Sentence examples for for an extraneous from inspiring English sources

Charles Carrier, a spokesman for Mr. Silver, said, "What they are doing is denying the City Board of Elections what it needs to run the type of election New York City voters deserve and sacrificing that for an extraneous issue".

Thus, the Singapore Court of Appeal held in Law Society of Singapore v. Tan Guat Neo Phyllis (2008) that the Attorney-General "may not use his prosecutorial power in bad faith for an extraneous purpose".

Intellectual entrepreneurship in the present context includes the selection of ideas, notions and concepts from an extraneous culture for integration into standard or mainstream theory.

These assays were also performed by treating glp-1 nematodes with glp-1 RNAi to serve as a control for any extraneous effects of the RNAi treatment; we observed no difference in survival on either E. coli or C. neoformans between glp-1 mutants treated with glp-1 RNAi or those treated with vector control (data not shown).

Inclusion of an SC accounts for any extraneous residual EA that might exist in the media, extraction solution, or derived from the materials used for sample preparation.

To control for an additional extraneous factor, the tests described in the previous section may be extended to allow for a stratification of the data; as before, the score statistics U, and their variances, V, are calculated for each stratum and simply added over strata.

Specifically, the joint probability density function (PDF) for an input signal and an extraneous noise of arbitrary distribution type is expanded into an infinite series, with the product of each marginal PDF included in the first expansion term.

The high rate of lactate occurrence in Washington's samples (6 of 9 vs 3 of 94 for non-Washington) was not due to chance (p < 10-6), buthehe fact that the six runs exhibiting lactate were all done on one day with no non-Washington control means that we cannot rule out an extraneous source for the lactate.

He said the government had transferred the youths for "an improper and extraneous purpose" of emergency accommodation.

Larsson may have had a weakness for extraneous detail, but at the same time, paradoxically, he is a very good storyteller.

The DG is the "gateway" to the hippocampus and is believed to engage, on the one hand as a barrier for extraneous or irrelevant information (Lemon et al 2009) and on the other hand to subserve pattern separation (Hunsaker et al. 2008).