Sentence examples for choosing a number from inspiring English sources

But among the leading actors of his day, he was considered courageous for choosing a number of roles as a bad guy, or at least a troubled one.

In practice, the tool in question support similar functions around the world – choosing a number from your call log and then dialing it, or clicking on the "add friend" button on Facebook.

Although this may prevent the arbitrator from choosing a number he or she believes is truly fair, the riskiness of the process drives the parties toward agreement, dramatically raising settlement rates.

To me, choosing a number — 350, 450 or 550 parts per million, 2 or 3 degrees (F. or C.!) — is essentially meaningless for our generation, especially given the trajectories for emissions in China and India.

It follows that the mathematical model for choosing a number at random from [0, 1] and that of tossing a fair coin infinitely many times assign the same probabilities to all intervals of the form [k/2n, 1/2n].

It is a basic problem, and by no means a simple one, to show that the intuitive notion of choosing a number at random from [0, 1], as described above, is consistent with the preceding definitions.

Everyone chose a number between one and seven.

Then the next player chooses a number.

At lunch three of us chose a number of appetizers and just a couple of entrees.

Everyone chose a number and put twenty dollars in a pool.

"It's not worth it," said Mr. Li, who chose a number ending in 7.