Sentences with phrase «makes finding a needle»

Detecting a bomb in a suitcase makes finding a needle in a haystack look simple.

By DANIEL CLERY Detecting a bomb in a suitcase makes finding a needle in a haystack look simple.

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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.

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.

Make sure your child knows to tell a trusted adult — parent, teacher, police officer — if she finds a needle or syringe.

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.

So making precise policies or building technologies to combat them would be a little like finding a needle in a haystack right now.

They will make the haystack within which the security services must find the terrorist needle even bigger.

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.

Often the diagnosis of malignancy as the etiology of strictures is made based upon findings on cross-sectional imaging, endoscopic ultrasound with fine needle aspiration, and an advanced diagnostic technique known as endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP).

And what makes everything worse is that there is a cornucopia of product options for us to choose from... expensive creams, terrifying needle injections, weird spiky face roller things... By the time you've finally found the right products, you've spent WAY too much money, probably questioned your judgement a few times, and before you know it, your beauty routine takes longer to complete than it takes to watch Gone With The Wind.

POFs website isnt very intuitive, which can make finding that needle in a haystack even more complicated.

«From our experience, it's really hard to find children who can act well,» Unkrich says, «but we had to thread a needle because I needed a Latino boy, I needed him to be a certain age — but since our movies take a long time to make, I couldn't have his voice change on me!

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Almost immediately, the voices of elders he used to know came back to him — spruce needles stick out sharper on the north side of trees; shallow sandbars make the ice buckle — hints about how to find yourself, when the world changed around you.

I also found myself noticing all the technology in the book: every now and then someone tries out the newfangled «shower - bath» with its needle - points of water, or makes a phone call and wonders whether one day there will be devices that transmit pictures as well as voices.

Needle - Green, a redwood dryad who has made the leap from growing sprout to intelligent being, embarks on a journey to find the perfect place to put down permanent roots.

The answer is, in part, that Berkshire has become so large that only very large investments — say, $ 5 billion and up — can move the needle, which means the investment universe is smaller, making it harder for Buffett to find exceptional bargains.

Sedatives may cause a decrease in blood pressure that could make finding and hitting the vein with the needle containing the euthanasia solution more difficult, so the doctor will take everything into account before recommending for or against these pre-medications.

Once descended, simply take your landmark (often the mooring buoy) make your dive, and on the way back, slowly head toward shore while enjoying the shallows where you're likely to find pods of squid and long nose needle fish hovering just below the surface, or the yellow headed jaw fish hiding in the coral rubble.

To make them, Tan puts an LP record (from the labels, they are clearly thrift store finds) on a modest record player, setting its needle into the disc's groove to play.

Google about 287 results found for Mursula «Does sunspot number calibration by the «magnetic needle» make sense?»

It has long been a gold mine of information on public companies in the US, but a very frustrating gold mine... a deep and valuable resource, on the one hand, but on the other, the lack of full - text searching made it hard to find that needle in the haystack.

Making the right decision to hire a great candidate from a large pool of qualified job seekers can often feel like finding a needle in a haystack.

This makes the search for «divorce genes» very challenging, like trying to find needles in a haystack.