Sentence examples for pick long from inspiring English sources

Like touts at a racetrack, political operatives pride themselves on their ability to pick long shots.

And James Chanos, a professional short-seller, is starting a hedge fund where he will pick long investments as well as sell stocks short.

But he likes to pick long shots or horses that offer good betting value, the way he did so successfully in 1999.

We did not use bonus points for upsets and underdogs, but Joe Drape did pick long-shot winners Animal Kingdom and Palace Malice.

But it's simply too early to pick long-term winners in nanotechnology, and there's the danger that hype will create a bubble in the sector, boosting weak companies that will flop and souring interest in potential winners.

And he had no illusions about how hard value investing is as opposed to getting a jump on the gun: "He who tries to pick long-term value stocks must surely lead much more laborious days and run greater risks to his career than he who tries to guess better than the crowd, how the crowd will behave.

As I speak to mobile operators and handset manufacturers about the CloudMade business, it's clear that most of the players understand the value of their immense reach, and want to pick long-term partners with whom they can build a franchise in local search, local advertising and local geo services.

Garcia was picked long before May staged his duel with Woods in the P.G.A. Championship last weekend.

The following year, while a habitual criminal named Wes Purkey was in a Kansas state jail awaiting trial for murdering an 80-year-old woman, he said that he had picked Long up in his car, kidnapped and murdered her.

Mutations in general are far more likely to be harmful than helpful, and the large, helpful ones were low-hanging fruit that were picked long ago in our evolutionary history and entrenched in the species.

For months Fox has heavily promoted the premiere of "Dark Angel," an action series, even though it was scheduled for a date picked long ago as a likely one for a debate.