Because there are usually no physical signs to definitively diagnose irritable bowel syndrome, diagnosis is often a process of elimination.

CNN: Irritable bowel syndrome

By the process of elimination, industrials and materials sectors over-discount earnings recovery.

FORBES: Let 'Em Beat Up On Banks

They argue by process of elimination, since their dataset lacks household spending data, that households must spend the vast majority of their extracted funds on current consumption.

FORBES: Home Equity Extraction: Where Did All The Money Go?

This does have the downside of this system, in which the player may have to point his thumbstick in a range of directions while mashing the jump button until the correct move is reached by a process of elimination.

FORBES: Five year mission

Working outside the Senate, Snowe plans to press for a number of changes to promote civility and compromise: filibuster reform, an open amendment process, elimination of secret "holds" on legislation, authorization of two-year budgets and an end to so-called Leadership PACs, among others.

NPR: Snowe Presses For Bipartisanship In New Book

Obama has broken with many of his more conservative critics in opposing an elimination of the earmarking process.

CNN: Obama calls for overhaul of earmarks

The failure rate is low compared to the two-thirds of wafers that turn out to be unusable, and elimination of the lengthy process of growing the crystal from which wafers are cut could reduce manufacturing time from months to days.

ECONOMIST: Semiconductors

The same elimination process will happen at the end of the second 15 minutes, with the next six slowest cars knocked out to fill places 11 to 16 on the grid in lap-time order.

BBC: 1 G Fisichella (Renault) 1:33.840

The elimination or neutralisation of negative stereotypes would be part of that process.

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