Caught in the middle, Chinese increasingly sift for the truth on their own.

The Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,

Now so much information is so readily available that the challenge is to sift the wheat from the chaff.

It helps me do things that I cannot do for myself when I m trying to sift through my mail.

And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat

This is more democratic, no doubt, but it has made it harder for people to sift nonsense from truth, or demagoguery from rational political debate.

The incorporation of the Golden Fleece into the myth may have derived from the local practice of using fleeces to sift gold dust from rivers.

For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.

For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction and a bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

Imagine if you could record your life everything you said, everything you did, available in a perfect memory store at your fingertips, so you could go back and find memorable moments and relive them, or sift through traces of time and discover patterns in your own life that previously had gone undiscovered.

On a comment on his website in response to a reader's question he explains how he got the data by searching results of protest and uprising reports from mainstream media. Generally, the methodology was to sift through the first 1000 results of a news search on any given day and mine the unique events.