Sentence examples for picked by random from inspiring English sources

Twenty-six percent would prefer the presidency be picked by random lottery.

That is, for some genes we obtain orderings which are worse than lists picked by random.

For both human and yeast datasets, GOSS scores of 4 and above are sufficiently rare that they are unlikely to be picked by random chance (<1 in 20).

Lucky reader Andrew S. was picked by our sophisticated random number generator as the winner of our show us your office contest!

But findings reported in the July Nature Genetics suggest that this strategy's payoff won't be around the corner: The most relevant single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), as these single-base variations are called, are too scarce to be picked up by random sampling.

Prisoners got wasted on the latest substance that couldn't be picked up by random jail drug tests, clubbers fell in love with E again and the media found a new drug to freak out about.

The neighbourhoods were picked by choosing towns in Iraq at random (the chance that a town would be picked was proportional to its population) and then, in a given town, using GPS the global positioning system to select a neighbourhood at random within the town.

(Outlines are due November 4th; the winner will be picked by Random House and the Puzo estate).

In February 2001, a sample of 204 people was picked up at random (random patient Id was generated by computer) and queried by phone.

Each of these people could have set up an account — whether to have an affair or out of curiosity — or been spoofed, set up by an ill-wisher, or picked at random by someone looking at his mailbox when signing up.

One of thousands of packages on board a cargo ship, the company's huge container had been picked at random by a computer to be X-rayed.