Sentence examples for shorter portion from inspiring English sources

The New Testament is by far the shorter portion of the Christian Bible, but, through its associations with the spread of Christianity, it has wielded an influence far out of proportion to its modest size.

As you live more of your life, each moment becomes a shorter portion of your life.

To definitively validate quail p27 mRNA as a target of miR-221/222, the full-length p27-3'UTR of quail mRNA and a shorter portion containing two identified target sites for these miRNAs were cloned downstream to the luciferase coding region of the pGL3 reporter vector.

Long (>15 nucleotide) primers match specifically with a designed target sequence, but they can also match to sequences that are complementary to shorter portions of the primer.

Swapping shorter portions of the C-terminus did not support formation of a functional DDK with Sc Dbf4, suggesting that the region encompassing amino acid residues 449-561 of Sc Cdc7 is required for interaction with Sc Dbf4.

He was the de facto head coach when Payton missed a short portion of last season with a knee injury.

The hearing was closed to the media except short portion at the beginning in which the prisoner's representative reads a prepared statement.

Ms. Tomlin said the impetus came after she and Ms. Wagner showed a short portion of "Search" to students in a workshop at the University of Southern California.

President Bush did not initially watch the television coverage of Mr. Hussein's court appearance, but at around midday he stepped out of the Oval Office into an adjoining room to watch a short portion of the tape that was being replayed by one of the news networks, Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, said.

And on an upper floor there is a short portion of the exhibition devoted to Chinese Marxism, referring to the Long March led by Mao in the 1930's as a "mythologized" event and speaking of the massacre of thousands of students and others during the violent suppression of the Tiananmen democracy movement in China in 1989.

A short portion of the beam is used as an active block.