searching for needle sewing embroidery finds only documents that contain all three words — about 37,000 documents.

For instance, searching for needle sewing finds only documents that contain both the words needle and sewing — about 145,000 documenFor instance, searching for needle sewing finds only documents that contain both the words needle and sewing — about 145,000 documenfor needle sewing finds only documents that contain both the words needle and sewing — about 145,000 documents.

In this information age, national security analysts often find themselves searching for a needle in a haystack.

The researchers think these instances of introgressive hybridization — a way for genetic material and, potentially, traits to be passed from one species to another through interspecific mating — are only the first of many needles waiting to be found in a very large genetic haystack.

«Trying to find a single causative gene for diseases with a complex genetic background is like looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack,» says Lea Davis, PhD, of the section of Genetic Medicine at the University of Chicago, co-corresponding author of the PLOS Genetics report.

«It's like searching for the proverbial needle in the haystack to find one clone that contained the resistance gene,» Gill said.

The trouble until now was that there was no single screening test or system that could quickly sort through 20,000 genes, find the 15 needles in a haystack, and report out that data for each patient's case in an easy - to - read and simple report.

The people who showed a strong preference for their own group in this test also tended to show the least empathy when the hand belonging to the other group was needled, the researchers found.

Wash and dry the salmon with paper towels Run your hands over the salmon and feel for any bones; if found, pull out with your fingertips or with a pair of clean, needle - nose pliers.