I apologise for the somewhat random nature of this column.

We jumped on, enjoying the random nature of our journey.

The skill of the writing lies in the way it wraps past and present, conveying the episodic, disjointed, random nature of memory.

He laughs at the random nature of their encounter.

Others refer to the random nature of war and who becomes an enemy.

Random graphs may be described simply by a probability distribution, or by a random process which generates them.

The observed phenomenon may be an essentially random process, or it may be an orderly, but noisy, process.

Session tokens should be chosen by a (pseudo-) random process.

The random process took on a 100 percent certitude.

The second random process can give rise to genetic mistakes.

The judges also found that a random search was not a breach of human rights.

They did not do so in pursuit of any major impropriety, but simply in a random search for political copy.

Random searches of young offenders, their parents and carers visiting the team's offices also take place, after police voiced their concern.

It will also conduct random searches.

There were early signs that the increased checkpoints and random searches of vehicles were reducing the level of violence.

The order of inductions within each age group would be determined by a lottery which matches a random sequence number with birth dates.

Bizarrely, it was the rapper's reputation for politeness which provided one of the key clues in untangling the message hidden in the random sequence of apparently hastily-scrawled numbers.

In this following random sequence, two of the words are very common and the others are compound forms.

To encipher a message, the operator sets the key wheels to a random sequence of letters.

When compared to a random sequence of scenes, the specific order of events seemed to be strongly associated with this similarity in brain activity.

He was given a random test at his home and the results were positive.

Some schools present them as simply another random test, instead of investing them with this fake, terrifying importance.

A random test on the contents of dried oregano has found that one in four samples contained ingredients other than that specified.

Thus, such semantically small faults are hard to find using random test data generation.

Random test generators range in scope from simple scripts and parameterized macros that can be created in a matter of weeks to full featured systems requiring extensive software development.

All 32 squads have been warned to expect random testing throughout the month-long tournament.

In the process we'll need to reinstate random testing and the gathering of intelligence from industry, both of which recently seem to have been lost.

The random testing would also include collecting samples of players' saliva.

Unlike in athletics, golfers do not have to give a one-hour time slot every day for random testing.

He has previously suggested that key stage testing of whole year groups should be replaced by random testing and teacher assessments that measure individual pupil progress.

You can get away with random thoughts that sound good in defense of a world view that ultimately doesn't make sense.

Due to a random thought triggered by a chance comment, he makes a vital connection that ultimately leads him to the identity of the true perpetrator.

I have some random thoughts on this: put simply, he eats too much, moves too little.

In the cut-and-paste world of texted chatroom dialogue, a conversation between two voices becomes a ping-pong match of random thoughts.

Elsewhere, there are diary entries, random thoughts and opinions, and sketches of scenes from romantic tales.

They may discern no obvious rules governing this strange and apparently random variation.

People live out their names to a greater degree than can be explained by random variation.

The quality of the opposition, random variation, the way the rest of the team play, all have an impact on performance.

Things are bad enough at the end of the season, where random variation often settles the winner of the title and who goes down.

This control can be subject to pure random variation or it can be influenced by external factors, such as nutrition.

Or maybe it's an alien space-pod that has somehow come to rest daintily on a seemingly random array of granite boulders.

Some thin thread connecting these seemingly random acts of criminal activity?

Currently, however, even seemingly random objections are probably founded on fact, even if things haven't been thought through.

Instead, however, he receives no money, just an envelope containing some seemingly random objects.

At some point during the first trip another student came up to me in a souvenir shop and asked me a seemingly random question.

It was a totally random event, but an extremely powerful one.

It was totally random and unprovoked.

They are totally random and completely unfounded.

Flats are packaged and sold in small quantities that are partially or totally random.

He would enter a shop and ask a member of staff confusing and totally random questions.