Sentence examples for by taking a large from inspiring English sources

Dr. Guarente's startling insight into caloric restriction was gained by taking a large though well-calculated career risk.

It does so by taking a large number of measurements while stable, averaging them, and subtracting the offset from any subsequent measurements.

The hedge fund had launched a raid by taking a large stake (now at 13 per cent) and requesting three board seats at Alliance.

It noted that Mr. Hussein could use either conventional terrorism or a weapon of mass destruction as "his last chance to exact vengeance by taking a large number of victims with him".

And at the back of my mind is a idea that by taking a large body of text which represents the views of a section of our population, we can analyse this data to learn about ourselves in new ways.

Such terrorism might involve conventional means, as with Iraq's unsuccessful attempt at a terrorist offensive in 1991, or C.B.W. Saddam might decide that the extreme step of assisting Islamist terrorists in conducting a W.M.D. attack against the United States would be his last chance to exact vengeance by taking a large number of victims with him.

But Uber would likely recoup its rising labor costs by taking a larger cut of fares and shrinking its workforce.

And no polling firm – however strong – can rid itself of sampling variance, although it can reduce it by taking a larger sample of voters.

Many of the street leaders, who are uniformly men, are despised or feared by other refugees; they've exploited their positions of relative power to benefit personally, by taking a larger share of the aid that is distributed, employing friends and relatives in jobs around the camp, or using violence to extort money and to suppress potential rivals.

It is a quite conservative estimation and we did not want, by taking a larger value, to increase unrealistically this component of revenue.

If Youden's index Y, i.e., true positive rate minus false positive rate, is maximal, then the classification accuracy cannot be further improved by taking a larger cutoff [ 19].