Sentences with phrase «use of the shotgun»

Their expert use of shotguns are proof of that.

Not exact matches

So instead of taking that shotgun approach, it's better to use a focused, deliberate, intentional methodology to choose one loan to pay off first.

The contractor in question, the Virginia - based US Corrections Special Operations Group (US C - SOG), has been stationed at Rikers Island since May, training the jail's nearly 200 Emergency Services Unit (ESU) officers in tactical techniques, including the use of Tasers and Kel - Tec shotguns loaded with rubber «less lethal» ammunition.

US C - SOG argues that by using modern technology and weapons, including shotguns, Tasers, and body cameras, officers can use a more exact amount of force and ensure they never apply more than necessary.

The amount of precision the shotguns provide could never be achieved by using batons or elbows, he added — particularly when guards are required to wear body cameras.

Instead of taking a shotgun approach, you must use a high - powered sniper rifle.

Commerce said in a statement to McClatchy said it already has a framework in place to oversee the export process: an export - control enforcement office, an export - licensing agency and an end - use verification program that currently govern export of 12 - gauge shotguns, optical sighting devices for firearms and crime - control equipment.

Sean Murphy, 38, lost most of his left middle finger after using the stolen 12 - bore Beretta shotgun at a garden centre in Doncaster.

Had you have left Calvinism out of the picture, you would have had a point but not only have you painted all Calvinists with one brush (intentional or not) but you've also personally misrepresented James White by using him in your opening statements and connecting him to «shotgun hermeneutics».

They were closing to observe Shabbat, which we think admirable, and we mean that, even if when raiding their apartment the police found 900 glassines of heroin, 335 oxycodone pills (of an estimated 23,000 they allegedly acquired using prescription sheets stolen from local doctors), as well as cocaine, Xanax, Suboxone, Klonopin, and a sawed - off shotgun.

Of course, they also used shotguns as well (and a Tec 9 with high cap mags).

Shotguns are used by shooters and send a spray of pellets into the air.

Across my lap I held an antique 38 - 40, the accuracy of which was less than profound but better anyhow than the shotgun and slug my friends used, which was an embarrassment to them.

Among the treasures up for grabs: the first catcher's mask (worn by James Tyng of Harvard in the 1870s); two tickets from the first modern World Series, in 1903; the $ 52,000 contract Babe Ruth signed with the Yanks in»23 («Ruth always dreamed of making a grand a week,» says Halper); Lou Gehrig's»27 uniform; Joe DiMaggio's first pro jersey (San Francisco Seals,» 33) and»51 World Series ring; Mickey Mantle's Triple Crown trophy from» 56; and a store of Cobbabilia that ranges from the Georgia Peach's dentures to the shotgun his mother used to shoot his father.

«If we had traveled 1,200 miles to «butcher wantonly,»» says the author, «we would most certainly not have ventured beyond our camp with shotguns, since it would have been easy to use the Eskimo's method for getting food] of killing off an entire flock with rifles or sticks while they slept on the ground.»

#CMU head coach John Bonamego on banning of satellite camps: «The sad part is the NCAA pretty much used a shotgun instead of a flyswatter.»

After all, Jorge Sampaoli's Chile side were wonderful to watch and full of verve and joy, but they didn't win anything until the 2015 Copa America and even that required Argentina to blow their nose off with a shotgun to spite their face as Tata Martino executed a gameplan which saw Lionel Messi used as a decoy.

On the right, Allegri could either go with a standard winger in Juan Cuadrado or could push up Dani Alves and use Andrea Barzagli in the back, either as a shotgun right back or as part of the 3 -4-2-1 that Juve used against Monaco in the semis.

Standing in front of a sign that says «Lead Present» because lead pellets are still in the top nine inches of the soil, club member James Monk used a hand - held monitor to check the shotgun shells of the shooters as they entered the trap range.

Residents near the range on West Street near Martin Avenue have expressed concerns about the possibility of lead contamination from shotgun use.

On animal welfare, the Burns report did conclude that hunting «seriously compromises the welfare of the fox», but suggested that other methods such as using shotguns during the day or snaring could be considered equally cruel.

Heller dealt with a strict District of Columbia law that banned ownership of any handgun in the district and also required that any gun (even rifles and shotguns) should be kept unloaded and under the control of a trigger lock at all times when not in use.

A fire department in Putnam County reconsidered its decision to raffle off an AR - 15, a semiautomatic weapon similar to the ones used in recent mass shootings, and a shotgun after a heated public meeting held in the wake of the Parkland tragedy.

The legislation, he noted, specifies that crossbows shall be authorized only for any big game season when use of firearms (rifles, shotguns, handguns or muzzle loaders) are permitted.

The researchers used the so - called shotgun sequencing technique: splintering the DNA in the genetic makeup of specially inbred mosquitoes then painstakingly reassembling it.

In a bid to progress beyond the shotgun approach to fighting cancer — blasting malignant cells with toxic chemicals or radiation, which kills surrounding healthy cells in the process — researchers at the Harvard - MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) are using nanotechnology to develop seek - and - destroy models to zero in on and dismantle tumors without damaging nearby normal tissue.

As when he worked on the human genome, Venter is relying on a radical technique called shotgun sequencing: He chops up vast amounts of DNA into tiny pieces and then uses sophisticated computer analyzers to piece them back together into intelligible genes and chromosomes.

These diets may naturally be providing a shotgun approach to cancer prevention by using a wide variety of beneficial compounds to target multiple pathways that cancer stem cells use to survive.

The investigators used a technique called bottom - up proteomics (sometimes called shotgun proteomics) to reveal which proteins of each species were present in the hybrid flies.

Together with the French gene sequencing center Genoscope, in the Paris suburb of Evry, Celera will perform the initial sequencing using the «whole - genome shotgun» approach it unleashed on the human genome.

Shotgun sequences random fragments of DNA, not one consistent gene, so it requires researchers to have a strong database they can use to match the sequences to an organism.

all active genes in the leaves of dodder - connected plants, using RNA sequencing (or «whole transcriptome shotgun sequencing»)?

Conventional shotgun sequencing methods can only be used for fairly short strands of DNA.

Shallow shotgun metagenomics means instead of using the 16S rRNA as a marker gene, we fragment all the DNA in the sample, grind it up, sequence it in small pieces, and try to figure out what it is afterwards.

The meeting program will encompass investigations of eukaryote biodiversity, ecology, and evolution, using approaches such as rRNA marker genes, shotgun metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, and computational biology tools and software pipelines.

So instead of taking a shotgun approach to killing a cancer cell, we are using a targeted approach that is not necessarily specific to an anatomical site, but rather the specific mutation identified in the tumor.

We have recently developed hybrid assembly methods that use a combination of short and long reads to produce remarkably high - quality assemblies from whole - genome shotgun data.

The rational use of adjuvants will be studied in detail, as very often researchers use a «shotgun» approach with adjuvants, testing entire panels with their antigens in the search for improved immune responses.

Using the whole genome shotgun method, the researchers have achieved 8-fold coverage of the genome, which contains about 2.9 million base pairs.

As a first step, they used shotgun sequencing to sequence a 32,000 - base - pair region of the finch's genome.

«Analysis of the bread wheat genome using whole genome shotgun sequencing» is published online in Nature on November 29, 2012.

This «scaffold sequence» is being used to assist in assembly and finishing of the whole - genome shotgun data.

The research team collaborated with molecular biotechnologist Leroy Hood of the Institute of Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington, using a whole genome shotgun strategy to obtain the genetic data.

Skoglund, P., Storå, J., Götherström, A. & Jakobsson, M. Accurate sex identification of ancient human remains using DNA shotgun sequencing.

We used ∼ 9-fold whole - genome Sanger shotgun coverage to produce a ∼ 167 - megabase - pair assembly that typically represents each locus once rather than splitting alleles (Supplementary Notes 2 and 3) and captures ∼ 97 % of the protein - coding gene content (Supplementary Note 2.5).

In this study, we have used culture - independent shotgun metagenomics to investigate microbial communities in river sediments exposed to waste water from the production of antibiotics in India.

In 1992 Dr. Venter founded The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), a not - for - profit research institute, where in 1995 he and his team decoded the genome of the first free - living organism, the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae, using his new whole - genome «shotgun» technique.

Yet it also points to the shotgun approach that some of these people use.

A new crisis causes Eric to reflect on an old mission; Lafayette uses fear to prove a point to Tara; Sookie may be an unwitting pawn in a plot by Russell Edgington, the Vampire King of Mississippi, to expand his influence; Jason rides shotgun with Andy on a drug bust.

Players use baseball bats, knives, axes, shotguns, and rifles to kill waves of zombies.