• Subsequently, all three brothers converge on the family home, not only arranging the funeral and burning their father's possessions in a garden pyre, but remaining in his house for months after their filial obligations are dispatched, sampling an aimless liberation.

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  • Being able to process every item of data in reasonable time removes the troublesome need for sampling and promotes an investigative approach to data, in contrast to the somewhat static nature of running predetermined reports.

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  • It hardly seems likely that an organization as prominent as Gallup simply overlooked an obvious sampling error.

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  • The tallies were based on an internal sampling of accounts done by reviewers, and Facebook says the numbers may represent the actual number.

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  • We made sure that sampling was kept to an absolute minimum.

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  • Other pieces were seized from grave robbers and smugglers, meaning that the 10, 000 gold objects in the Hermitage's collection are necessarily an accidental sampling of history.

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  • While Justice Kennedy agreed that DNA sampling constituted a search of an arrestee's body, he said he considered it a minor intrusion.

    WSJ: Supreme Court: Police Can Take DNA Samples in Arrests

  • As for the hundreds of millions of other potential customers, they may wait some time before buying their first car, and in the meantime they might be found riding in the back of an RE60, sampling the experience and hearing about it firsthand from pleased rickshaw drivers.

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  • Although no polls have been taken, an informal Main Street sampling shows Dukakis leading for the moment, though about one-third of the voters remain undecided.

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  • However, the researchers said that despite a lower number of invasive tests, the heavier reliance of this method on chorionic villus sampling earlier in pregnancy could actually mean an increase in the number of healthy babies lost if the miscarriage rate using this method was closer to 2%.

    BBC: Down's test miscarriage warning

  • While not an exact scientific measure, a sampling of U.S. doctrinal writings on IW could provide a useful frame of reference and possibly some context for comparison between Chinese and American thinking.

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  • Ms. Bonaffini examined a sampling of data from these states and it showed "an extremely high failure-to-report rate, " the document said.

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  • To find a chef for the hotel's Italian-themed Il Lago restaurant, a Four Seasons manager spent the summer traveling throughout Italy, sampling the gastronomic delights of various Michelin-starred chefs--an enviable task indeed.

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  • The reason for this seemingly dotty result is that the errors from scientific sampling are easier to quantify (and minimise) than those arising from an imperfect head-count.

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  • Someone watching a cable series at a friend's house can finish the program at home or on their mobile device, schedule their DVR to record an episode, even record the full season, just by sampling the screen for a second or two.

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  • An associate of mine was contracted to do intelligence testing on a sampling of postal workers.

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  • The suppliers of bond ETFs get around the liquidity problem by using representative sampling, which simply means tracking only a sufficient number of bonds to represent an index.

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  • It also carries the risk of producing an inaccurate picture of the overall distribution of moisture, as the spots chosen for sampling may be considerably damper or drier than the soil just a few metres away.

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