Sentence examples for words profile from inspiring English sources

When Senator McCain cast the decisive vote against repeal, Burns e-mailed three words—"Profile in courage"—to his friend Mark Salter, who is McCain's long-time adviser and former speechwriter.

By Hendrik Hertzberg August 12, 2008 The cover story in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine was a long (nearly eight thousand words) profile of Rush Limbaugh, the radio demagogue.

In a recent and exhaustive (more than 18,000 words) profile on Mr. Modi, Vinod Jose of The Caravan magazine talks to members of the Bharatiya Janata Party, government officials and Congress leaders, most of whom prefer to remain anonymous.

In other words, Profile HMMs are stochastic models which nicely capture salient features of a set of multiply aligned sequences.

George Zimmerman, by his own words, profiled a "suspect" - a young man out walking on a rainy evening, not very late, only 7pm.

In an odd ruling, Judge Debra Nelson decided that the word "profiling" — but not the phrase "racial profiling" — could be used in opening statements.

In other words, profile-based search methods possess a valuable combination of sensitivity, measured by their ability to recover positive control test cases, and selectivity than any of the other search methods used.

He was out-gunned the same day by feature writer Zoe Brennan who was given more than 2,000 words to "profile" Ebdon and his university, headlined "The man who wants to dumb down Britain's universities".

If David Simon gets a 10,000-word profile in the Paris Review, so too should Wainwright.

Jonathan Mahler spent a lot of time with Rice while building this 7,000-word profile for the New York Times.

A New Yorker staffer, James Kevin McGuiness, was the first to use the word "profile" to refer to a journalistic biographical sketch.