Sentence examples for obtaining a sample from inspiring English sources

By the time Kyle's doctors knew that he had E. coli, the kidney failure had flushed his system so completely that obtaining a sample to test was impossible, Mr. Mason said.

The procedure for creating a DNA fingerprint consists of first obtaining a sample of cells, such as skin, hair, or blood cells, which contain DNA.

In three illustrative examples, the proposed adaptive importance sampling algorithm demonstrates its capabilities of automatically finding a GM proposal with an appropriate number of modes for the specific problem under study, and obtaining a sample accurately and efficiently representing the posterior with limited number of forward simulations.

On the other hand, Haddad et al. [19] included only MRIs done for ligament and cartilage problems, obtaining a sample with features that are potentially different from the general population; they also included a small mixed group (5%) in gender analysis, which was excluded from ethnic analysis.

In general, biopsy is the preferred method for obtaining a sample for testing.

The participants were recruited using a multistage, stratified sampling design, which is an efficient approach to obtaining a sample representative of the civilian noninstitutionalized population.

Privacy laws prevented us from obtaining a sampling frame consisting of a list of names.

Washington has been eager to obtain a sample of the strain ever since.

He obtained a sample, made a piston with it and installed it in the engine of a friend's Austin Mini.

The state's Department of Corrections said it obtained a sample from Mr. Ellis while he was in prison in 2001.

American officials tried to obtain a sample from Russia through a scientific exchange program to see whether the Russians had really created such a hybrid.