Sentence examples for a strain of common from inspiring English sources

Realism, best understood, is a strain of common sense.

One of the first tests of the technology was to "evolve" a strain of the common E. coli bacteria that was 32,000 times more resistant to an antibiotic than the natural strain.

A strain of the disease that is common to Nepal originated near a camp used by Nepalese soldiers where reporters observed what appeared to be sewage flowing into a river.

Though tradition has treated Laozi and Zhuangzi as the Socrates and Plato of 'Daoism,' the use of Lao-Zhuang to identify a strain of thought may have become common only as with Neo-Daoism in the 3rd Century AD.

I suspect this stubborn strain of common sense also afflicts Mrs. Gingrich.

The 3AM crowd are my people because, like me, they just can't tear themselves away from the music, even if every strain of common sense tells us it's smart to go home.

Far more common is a strain of anti-religious imagery, from Francis Bacon's screaming pope paintings to Andre Serrano's inflammatory "Piss Christ".

Armed with genome maps, researchers have gained a critical insight into why a particular strain of a common bacterium causes rheumatic fever--the leading cause of preventable childhood heart disease.

We thus have been collecting expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from single limited strains of common wheat [ 7, 8].

Escherichia coli 0157 is a relatively new strain of a common intestinal bacteria (it was first isolated in the 1980's) that is common in feedlot cattle, more than half of whom carry it in their guts.

Life-threatening flare-ups of emphysema and chronic bronchitis are often set off by infections from newly encountered strains of common germs, a study has found.