Sentence examples for attempts to filter from inspiring English sources

Seasonal adjustment attempts to filter out expected changes in employment such as the layoff of temporary retail employees after the winter holidays.

Despite their best attempts to filter things down to a manageable list, however, I'm still generally left with the standard New York diner's dilemma: too much choice.

Although most of the sites eventually get back online, denial-of-service attacks rarely generate as much outrage as formal government attempts to filter information on the Internet.

The trade-off is exposure to ideas and forums that run counter to Iran's fundamentalist theocracy -- a trade-off that the government, in spite of a few failed attempts to filter Web sites and restrict access, seems resigned to make.

Attempts to filter websites have not stopped Iranians accessing blocked addresses: use of VPN (virtual private network) services and anti-filtering software is widespread and a generation of young entrepreneurs have invented their own social media services, initiating an inadvertent start-up revolution.

In this way, Chime.in attempts to filter out a lot of the noise from your noisiest friends (hello, Scoble).

Women collecting water attempted to filter out the worms through leaves and grasses, but were not always successful.

Rather than attempt to filter its sites for users in different countries, Yahoo! banned such material from all its sites.

In early 1998, as more bombs were found, and after an abortive attempt to filter out the ammunition, the navy abandoned the beach-replenishment project, dumping the sand into the sea instead.

Freshly analyzing my insecurity-driven tactic for what it was -- a lame attempt to filter the world as my own private "Gong Show" -- I was nevertheless delighted when I extracted my head from my navel and saw that my neurotic defense had turned into a national pastime.

Hence engineers routinely attempt to filter out noise.