Sentences with phrase «pin down how»

With our colour - matching service we can produce pretty much any shade you fancy, but sometimes it's hard to pin down how your choice will work with the other elements in a room.

Many of the offending apps may no longer exist and it is hard to pin down how much of the data they collected was copied or distributed or where those copies might exist.

I can't pin down how to describe it, you simply have to see it for yourself!

That said, I am trying to pin down how often I really need to charge it.

We could never quite pin down how to use this accelerator to get consistent performance.

And despite the rapid proliferation of online courses, it's still hard to pin down how many students take part in different types of online - learning options, let alone how well they are doing.

For your holiday makeup looks, these tutorials should help you pin down how you can get a glowing look in little time.

However, it has been difficult to pin down how the role of NMDA receptors selectively in specific types of brain cells.

«Being able to pin down how long Mercury has had a magnetic field helps us narrow down scenarios for the early history of Mercury and how it has changed over time,» Johnson reportedly said.

Now we have a lot of work in front of us in examining the most promising locations in enough detail to really pin down how the Anthropocene might be clearly and precisely recognised around the world.»

Nor does the work pin down how long seasons might have lasted.

Sobel and his colleagues recently set out to pin down how that process works by determining the relationship between the structure of a molecule and the way it smells.

But if researchers can pin down how the mutated protein exerts its effects, they may learn just what kills off crucial neurons in the much larger number of patients with nonhereditary Parkinson's.

As such, heand his colleagues wanted to pin down how old Chororapithecus was, in order to better pinpoint when the human and gorilla lineages may have first diverged.

NEW ORLEANS — Ever since Ötzi's mummified body was found in the Italian Alps in 1991, researchers have been trying to pin down how the 5,300 - year - old Tyrolean Iceman died.

Terkeltaub enlisted colleagues at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, and the University of California, San Diego, to try to pin down how these precursors, called monocytes, might be attracted to the lesions.

Some will portray this as a high proportion, others as a low proportion, and such sterile obsession with numbers is likely to continue until scientists can pin down how HIV is spread.

«It's hard to pin down how much dredging will cost because we don't know how much we need to dredge or where we're going to put the dredged material,» said Park District Executive Director Robert Dunsmuir.

Because there are multiple units, it's hard to pin down how many hectares Daterra covers.

:) I found your recipe while trying to pin down how they did it to try it at home.

The mythology surrounding ecoterrorism makes it hard to pin down how much of it actually happens.

Pinning down how and why acid molecules split in the presence of water could give insights into biochemistry and pollutants forming in the atmosphere

But even those who disagree with the result say Abzhanov and his student Bhart - Anjan Bhullar, now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago, have demonstrated a powerful new approach: pinning down how the anatomy changed using fossils, then trying to recapitulate the changes in the lab by tinkering with genetic signals.

Researchers are pinning down how that mutation ruins neurons — knowledge that may suggest therapies

«We have looked for dark matter particles during the experiment's first three - month run, but are exploiting new calibration techniques better pinning down how they would appear to our detector,» said Alastair Currie of Imperial College London, a LUX researcher.

Now, Salk scientists have pinned down how signals from this microenvironment encourage pancreatic tumors to grow by altering their metabolism.

But because most of the proteins found in those synapses die and renew themselves so rapidly, scientists have had a hard time pinning down how synapses are stable enough to explain the kind of learning and memory that lasts a lifetime.

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The researchers caution that their study can't pin down exactly how much achievement is down to prior math success and how much is because of the way positivity pumps up learning in the brain.

How can you pin down and acquire presence?

That's the contention of Carson Tate, author of Work Simply, who claims to have pinned down four distinct productivity styles along with ideas on how each type of worker can best contribute to his or her team.

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You'll need to pin down exactly how much it'll cost to send a child to college, or how much you'll need to live on in retirement.

Thanks for setting out this topic, I know how difficult it can be to pin down.

Actually, this is what Arty fantasizes about if there wasn't a Consti.tution... how he sees the landscape if he could freely finger the trigger of «Gabriel,» his precious AR - 15 with the firing pin filed down to make it just about automatic.

1 - le is Aristotle's Prime Mover, setting the planets spinning like bowling balls down their great alleys, but not caring how many pins are struck.

A Careful Approach Culture is a difficult term to pin down and OTWTL offers an engaging and thought - provoking attempt to analyse how best the Catholic community can respond to what it frequently calls «modernity», now conceived in post-modernist terms as a society that has both privatised spirituality and championed the «needs» of the individual for such things as freedom, autonomy and self expression.

«Clean label» has been a rallying cry for years, but in the Instagram age — where trends and preferences change more quickly than ever — it's difficult to pin down exactly how location, culture, age and other factors are shaping the clean label movement and creating unique challenges and opportunities.

I was hoping Miz would swagger out to the middle of the ring (maybe a little speech about how we all know how this is going to end), give the finger to Cena and then just lie down in the middle of the ring and wait to be pinned... all while Maryse held up a LOLCENAWINS sign.

We've seen how pivotal Andy Robertson has been in breaking down low - block defences this season, registering three assists against Bournemouth, West Ham and Watford with pin - point crosses into the box.

During the first few weeks, I used to set the alarm for every three hours, then take my Moses Basket filled with pillows, blankets, my safety pin (to remind me where I had nursed last), and the notebook where I wrote down every detail of how long my son nursed for.

One woman described how her brother was chased down the road and then pinned to the ground and stabbed 13 times.

What is extremely difficult to pin down and, according to him, the greatest challenge for accurate polling is determining who is actually likely to vote in any given election, both among the respondents, and how that maps out to the larger population.

She said the Committee had faced «considerable difficulty» in pinning down just how much the Games was costing the taxpayer and how much risk there was.

Capitol Weekly, California's major weekly periodical covering the state legislature, publishes an annual legislative scorecard to pin down the political or ideological leanings of every member of the legislature based on how they voted on an assortment of bills in the most recent legislative session.

Shnayerson also tries to pin down just how much, if anything, Andrew, had to do with the unlucky fortunes of former HUD secretary Henry Cisneros, Cisneros's most likely successor Seattle mayor Norm Rice, and former governors Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson.

Astronomers will first and foremost attempt to pin down the object's exact size (based on its brightness), as well as its shape and spin rate (based on how its brightness fluctuates).

Regardless of how scientists follow up this discovery, one way or another the result will be «pinning down the number of black holes in the center of a normal galaxy like the Milky Way,» Hailey says.

The electrons that dance around an atomic nucleus help determine how the atom bonds with others, but they are notoriously difficult to pin down.

Taken together, the resulting map will help astronomers pin down many still - unknown fundamental aspects of our galaxy such as how fast and uniformly it rotates.

How can you expect the interview panel to pin down your good qualities if you're not sure of them yourself?