Sentences with phrase «of ferreting out»

This is when, behind the scenes at Career Trend, a LOT of heavy lifting occurs, hours upon hours of ferreting out nuggets of gold from the worksheet / interview notes to write a crystal - clear resume story that stands apart from all other candidates.

We got a peek at these smarts with iOS 8.4, where Siri correctly played the top songs of 1988 for me, but she now does a great job of ferreting out my photos from Hong Kong — or Thailand, or Pittsburgh, or wherever — when I ask.

The Science Advisor may even have a biased perspective but grounded in the details and capable of ferreting out the nuances and uncertainties.

One of the most compelling feature of any Elder Scrolls game is the challenge of ferreting out all the hidden nooks and crannies as well as nuggets of information and items to find.

And during thousands of interviews with consumers about how they use different products and services and respond to marketing messages, I have honed the craft of ferreting out telltale signs of lies and omissions.

«If clearly posted No Trespassing signs can revoke the right of officers to enter a home's curtilage their job of ferreting out crime will become marginally more difficult,» Gorsuch wrote.

In addition, there were what sports analysts would call «off - the - field» problems like a 2006 «pretexting» scandal in which HP hired private detectives to snoop on reporters in hopes of ferreting out corporate leakers.

Not exact matches

«But believing that this type of search will ferret out an entrepreneur intent on scamming the public is folly.»

ANTHONY DICLEMENTE, EVERCORE ISIS: The extent that YouTube can utilize A.I. to ferret out content that would be unsafe for brands, content that would be kind of inappropriate for children, that is certainly something that YouTube is working on.

The advisor's job will be to ferret out what lurks beneath the surface of such a decision, and to provide counsel to help the client decide on the best approach.

It was up to the buyer to ferret out the conflict - of - interest by itself.

I appreciate that you usually go beyond the headlines to ferret out the reality of the topic at hand.

The task of a Christian feminist, then, will be to ferret out those connections and implications, and, if necessary, criticize and redirect them.

To ferret out what the ethnic church means for civic life, Ecklund knew that she needed a point of comparison.

The new apostate works hard to help the Japanese torturers ferret out hidden Christians, going even beyond the call of duty to uncover a Christian icon that his mentor in apostasy had missed.

Does art graphically illustrate that self - deification which is a bit more difficult to ferret out of the self - glorifying sophistries we call theology (Feuerbach)?

The local godfather whom Baretta ferrets out is seen as the cause of society's ills rather than as a symptom of them.

Not the former, as Ford went on to maintain after the publication of my book, because it succeeds only in ferreting out metaphysical doctrines once held by Whitehead, but ultimately rejected by him in favor of his final metaphysical position (RIWW 50).

The press played a role — though a less significant one than it likes to imagine — in ferreting out the Watergate crimes, and it has never recovered from those moments of glory.

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

Mentality ferrets out only a portion of eternal objects from the welter of physical feeling.

I love those days when I'm digging like a ferret for some kind of food to eat for lunch and something so wonderful comes out of it.

Because if it is, we're tempted to paraphrase Feherty and call Willett the best thing to come out of Yorkshire since ferret legging.

The black - footed ferret, never common, is about to flicker out and die as a species, victim of the poisons that are also wiping out the prairie dogs on which the ferret dines.

And rightly so — I squirmed like a ferret on an anthill as Chelsea ripped the piss out of the Arsenal support two Sundays ago.

The infrequently voting partisan who happens to live among supporters of the other party can be ferreted out.

President Donald Trump called on the «fake news media» to turn its attention to questions of illegal government surveillance and ferreting out the leakers within his administration.

Top officials of the Cuomo administration went to Hoosick Falls Friday to provide an update on their efforts to install water filters and flush out existing water supplies — and ferret out what could be other sources of the chemical in the area's groundwater.

«The system that we have in place in the District Attorney's office is designed to ferret out anybody who has been wrongly accused before the bad result of a wrongful conviction,» said Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita III.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo just unveiled Step One in what will be a multi-pronged reform proposal in the wake of last week's back - to - back corruption cases: Empowering local district attorneys to better ferret out and prosecute wrongdoing by dirty elected officials at all levels of government in New York.

«Friend or not, any instance of misconduct will be met with unambiguous action to ferret out the wrongdoing, correct the problem and ensure that law enforcement exacts the appropriate penalty,» Cohen said.

If these nanotubes could be customized to distinguish other gases, many of them could be placed on a single device, creating a «nose on a chip» that could ferret out pollutants or analyze the atmospheres of other planets.

To snag the treat, the birds had to use a short stick to ferret an intermediate stick out of a tube.

But even so, they make clear that, to ferret out that je ne sais quoi that foreshadows outstanding scientific performance, nothing compares to subjective judgments of quality by experienced researchers.

To find out how the virus might spread among people, an international group of researchers infected ferrets, which often stand as proxies for people in influenza studies.

To figure out how the neurotrophins might shape the brain, Kimberly McAllister, Lawrence Katz, and Donald Lo, all at Duke University, examined the effects of two of them, brain - derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and neurotrophin - 3 (NT - 3), on slices of the cerebral cortex from the developing brains of young ferrets.

But it wasn't until 2006 that the advent of big data allowed him to sift through millions of data points to ferret out biomarkers that correlated with age.

Even a decade ago many biologists still hewed to the idea that the immune system serves not only to eliminate pathogens but to ferret out cells that are the abnormal precursors of cancer.

The team also ferreted out another potassium channel gene called KCNQ3 that was mutated in two families, and apparently causes a nearly identical form of the disease.

In contrast to many people who work in technical support, I don't deal with customers directly, but rather my role is to provide technical back - up to a team of about 20 sales and technical support staff around Europe — ferreting out the answers to their most challenging queries.

Probing the original patient samples, the scientists ferreted out the sequence in two of the samples — one from an adult and one from a child.

The Corpus was conceived in 1853 by Theodor Mommsen, a German historian who dispatched a small army of epigraphists to peruse Roman ruins, inspect museum collections, and ferret out inscribed slabs of marble or limestone wherever they had been recycled, including the tops of medieval bell towers and the undersides of toilet seats.

The intent is to ferret out the causes of and develop personalized treatments for common conditions such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.

Three years ago the PISA exam added questions that were supposed to ferret out the problem - solving abilities of 15 - year - olds around the globe.

Though seen as the gold standard of medical research, such studies — even ones involving thousands of participants — may be too small to ferret out rare risk factors or side effects.

«We found that the noise is drastically decreased, as if the brain of the ferret filtered it out and recovered the cleaned speech,» Mesgarani says.

Nicolelis has faith that science will one day ferret out all the brain's information - processing tricks — or at least enough of them to yield huge improvements in neural prostheses for people who are paralyzed, blind, or otherwise disabled.

Researchers use CT scans to ferret out basic information like a mummy's sex, which is not easy to discern hundreds of years after death.

«Ferreting out causes of resistance to cancer drugs.»

It is very handy for us scientists because we can ferret out a lot of information in animal models, and there is a high probability that it will also apply to the human brain,» says Groh.