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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it - an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Peter Conrad

And the goal is to sample DNA from people all over the world, both indigenous populations and the general public.

Dr Spencer Wells

Katie will be the brand of CBS News...You will see her face attached to every CBS product out there. Katie has 15 years of history with people...That's the power of celebrity. The challenge for CBS will be to produce a compelling enough newscast to keep those curiosity seekers who sample the show coming back.

Deborah Norville

Collect samples to a depth of 3 to 4 inches from 10 or more locations throughout the entire renovation area (one sample per 1,000 square feet).

Tom Samples

These will be the very first contemporary interstellar dust grains ever brought back to Earth for study. Stardust is not only the first mission to return samples from a comet, it is the first sample return mission from the galaxy.

Andrew Westphal

They asked me to put together a sample.

Richard Neer

Usually it's just a concert, but we've had extensive celebrations recently. Four to five restaurants have donated in the past, and we've been able to sample the food and have contests, too.

Patricia Lewis

This particular sample falls into the cluster set of some of the more interesting ones.

Gregory Hodgins

This proposal shows that the Council will produce research of the highest quality. This research has the potential to bring significant improvements to audience measurement. Results could offer new models for recruitment as well as improved sample representation.

Paul Donato

I gave my sample, I have nothing to fear and nothing to hide.

Carlo Colaiacovo

For every two horses in our sample we were able to get a molecular measure of their relationship. It turned out that that was on average 47%.

Patrick Cunningham

When we do the regular tests on a sample that contains THG we don't see it, ... It disintegrates. It is not stable under the [hot] temperatures. You don't see anything.

Don Catlin

Our cafe keeps the name recognition out there and serves as a place where clients can come in to discuss arrangements or sample the menu selections.

Andrew Pantano

My mom gave me a sample of what she's going to sound like tonight.

Ariya Tafolla

Instead of sending a sample to a laboratory where they do some kind of elaborate analysis and eventually give you a result, they'll just have you blow on this chip and have the results then and there.

David Macdonald

Some observations can only be done from the ground, such as listen for the sonic boom and observing the hot air trail in the wake of the sample return capsule drift in front of the Moon.

Peter Jenniskens

A major bottleneck is actually changing samples and aligning them in the X-ray beam. We don't need to do that manually any more now that we have sample-changing robots.

Lawrence Shapiro

And you get to sample from the new olds.

Charlene Schultz

One thing you find out when you net a lake this size is there's a lot of variability. One net will be loaded with fish, and another will have hardly any. You try to reduce the variability with a larger sample size.

Randy Hiltner

It's just a simple matter of a blood sample from the patients.

Dr. Milton Gold

You have this diverse buffet of offerings available for you to sample and find the things you really like.

Natalie Van Straaten

The Corps of Engineers samplings haven't really found anything in any of those buildings until their last sample. The last go-round, they found one reading that was questionable. What the latest rounds show is it was probably a mistake.

Dennis Kuhlman

[And like legitimate businesspeople and freelancers, they must build a reputation before they can get hired for lucrative work.] If you're just getting started, you let people sample your work, ... You slowly establish your credibility and your value gets higher.

Jimmy Kuo

We're all about getting the fans involved. A lot of what we do is about getting people to sample our product, and people wanting to come back for more when they see how far the league and the game has come since we first started. We want to continue expanding in the future, and we want to continue attracting better talent.

Donna Orender

This is a sample of what will grow into a bigger season next year and, hopefully, an even bigger season in a facility [after that].

Manuel Bornia

It's not time enough for a really adequate sample size, but we have to be patient. Five starts [will be] more telling than two.

Theo Epstein

There's a first year for everything and there is a growth process. This is a small sample of what we are going to do, and we think it was a huge success.

Manuel Bornia

Any time there is a convicted felon, their sample is entered in the database, which can then be compared to any forensic unknown samples.

Annette Davis

All but Dave on the end peg struggled for anything other than really small roach - four or five to the ounce - until the last half-hour. Then most of the field began to sample the quality roach Dave had been catching for most of the match.

Paul Frost

This analysis relies on self-reported data that is updated irregularly. However, we used the driver's license data because we have an enormous sample and because we have addresses. These two advantages outweigh any potential bias in the weight information.

Siim Soot

The intended use of a free sample is to allow a patient to evaluate side effects and effectiveness for a couple of weeks before actually buying the drug.

Paul Hunter

You know I have not seen people doing back flips about the fact that he's mountain biking. But I think we'll see a few more people getting into it. I know the governor has turned into quite a cyclist, and I think there are other people out there that will probably sample it now that the president has given it a go.

Mike Cooley

Were you able to take a head hair sample?

Dave Harris

For the first time, a Spanish-language television network will be included in the national sample.

Sara Erichson

It's huge. The only way to get comfortable in this situation is to actually experience it, and as small a sample as it was, to get that actual experience was important. It gives me a lot more confidence and allows me to relax a little more.

Nate Mclouth

Expect any company to help you do data analysis. If they tell you, 'We can convert the data,' without working with it, be leery. Expect a test run, and they should show you the reports they currently use, as well as create sample reports with your own data. Compare those reports to your own.

Dan Skiles

The two most important aspects are that this can be done at atmospheric pressure and just by heating a sample, a procedure which is much simpler than existing ionization methods using a laser or high-energy beam. The method does not require a high-voltage power source.

R. Graham Cooks

This comet formed at very edge of the solar system ... out by pluto ... and spent all its lifetime out there until recently it came into the inner part of the solar system, where we could sample it.

Don Brownlee

I always tell people if you have any doubts, put the hay in garbage bag take it to the state lab and have a toxicologist look at it, ... They can tell you if the hay is contaminated. You don't have to be a vet to take a sample in.

Kathy Jones

Bumbershoot fits the personality of this city so well because people here are curious and engaged and they come to the festival to sample.

Sheila Hughes

Given the number of people involved in the organization, from the minor-league system through the major leagues, we don't feel their numbers are suggestive of anything. The sample is too small. Any real conclusion is unfair.

Rob Manfred

DNA gets everywhere. So when we're dealing with a sample and you find it's got human DNA in it - is that DNA from the fossil, or is it actually DNA from the person who unearthed it?

Chris Stringer

The main thing we hope to accomplish with the new sample design is to do a better job at getting new (business) establishments into the sample.

Katharine Abraham

Getting a sample from a comet but not landing on it, is probably the best chance we have of discovering what the solar system was like 4.5 billion years ago.

Dr. Peter Tsou

We're getting a pretty good sample. It acts as a good deterrent.

Charles Carroll

We've seen some changes in testing, I can test a sample of hay--after I get it to the lab -- in as little as ten minutes, if I do a wet test.

Dale Dutt

When people come up on Highway 94 . . . they can come out and sample wine and purchase wine. Eventually, that would be nice.

Janet Wright

That kind of a no-doubt-about-it pond with minimal shallow excavation could be a goldmine of microfossil material! I'd want to sample its beautiful rims ... and do a small core down through the middle somewhere.

Penelope Boston

In a sample, the levels of arsenic were found to be too high. We have asked them to withdraw this batch.

Pascal Houbaert

Wheeler says it happened after he refused to give a urine sample.

Chris Trenkmann

We've got another semen sample that's being flown in from Tulsa (Oklahoma) so we'll be doing another one tonight.

Peper Long

I was surprised, ... I would have guessed 3,000 but not 8,000. I thought it was so outrageous that I took a second sample.

Michael O'brien

We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample droppings for viral tests.

David Allan

We drag our beam back and forth like someone would drag their finger over braille writing. Then we feed that into a computer and it pulls out what's in the sample just like pulling a needle out of a haystack.

Luke Brewer

We had a special test to see if there were any surfactants (such as dish detergent) in a sample.

Thomas Dobie

There seems to be this predestined path that he's going to be in the major leagues [soon]. It's like anything else; it is up to opportunity and his performance. He's only had 10 [pro] outings, and that's really not a good sample size for us to say 'Yeah, he's the guy.' But, maybe he'll prove that he is.

Ben Cherington

If our sample is representative of the larger youth sport population, this finding would suggest that there are nearly 2 million kids being physically abused by their coaches each year.

David Shields

Sample me wombat black, Jack.

Rolf Harris

It's made so that you may come back to your property alive, instead of having to ask someone in your family to submit a DNA sample to help identify you, as is currently taking place in the Gulf Coast region.

Patrick Mcmahon

This time of year we go through as much as 100 gallons of juice a day in samples alone. Customers are always welcome to come in and sample.

Dave Nicely

If you have to drive to support your family or because you can't get a ride to work without driving, then it may be better to provide the breath sample and hope that your lawyer can successfully challenge it in court.

Harold Stevens

We know we have the largest properties in the sample and what we are missing is going to be very small.

Kathy Deck

We'll have to wait and see what the results and lessons learned from the Genesis mishap reviews are to see how they will affect Mars Sample Return designs.

Mark Adler

I have played a lot of high profile games but I am not really sure what to expect from the other teams here so from that point of view it is a challenge, I had other options but I wanted to sample the culture here as well.

Brian Deane

The sample is available no matter what. That's a big bonus.

Frantisek Turecek

People have told us it's a way to both sample new authors and stay in touch with beloved authors between books.

Steve Kessel

The latest sample results we have, there's no PCB oil detected below this containment area right here.

Robert Stidham

We have 17 restaurants that come in and we set up tables; and the restaurants bring deserts and hors d'oeuvres and people go around and sample what they have.

Amy Grabowski

You'll be able to sample the food the caterers have, which is so important when selecting a caterer for your special day.

Florence Belcher

I don't care if a machine hits 99% for a minute, I'd rather have it take a sample over time, because machines do jump up every once in a while.

Ron Rosenkoetter

[Of course, the data sample we're working with is far too small to draw definitive long-term conclusions.] This is very early in the process, ... Anything anyone sees now is anecdotal.

Marc Siegel

As traditional Liberal voters become dismayed by Paul Martin's campaign, they're finding a comfortable new home in the NDP. This ad features just a small sample of them.

Brad Lavigne

I saw criticism of the plan that the sample size isn't large enough. It's not quantity. It's quality.

Andy Curtin

If you're just getting started, you let people sample your work. You slowly establish your credibility and your value gets higher.

Jimmy Kuo

We will try to sample at least one rain or snow event a month.

Frank Tursi

If all the kids who made noises about killing their parents were laid end to end, you'd have an enormous sub-sample of the juvenile population, but usually it's all talk. Given the enormous amount of familial conflict, the rarity of kids killing parents is remarkable.

Franklin Zimring

They would need that to compare to the sample to make sure it doesn't belong to the victim.

Alan Friedman

We know that we can steer it sufficiently to sample another region of the crater.

Daniel Andrews

One hit can get the audience's faith back that a comedy can be good. They've been exposed to so many dire, bad half-hour shows that the expectation is that any half-hour comedy is going to be the same stale stuff we've seen. So there's a disinclination to sample them.

Joe Keenan

If a scent sent to us matches with any sample from our bank, then we have a clue.

Song Zhenhua

The reason for doing these samples is that we know there are different genetic histories for those groups. There are patterns that you might see in a Caucasian sample that you wouldn't see in a Japanese sample, and some in Yoruba that you wouldn't see in another population. But there are also similarities across the groups.

Peter Donnelly

Mass spectrometry is one of the most sensitive methods for finding drugs, chemicals, pollutants and disease, but the problem is that you have to extract a sample and treat that sample before you can analyze it.

Evan Williams

We found that the older teens in our sample lost more weight through the Adventure Therapy regimen, and many kept it off at the 10 month follow-up.

Elissa Jelalian

We've had a member whose leg was carved up as they took a sample of leg hair.

Ed Mullins

A verbal appeal is not enough, and we require a formal application. It has not yet been decided as to when sample B will be tested.

Zhao Jian

Sun's urine sample taken after the Beijing International Marathon returned negative results, so she can keep her title for the marathon race.

Zhao Jian