Sentences with phrase «of finding a needle»

They are masters of finding a needle in a haystack yet no one knows who they are.

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We'll do a final post in a few weeks when we find out whether we moved the needle on our bliss - o - meter after a month of dabbling.

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

«Using machine learning to find a needle in a haystack is where computers can help us transcend our limitations,» says Professor Adam Pah from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and Northwestern's Institute on Complex Systems (NICO).

You can still find analog scales with a single needle that points to your weight, but none of these are included in our guide because they are difficult to read and imprecise.

By staying small, I had to thread the needle of finding some bigger, but not too big, checks from family offices and high net worth individuals — all people who don't put themselves out there and who aren't necessarily staffed to take a lot of inbound.

All over the world there are thousands of events everyday, but finding the ones that pay can be a needle in a haystack.

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?

Finding the needle in a haystack out of the multitude of cryptocurrencies on the market is the arduous half.

On the other hand, you could get a fentanyl - intensive pinch — in which case you will be found dead soon thereafter with the needle still sticking out of your arm.

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.

The memories come faded, like last year's pine needles: the few that always seem to find their way in among the Christmas ornaments to sift out brittle and yellow when the box comes down from the back of the linen closet the next December.

You'll need an injection needle which can be found in the BBQ section of grocery stores.

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.

Ramsey needs to learn how to be disiplined in defence, when to time runs bombing forward and not at every chance as we have ozil in front of him who can find a needle in a haystack with a pass!

The rarity of signing Ozil and Sanchez is like finding a needle in a haystack.

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.

I always scattered projects throughout the house, in every room, so that should I, by some chance, find myself with a peaceful moment of occupied children, I could pick up the needles and knit without disturbing the peace.

You can usually find me sitting of a night with either Knitting needles or a sewing needle in my hands.

Now she was just humoring me, so I smiled, signaling that I was done with my soap box, and then I returned to my clicking needles as she walked out of the room to find the dentist.

it's that it CONCENTRATES the crazy and turns into a contest to see who is the most hardcore - so maybe you are a reasonable person who is afraid of needles and would like to avoid an epidural, so you google unmedicated childbirth, and you find a message board, and before you know it, you're delivering your baby while swinging from a trapeze over a bed of knives because you trust birth that much and everyone else is a big fat poser.

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.

«We're using that data to find the needles in the haystack of possible materials,» says Chamberlain.

«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.

He found that scales shaped like flattened needles cover less than half of translucent areas.

Findings from this study of flu vaccines delivered by a small needle intradermally parallel earlier results that found adding a strain of influenza B could improve the effectiveness of a flu vaccine nasal spray and a traditional intramuscular vaccine that is injected as a shot in the arm muscle.

«Sepsis is a killer and notoriously difficult to identify accurately in children, which is why this alert is so promising,» said lead study author Fran Balamuth, MD, PhD, MSCE, of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, in Philadelphia, Pa. «Identifying the rare child with severe sepsis or septic shock among the many non-septic children with fever and tachycardia in a pediatric ER is truly akin to finding the proverbial «needle in a haystack.»

A team led by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that the type of plant inputs (that is, root or needle litter) affected total carbon and nitrogen retention over 10 years, but that soil horizon (essentially, the layer of soil, such as the topsoil organic or deeper mineral layers) affected how the litter - derived soil organic material is stabilized in the long term.

«[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.

When it comes to early diagnosis of Lyme disease, the insidious tick - borne illness that afflicts about 300,000 Americans annually, finding the proverbial needle in the haystack might be a far easier challenge — until now, perhaps.

The probability of this virus surviving and infecting a human is so low — it is as if Topham and lead study author, Marta Lopez de Diego, Ph.D., research assistant professor of Microbiology and Immunology, found a needle in a haystack.

«We weren't even aware of the needle exchange in the neighbourhood until we found people shooting up in vacant lots... in hallways and between cars.»

So far, they have found that some clones of the Nordmann fir — a top - selling Christmas tree in Europe — retain water after harvest better than the originals, and that noble and Fraser firs are the only species that consistently don't shed needles or discolor when they are displayed dry.

These found that over three months the proportion of needles infected with HIV that were returned to an exchange fell from 67 per cent to 42 per cent.

«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).

Finding the proverbial «needle in the haystack» would be to identify the genes that direct the immune response to infectious disease, as well as the ability to survive the harsh conditions of the Mojave Desert.»

Waters and others hesitate to attach overwhelming significance to the find until they locate similar sites farther east — a task akin to finding a needle in a frozen haystack of continental proportions.

«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.»

Researchers found moderate sedation was primarily used to calm anxiety in more than half of the patients (54 percent), followed by fear of needles (15 percent), local anesthesia failures (15 percent) and severe gag reflex and claustrophobia from the rubber dam (both 8 percent).

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

When Oudhoff applied human saliva to skin - cell cultures scratched by a needle, however, he found that the concentrations of growth factors were too low to have any therapeutic effect.

The study to find out what leads to children developing needle fear, titled «Predicting preschool pain - related anticipatory distress: the relative contribution of longitudinal and concurrent factors,» is being published in the journal Pain this fall.

Valentia Vitali and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bauhus from the Chair of Silviculture at the University of Freiburg are thus studying other types of needle - leaved conifers to find alternatives.

More than half of children are scared of needles; York University researchers have found a strong connection between this fear in anticipation of a jab and their parents» behaviour during infant vaccinations.

Spicules» needle - like forms of silica have long been known as the structural supports found in the bodies of sponges.