That's why I like the multi-stage collapse notion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?] Reference

In a multi-stage process, first small pieces of skin are sterilized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skin From A Factory | Impact Lab] Reference

This is handy for multi-stage processing and manually reviewing edits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

Management of X-rays, you see, is very important in a multi-stage weapon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sum of all Fears]

And now the country is holding a month-long multi-stage vote for parliament.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2005] Reference

Treatment costs could be reduced by using a multi-stage filtration technique.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

Indeed they could air-launch a multi-stage rocket that carries a space plane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astronaut Office Weighs In (Officially) On Ares/Orion/EELVs - NASA Watch] Reference

Sometimes six birds only represent the first wave of a multi-stage covey flush.    From Wordnik.com.  [Which Bird Would You Shoot First?] Reference

Extricating itself from the housing market is just one part of this multi-stage balancing act.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Schurenberg: Bernanke to Housing Market: Please Don't Drop Dead] Reference

Normally proposals for Bank projects wend their way through a tedious multi-stage vetting process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Councils of War] Reference

It is the usually multi-stage pipline of software analysis of raw sensor signals that is interesting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Acquiring UAV Technology] Reference

The multi-stage rebrand includes a new on-air graphics package as well as an anthem promo launch campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Military Channel’s New Brand Identity Launches « Art & Business of Motion] Reference

P+e would then be a bootstrap sample from P, and the whole thing would be a multi-stage bootstrap process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bürger and Cubasch Discussion « Climate Audit] Reference

Brought together by the power of the Stranger, the two duos went head to head in a multi-stage competition.    From Wordnik.com.  [BReAKING: Streetbeat Win Ultimate Dance Championship | Seattle Metblogs] Reference

It should have sounded more like I was probing for barriers to entry for my multi-stage stalking Scalzi plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wiscon 30/06 « Whatever] Reference

This is a really arcane, multi-stage process that relies on delegates, essentially shutting out the average voter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary's Michigan Co-Chair: Revote Probably Wouldn't Affect The Race Much] Reference

Only 11% invest solely in late and/or growth-stage companies, while the remaining 38% have a multi-stage strategy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Study Signals Slow Shift] Reference

Gustafson (2006) develops an extended and multi-stage argument against understanding pain as a sensory experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pain] Reference

Breast cancer is considered to be a multi-stage, multi-factor process that involves genetic and non-genetic factors.    From Wordnik.com.  [That's another fine mess you've made Jonathan! - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The Walter Jon Williams method – Like a multi-stage rocket or multi-act play, with one huge reversal in each stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cat Rambo] Reference

He'd already come to the same depressing conclusion ... and if Ferrol was doing a multi-stage Jump here, then he was gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warhorse]

An institutional book-build on Tuesday and Wednesday will be followed by a multi-stage retail offer from May 17 to June 4.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transurban To Buy Lane Cove Tunnel] Reference

But the GSS, like nearly all large surveys of the general public, is a multi-stage probability sample, not a random sample.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Sex and Money Study Is Misleading.–] Reference

The tryout process is multi-stage, and I haven't even managed to clear the first hurdle - the basic safety assessment - yet.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Was Then, This Is Now] Reference

Of course, being a multi-stage bread purist, maybe I'll concoct a starter for this and finish it later. oh yeah, I'm actually back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rye Bread] Reference

A MAP is a multi-stage process of political dialogue and military reform to bring a candidate country in line with Nato standards.    From Wordnik.com.  [POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Friday, April 23, 2010] Reference

North Korea launched a multi-stage rocket on Sunday morning, which apparently failed in its goal of putting a satellite into space.    From Wordnik.com.  [White House Blasts Rocket Launch] Reference

The 2010 Chrysler PT Cruiser and Jeep Wrangler are equipped with standard advanced multi-stage front driver and passenger air bags.    From Wordnik.com.  [Most Dangerous Vehicles Of 2010] Reference

(Why can't WE think in terms of multi-stage strategies, but to instead increase public understanding and appreciation of democracy?).    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Johnson: Corporate Tax Trickery] Reference

A chemical trail does not convey spontaneity; at least not the complex, multi-stage type that one would expect to see leading to a cell.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Interesting Pattern] Reference

For young people, a number of states have instituted graduated licensing laws that help build driving experience through a multi-stage program.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drowsy drivers: Study finds motorists asleep at the wheel] Reference

We often forget that the C compiler is really a multi-stage pipeline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Python] Reference

Product: a serious multi-stage formula that anticipates the body's needs for pre, during and post-race nutrition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wil's Ebay E-Store]

The common type of battery charger most companies manufactured is the multi-stage chargers, or known as 'smart chargers'.    From Wordnik.com.  [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference

Its incredible exhaust note is possible by the multi-stage exhaust system that exits through a stacked trio of exhaust outlets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Speed] Reference

The multi-stage investment firm, which is focused on technology and innovation, has offices in Menlo Park, Waltham, Mass. and Israel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dallas Business News - Local Dallas News | Dallas Business Journal] Reference