Sentence examples for agent at a time from inspiring English sources

In nature, plants may be affected by more than one disease-causing agent at a time.

As a captured Soviet agent at a time of intense Cold War paranoia and fear about the bomb, Rylance's Abel becomes a figure of loathing for the American public.

Now, in new buildings a few dozen yards away, a government contractor is neutralizing one steel container of the chemical agent at a time, in a project that is expected to cost nearly $2 billion.

A dependency hypothesis for an agent at a time is a maximally specific proposition about how the things the agent cares about do and do not depend causally on his present acts.

Gene expression profiling provides an opportunity to move beyond traditional approaches to exposure assessment (for example, environmental studies based on one chemical agent at a time) and to outcome assessment (for example, histological type in cancer).

Limited statistical power of single cohort studies is a much bigger issue in the study of interactions between exposures than in one-agent-at-a-time studies, resulting in an even greater need for collaborative studies here.

With an imperceptible nod of the head he sends three agents at a time off to do his bidding.

Informants are supposed to be handled by two agents at a time, and the Bureau discouraged anyone of supervisory rank from operating an informant.

Ripa was introduced to give a framework for the "lawful interception of communications, access to communications data, surveillance and the use of covert human intelligence sources (undercover agents)" at a time when laws in this area either did not exist, or had become outdated – a criticism now laid at Ripa, which has struggled to make sense of an ever-changing technological landscape.

He employed as many as five press agents at a time, and he brought his particular combination of gall and good-enough looks onstage with a distinctive swagger: chest out, body pitched forward on the balls of his feet, hands cupped behind his swinging arms — as Jack Benny quipped, like a headwaiter trying to get a tip.

This interpretation may explain even the delayed headache provoked by vasodilator agents, at a time when vasodilatation has ended.