Sentence examples for probe the background from inspiring English sources

A senior industry journalist agreed with an executive now working for Icis-Heren, the company at the centre of the gas market rigging allegations, to probe the background of the whistleblower who first raised the issue.

I recently obtained a summary of the report, which explained that K2 was "asked to probe the background and integrity of S.R.G.'s principal shareholder, George Ramishvili, more deeply than a standard investigative or compliance report might".

From 2013 to 2014, a small film crew was allowed unprecedented access to the Bolshoi ballet company, partly to tell the story of the shocking acid attack on its artistic director, Sergei Filin, in January 2013, but also to probe the background to that event.

Measuring the eccentricity distribution accurately could help us probe the background and the formation of the mergers.

For each probe, the background median was subtracted from the foreground, samples were imported into GeneSpring GX11 (Agilent), any negative raw values were changed to 1.0, and each array was normalized by intensity-dependent Lowess normalization (Yang et al. 2002) (Agilent).

On the basis of the hypothetical example shown in Figure 1, we also computed using the same approach as in our real observed data except using access Euclidean distance instead of travel time, to probe the background effect under different distribution patterns in the theoretical examples.

These companies furnish reports for landlords to examine tenants, for banks to analyze borrowers, for insurance companies to figure out monthly rates and for employers to probe the backgrounds of potential hires — so they wield serious influence over our financial lives and futures.

He has probed the background of Omar Sheikh, the "perfect Englishman" who abruptly dropped out of the London School of Economics.

This week, Love That Max's Ellen Seidman probed the background of two viral phenomena related to children with special needs.

Investigators were probing the background of Artan, a Muslim who was a lawful permanent resident of the United States and a student at Ohio State.

For several probes, the background corrected and normalized data reported by Xia et al. (2007) included negative or zero intensity values in the red or green channels, which precluded calculating an M value [the red vs. green log-ratio; log2(red/green)].