Voorbeelden van sifting

• They argued for a narrower focus, with more sifting of the data seeking entry to personality research.

• Authoritative sources remain necessary for scholarship - along with the sampling and sifting that help us to generate ideas and form research strategies.

• Observations were made three times a day by sifting the sand in order to record the number of pupae.

• Selection of a sample sufficiently large for aggregate analysis would involve considerable sifting of a sampling frame of all married couples.

• It could be a very useful piece of evidence in sifting through competing hypotheses for psychological design.

• Along the whole transect 7622 individual ants were collected by litter sifting.

• The cleaning and sifting of the debris found at the time of our work in the area was not very productive.

• This process of thorough searching for information can be very resource intensive, requiring staff time for searching and sifting the results.

• When sifting through the evidence, however, it is important not to miss the wood for the trees.

• By carefully sifting through a wide range of archival accounts (including mission accounts), the author has performed a very valuable service.

• All those appointed were experienced at sifting through complex issues and coming to reasonable conclusions based on evidence presented to them.

• Still, he shows here once again his uncanny ability in sifting through documentary material with an eye for the revealing episode and the telltale behaviour.

• After an initial sifting, the fine ashes were mixed with the bricks as part of the firing element, while the breeze or cinder was used as fuel for the kilns.

• Surely, then, the theological assumptions that are of most interest are those that remain after the process of sifting and checking for consistency has been completed.

• The usual methodology is to uphold the dictionary definitions while sifting through the historical archive for patterns or behavior that conform to or contradict the model.