Sentence examples for sought to detect from inspiring English sources

Federal whistle-blower laws date back to the Civil War, when the government sought to detect wrongdoing by suppliers to Union soldiers.

Across history, of course, spies have roamed the globe, and counterintelligence agents have sought to detect and apprehend them, or turn them back as traitors to their own sides.

The study sought to detect the interaction of iPods on pacemakers — a device notoriously vulnerable to EMF (remember the warnings on microwaves? Yeah, same thing).

We sought to detect specific collagen cross-links in human cervical tissue and determine whether cross-link profiles were similar at the internal and external os.

The present study sought to detect these trifling changes - expectantly reflecting axonal lesions, demyelination and/or conduction block - as assessed by tactile and painful threshold in order to correlate them with possible WM diffusional and GM morphological changes.

We sought to detect the distribution of soil liquefaction using the change in coherence of amplitude A, and to estimate the ground displacement in the InSAR analysis using phase information φ.

Meanwhile, sonar monitors seek to detect any noise in the vicinity, listening especially for the sound of propellers.

That test, called Holter electrocardiogram monitoring, which is typically performed as patients go about their regular daily activities, seeks to detect abnormal heartbeats.

Both the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness project and the ARDA research project seek to detect hidden patterns of activity in vast collections of digital data.

The lab's newest paper seeks to detect these hidden aspects in plots (primarily in Hamlet) by transforming them into networks.

In its field of view, Kepler looked over 150,000 stars, seeking to detect the slight dimming during transits as planets passed in front of their stars.