| The average 90-shooter loses more strokes due to poor club and shot selection than to a bad swing or missed shot. |
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| The visual presentation was top class and the dish was accompanied by a selection of vegetables and rice. |
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| My girlfriend had vegetarian fajitas that were perfectly spiced to give a kick to a rather bland selection of vegetables. |
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| Scotland coach Matt Williams is absolutely right in restricting the selection of the national rugby team to home players. |
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| Sperm selection may thus be driven by the costs associated with inbreeding and outbreeding. |
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| But diet extends to a selection of birds including warblers and even swallows, wheatears and nightingales. |
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| This is a delightful festive show, divided into old-time music hall and a selection of Christmas songs and literary works through the ages. |
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| The network model without selection is also implemented in the directed acyclic graphs used in causal modeling. |
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| You can't finish the survey without clicking a radio button for each selection. |
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| The keystone of a strong trademark policy is proper selection of trademarks. |
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| Here, hearty staples can be washed down with a selection of moderately priced wines. |
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| You'll find a wide selection of fresh seafood, such as seared ahi tuna dusted with spices and served rare over noodles. |
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| Many specialist shops sell vouchers allowing the recipient to make a selection in their own good time. |
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| The interview is the most frequently used selection device and is often given the most weight in hiring decisions. |
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| The selection of a particular value for a benefit-cost or net benefit analysis must be carefully weighed against the objectives of the analysis. |
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| Today there is a much more diversified selection of games available, from war games to Eurogames. |
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| She took a small bowlful of cherries in defiance of the usual selection the women made of crackers spread thinly with jam. |
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| In the Cafe you can try a selection of their bread by ordering a basket of it with butter and a sharp but sweet strawberry jam. |
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| Rate variation among lineages is the footprint of selection and can be indicative of species radiations or differential structural constraints. |
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| To the delight of the crowd the pair jammed out a selection of Bob Marley classics and Fugees hits. |
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| The persistent charges of jury packing in Ireland led to calls for reform of the jury selection statutes. |
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| Even though France is justly famous for the most amazing dairy products on earth, for some reason, the milk selection is sorely lacking. |
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| At the farmers' market in the Lismore Showground on Saturday mornings there is a wonderful selection of fresh produce at very reasonable prices. |
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| Handcrafted items left on this day sometimes are juried by a craft selection committee who examine workmanship and salability. |
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| On Wednesday, their provisional 67-man squad is whittled down to produce a final 37-man selection for this summer's tour to Australia. |
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| Since junk DNA does not code for proteins, mutations can accumulate within it without natural selection weeding them out. |
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| Plasmid transformation, selection, and testing for recombinant clones were performed as described. |
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| Knowing your store has a magazine rack with a fresh selection of popular titles gives your customers yet another reason to stop by. |
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| It features a selection of products from wine to whiteware from a range of carefully selected suppliers representing well-known consumer brands. |
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| The durian, mango, rambutan, mangosteen, pineapple and other fruits are displayed in the market along with a large selection of seafood. |
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| Natural selection did not stop operating on brain genes once humanity developed into distinct races. |
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| Inside, the noise level really wasn't any worse than at the Bronze, though the music selection was abominable. |
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| To be a successful all-round grayling angler you need a selection of dry flies, nymphs and wet flies. |
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| The Indian breads selection includes some rare delicacies like the Kashmiri keema naan, and the Punjabi Makai Roti. |
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| Cutting down on the thunderous drives, he reined himself in, played the waiting game to perfection and showed great wisdom in shot selection. |
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| He walked over to the wall switch and flipped on the lights, then went to the wet bar and peered at the selection. |
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| Our data suggest that the performance paradigm can be expanded to reveal more of the physiological underpinning of natural selection in the wild. |
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| Most people came well prepared with plenty of rainwear and our group had a great selection of food! |
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| The narrative, livened by a selection of Argentinian political cartoons, demonstrates the power of applied economics. |
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| Most of the selection I saw was of the backless sort which tied like a halter top around the neck. |
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| The present Cabinet is really a rainbow coalition reflecting, or rather dictated by, the political reality at the time of selection. |
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| This is distinct from the notion of selection deriving from pressures exerted by the biotic and abiotic environment inhabited by the organism. |
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| This sort of pain is just what we would expect from natural selection, which is a jerry-builder. |
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| Two clicks on Magnatune queues a never-ending selection of our music in the genre of your choice. |
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| Part of my garden consists of a patio on which I have many pots housing a selection of Japanese acers, begonias, marigolds and nasturtiums. |
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| Typically the new apparel has been purchased on a whim since the user is aware that the existing pant selection is starting to show its age. |
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| The curators were judicious in their selection of authors for the exhibition catalogue. |
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| This judicious selection means less than 200 garments worldwide will be produced. |
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| The back garden has a deck area, outdoor lighting, a water feature and two raised flowerbeds containing a selection of mature plants and shrubs. |
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| A selection of books are on display with a summary of the story covering the book jacket. |
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| Canadian Wallyball has the largest selection of wallyballs in Canada, from recreational to the top pro competition balls. |
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| On this webpage we provide a selection of web links that are all related in some way to wireless ad hoc networking. |
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| I also carry a good selection of straight peacock wagglers for fishing further out and when there is not much flow in Winter. |
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| Anglers had a selection of baits with them lugworm, ragworm mackerel, sandeel and peeler crab to catch that winning fish. |
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| As if to counter the accusations of snootiness, not every selection is wilfully obscure. |
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| For boys, the range features a selection of outdoors clothes with drawstring trousers and kagouls. |
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| At the 1998 Nagano Olympics, he was rapped by Bazay for criticizing the selection of freestyle skier Jean-Luc Brassard as Canada's flag-bearer. |
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| The pub has now expanded its real ale selection and will be serving a range of local beer over the coming months. |
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| There is no burning desire by the rank and file members of a party to take part in the selection processes. |
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| Now that everyone in the store was informed of the fact that I was on the rag, I made my selection and took it up to the counter. |
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| Throw a selection of likely-looking away wins into an accumulator and you could be quids in come the close season. |
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| Natural selection is an agency of adaptive change which operates between generations. |
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| Last time around poor selection decisions and an even poorer campaign meant they were well out of the running. |
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| The Warriors players were hand-picked for the advert after weeks of selection procedures which ended with a mad dash to the final audition straight after a game. |
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| Natural selection is a mechanical process with no foresight, which can only blindly favor short-term gain. |
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| It's not news, of course, that the Supreme Court's one-person, one-vote standard applies to reapportionments but not to the selection of presidents. |
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| On the House side, Speaker John Boehner's selection of Jeb Hensarling to serve as co-chair also reeked of hyperpartisan hackery. |
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| South Africa were in the process of being whitewashed by Australia anyway, but once the selection was made they rolled over to have their tummies tickled. |
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| These days, the university operates a system of selection that is the envy of Oxbridge and many raw-boned cartilaginous youths are broken on the altar of inaccessibility. |
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| It serves small plates like cheese, charcuterie, and sandwiches, but most come here for the impressive wine selection. |
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| Our rigid weldmesh panels are available in galvanized lengths which can be powder coated to suit your requirements in a large selection of almost any colour. |
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| Under the ecological theory of adaptive radiation, adaptation and reproductive isolation are thought to evolve as a result of divergent natural selection. |
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| Should the selection of the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court be quarterbacked by a man who is currently the subject of an on-going criminal investigation? |
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| Its members would not be beholden to any special interest groups, at all, for their selection. |
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| It has a good selection of optional accessories including a Bluetooth headset and the loop set that allows you to use the phone with a suitable hearing aid. |
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| A selection of delicate pastries, banana slices, glazed fudge, lemon tarts, scones with clotted cream and jam, and boiled Welsh fruit cake were also on offer. |
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| The game selection in my dish included venison, rabbit and pigeon. |
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| Unlinked genes may also be associated if biological processes, such as population differentiation, population admixture, and natural selection, occur in a population. |
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| Thus, natural selection should favor parasitoids that utilize as kairomones only the chemicals that uniquely and reliably identify potential hosts. |
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| The lucky recipient gets to choose from a selection of gifts ranging from cocktail kits to packages of wine and premium spirits. |
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| I had not worked on genetics since, as a Cambridge undergraduate, I had published juvenilia on polymorphisms maintained by single locus selection. |
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| The shop not only sells a large selection of bridal wear, but also has bridal packages, beauty treatments and a range of other services all under one roof. |
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| I hung up and went to check out the selection on the jukebox. |
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| There is a selection of imported fruit juices and soft drinks. |
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| When we were bored, I would take my gang along to dad's shop, play with his vast selection of nails and knives and generally bother him until he sent us packing. |
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| Darwin was a British Scientist who developed the theory of evolution and natural selection. |
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| The ensemble was established to explore a very varied repertoire for the brass quintet, through a wide-ranging selection of music from Renaissance to twentieth Century. |
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| This is a method to analyze habitat selection of a bush-cricket. |
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| Natural selection relies crucially on the idea of heredity, but developed before the basic concepts of genetics. |
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| This synthesis cemented natural selection as the foundation of evolutionary theory, where it remains today. |
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| The term natural selection is most often defined to operate on heritable traits, because these directly participate in evolution. |
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| Following Darwin's primary usage, the term is used to refer both to the evolutionary consequence of blind selection and to its mechanisms. |
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| This gives the appearance of purpose, but in natural selection there is no intentional choice. |
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| Artificial selection is purposive where natural selection is not, though biologists often use teleological language to describe it. |
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| Alternatively, selection can be divided according to its effect on genetic diversity. |
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| Another option is to classify selection by the life cycle stage at which it acts. |
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| There is an ongoing debate over the degree to which group selection occurs in nature. |
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| Finally, selection can be classified according to the resource being competed for. |
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| Natural selection is seen in action in the development of antibiotic resistance in microorganisms. |
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| When such mutations result in a higher fitness, natural selection favours these phenotypes and the novel trait spreads in the population. |
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| Natural selection acts on an organism's phenotype, or physical characteristics. |
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| Some forms of balancing selection do not result in fixation, but maintain an allele at intermediate frequencies in a population. |
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| When genetic variation does not result in differences in fitness, selection cannot directly affect the frequency of such variation. |
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| Natural selection reduces genetic variation by eliminating maladapted individuals, and consequently the mutations that caused the maladaptation. |
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| The social implications of the theory of evolution by natural selection also became the source of continuing controversy. |
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| The formation of Botryllus multichimeras sets the 'group level' as the key level at which natural selection acts. |
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| Hence, an adaptation of the context similarity-based selection method to multiclassification problems remains an interesting future task. |
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| Its selection instigated some public controversy and criticism relating both to characteristics of Pinter's work and to his politics. |
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| Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection undermined religious certainty and the idea of human uniqueness. |
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| When, in 1980, a selection of his letters was published, his reputation became the subject of further discussion. |
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| The event was recorded, and a selection of songs on which he had contributed joint vocals were subsequently released. |
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| The trailer used a selection from the soundtrack for Braveheart and The Shawshank Redemption among other cuts. |
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| My solution was that the doctrine of natural selection is a most successful metaphysical research programme. |
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| I still believe that natural selection works in this way as a research programme. |
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| The theory of natural selection may be so formulated that it is far from tautological. |
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| Thus not all phenomena of evolution are explained by natural selection alone. |
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| For Popper, theories are accepted or rejected via a sort of selection process. |
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| Leinster, Munster and Ulster combined are limited to one player at each position who is not eligible for Ireland selection. |
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| Those in the Royal Enclosure have the options of fine dining and hospitality, and a selection of bars. |
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| William Charles Wells, predecessor to Charles Darwin on the theory of natural selection was another schooled in Dumfries. |
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| Rosebery's selection was largely because Queen Victoria disliked most of the other leading Liberals. |
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| Each participating nation holds its own national selection event to chose its representatives at the Festival. |
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| The event also acts as a national selection process to determine the Breton representative for the annual Pan Celtic Festival. |
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| In 2015, the selection show was held at the Seven Oaks Hotel, in Carlow, on 7 March. |
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| A selection of original Cambrian Railways coaches have survived into the present day. |
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| In closed list systems, each party lists its candidates according to the party's candidate selection process. |
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| Welsh Labour has autonomy in policy formulation for those areas now devolved to the Welsh Assembly, as well as candidate selection for that body. |
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| If your date isn't into raw fish, the menu lists a sizable selection of nonsushi entrees. |
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| In July 2013 three soldiers died from overheating or heatstroke on an SAS selection exercise. |
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| The mountain is used by the military as part of the selection process of the UK's Special Forces personnel. |
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| Dimorphisms can also be the product of intrasexual selection between males and females. |
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| The following table shows a selection of nouns from the Swadesh list and indicates their pronunciations and etymologies. |
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| The selection of Bradley marked the first time a Premier League club had ever hired an American manager. |
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| A wide selection of serials are available from BBC Video on DVD, on sale in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and the United States. |
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| A selection of intimate shows to promote the album were played on 12, 13 and 14 April 2007 in intimate coastal venues in the south of England. |
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| The selection of electricity production modes and their economic viability varies in accordance with demand and region. |
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| Charles Darwin's 1859 book The Origin of Species explained how species could arise by natural selection. |
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| Darwin argued that it was populations that evolved, not individuals, by natural selection from naturally occurring variation among individuals. |
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| Charles Darwin was the first to describe the role of natural selection in speciation in his 1859 book The Origin of Species. |
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| Another factor that leads to the development of dimorphisms in species is natural selection. |
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| The mining engineer is responsible for the selection and proper placement of these explosives, in order to maximize efficiency and safety. |
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| One of the earliest and most critical tasks in a submarine pipeline planning exercise is the route selection. |
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| Each dish is designed to be sampled and diners can go through a large selection of dim sum quickly accompanied by a generous amount of good tea. |
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| The attendant consequences on viability and population levels fell within the sphere of natural selection. |
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| Potential solutions include predictive interference modeling as a component of site selection. |
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| In 1923, the International Committee of the Red Cross adopted a change in its policy regarding the selection of new members. |
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| Aggressive behavior in brown bears is favored by numerous selection variables. |
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| Diversity appears to increase continually in the absence of natural selection. |
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| One theory suggests that selection has led males to be smaller because it allows them to be efficient foragers. |
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| When cultivated, the size, shape and branch density are determined by rootstock selection and trimming method. |
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| The apple tree was perhaps the earliest tree to be cultivated, and its fruits have been improved through selection over thousands of years. |
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| A truly red bearded iris, like a truly blue rose, remains an unattained goal despite frequent hybridizing and selection. |
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| It is easy to see how diversifying selection could result in the formation of parapatrically distributed races. |
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| In biology, Darwinism gained acceptance, promoting the concept of adaptation in the theory of natural selection. |
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| Statistical methods offer the ability to enforce parsimonious selection of the most influential potential predictors of each gene's state. |
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| The selection criteria for the site do not include its geomorphic interest. |
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| The principal mechanism for evolution is natural selection among diverse populations. |
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| Scant details have survived regarding the criteria used by the Portuguese government in its selection of Cabral as head of the India expedition. |
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| Ultimately, food selection by cod is affected by the food item size relative to their own size. |
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| He supported the Cluniac order and played a major role in the selection of the senior clergy in England and Normandy. |
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| Even after the investiture dispute, the King continued to play a major role in the selection of new English and Norman bishops and archbishops. |
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| A selection of programmes is also available as podcasts or downloadable audio files. |
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| Differences in female and male coat color may indicate nutrition and hormone levels, important in mate selection. |
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| Quite a few seed merchants and banks provide a large selection of heirloom seeds. |
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| Careful selection and breeding have had enormous effects on the characteristics of crop plants. |
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| There is evidence to support that antler size influences mate selection in the red deer, and has a heritable component. |
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| Sura is also described as telling Hadrian in 108 about his selection as imperial heir. |
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| This practice vastly increases the number of offspring which may be produced by a small selection of the best quality parent animals. |
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| Important aspects of husbandry at these early stages include selection of breeding stock, control of water quality and nutrition. |
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| Without the ability to recombine during meiosis, the Y chromosome is unable to expose individual alleles to natural selection. |
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| Without the ability to isolate alleles, selection cannot effectively act upon them. |
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| While he was exploring the archipelago, he refined his thoughts about evolution and had his famous insight on natural selection. |
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| Montevideo, the country's capital, houses the most diverse selection of cultural activities. |
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| Twelve years in the research and writing, his work was a History Book Club selection published by the Pennsylvania State University Press. |
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| Selective sweeps occur when an allele becomes more common in a population as a result of positive selection. |
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| In most cases, active shooters use firearms and there is no pattern or method to their selection of victims. |
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| The choir sang a selection of Christmas anthems at the service just before the big day. |
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| I hope that the selection of stories is illuminating for those who have never thought about what happened after the death of the immortal Bard. |
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| The candidate selection for running mate has catapulted her to the national scene. |
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| She catapulted to the national scene following her selection by the candidate. |
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| There's a cheap and cheerful coffee shop on the next street which sells quite a good selection of sandwiches. |
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| To estimate heritable variance of ES, the coheritability of ES was derived using selection index theory. |
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| He was on the fringes of Test selection last year before a shoulder injury cruelled his chances. |
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| There are two ways you can defloat a selection, or cause it to merge with your image. |
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| There I found a selection of slimming pills, and without thinking I swallowed several of the drinamyl tablets. |
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| In contrast, the drosophilas of Hawaii owe their oddity entirely to the whims of natural selection. |
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| Relaxing the stern Ansible rule of omitting mere egoboo, here's a selection from the 'Gosh, isn't 300 a shiny round number' postbag. |
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| A collaboration between KeSPA and MLG brought a selection of StarCraft professionals to the USA for an exhibition tournament. |
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| Animal social behaviours, such as altruism, now yielded to genocentric theories such as kin selection and reciprocal altruism. |
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| Whether they figured immediate selection for gravedom, by pointing skeletal finger, was about to commence, or what, I don't know. |
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| These guessings of ours, for they are more than half guessings, may throw a glimmer of light on the mystery of doll selection. |
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| Meanwhile, selection strongly favored responders that accepted fair or hyperfair offers. |
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| Moreover, two genomic regions strongly responded to selection for thermal tolerance in interlatitudinal crosses. |
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| The Act extended to England and Ireland, but not to Scotland, whose Estates had not been consulted before the selection of Sophia. |
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| The increased dip and faulting restricted the selection of route on the French side. |
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| But instead of a match the 12,000 crowd saw a short athletics meeting followed by a selection of music and a fireworks display. |
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| He later called his theory natural selection, an analogy with what he termed the artificial selection of selective breeding. |
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| Darwin's book was only partly written when, on 18 June 1858, he received a paper from Wallace describing natural selection. |
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| He wrote most of a second part, on natural selection, but it remained unpublished in his lifetime. |
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| Darwin himself insisted that social policy should not simply be guided by concepts of struggle and selection in nature. |
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| He is particularly sceptical about the practical possibility or importance of group selection as a basis for understanding altruism. |
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| Wilson's 2012 book The Social Conquest of Earth as misunderstanding Hamilton's theory of kin selection. |
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| Once this is done a figure relating the current to the torque can be used as a useful parameter for motor selection. |
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| The importance of natural selection as a cause of evolution was accepted into other branches of biology. |
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| This generates a legacy of effects that modify and feed back into the selection regime of subsequent generations. |
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| Natural selection will only cause evolution if there is enough genetic variation in a population. |
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| The beer selection is mainly limited to beers brewed by that particular company. |
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| But with blending inheritance, genetic variance would be rapidly lost, making evolution by natural selection implausible. |
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| Mechanisms that can lead to changes in allele frequencies include natural selection, genetic drift, genetic hitchhiking, mutation and gene flow. |
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| The central concept of natural selection is the evolutionary fitness of an organism. |
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| Natural selection most generally makes nature the measure against which individuals and individual traits, are more or less likely to survive. |
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| This broad understanding of nature enables scientists to delineate specific forces which, together, comprise natural selection. |
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| Natural selection can act at different levels of organisation, such as genes, cells, individual organisms, groups of organisms and species. |
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| Selection at a level above the individual, such as group selection, may allow the evolution of cooperation, as discussed below. |
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| But when selection is weak, mutation bias towards loss of function can affect evolution. |
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| In parasitic organisms, mutation bias leads to selection pressures as seen in Ehrlichia. |
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| It is usually difficult to measure the relative importance of selection and neutral processes, including drift. |
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| Most prominent are the specific behavioural and physical adaptations that are the outcome of natural selection. |
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| Other processes that may promote cooperation include group selection, where cooperation provides benefits to a group of organisms. |
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| Concepts and models used in evolutionary biology, such as natural selection, have many applications. |
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| Artificial selection is the intentional selection of traits in a population of organisms. |
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| Saycast enables members to livecast their own music selection to a wider audience while chatting. |
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| Moreover, attempting to reduce one problem, say adverse selection by mandating insurance, may add to another, say moral hazard. |
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| These religious leaders were suspicious of Darwin's theory, and believed that natural selection needed to be supplemented by another process. |
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| This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria. |
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| The Act also defined a procedure by which local communities could petition for a ballot for an end to selection at schools. |
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| Many grammar schools have featured in these programmes, and a lower level of selection is permitted at specialist schools. |
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| Depending on the culture and the purpose of the listing, only the highest degree, a selection of degrees, or all degrees might be listed. |
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| Scholars have criticized IBR plans on the grounds that they create moral hazard and suffer from adverse selection. |
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| Once the application has been accepted, an examination is made by the selection committee. |
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| Free houses can, but do not necessarily, serve a varied selection range of guest beers. |
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| On December 21, 1844, they opened their store with a very meagre selection of butter, sugar, flour, oatmeal and a few candles. |
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| Hitchcock himself was not actually involved in the reading, reviewing, editing or selection of the short stories. |
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| Most of the artists nominated for the prize selection become known to the general public for the first time as a consequence. |
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| Netball is not a required sport and has missed selection, particularly when former French or American territories host the games. |
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| Therefore, unlike other methods of controlling the fox population, it is argued that hunting with dogs resembles natural selection. |
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| From 1872 to 1953, and 1954 to 1957, the Scotland national team was appointed by a selection committee. |
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| The following players have also been called up to the Germany squad within the last 12 months and are still available for selection. |
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| Recon Group were selected to take over Aston Villa following a selection process by the club. |
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| The 1899 Ashes series was the first tour where the MCC and the counties appointed a selection committee. |
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| Uncontracted players remain eligible for selection and can be upgraded to a Cricket Australia contract if they gain regular selection. |
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| The selection process for the 1908 Summer Olympics consisted of four bids, and saw Rome selected ahead of London, Berlin and Milan. |
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| On 6 July 2005, the final selection was announced at the 117th IOC Session in Singapore. |
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| The entire list was a selection of large stadiums spread across the country. |
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| In the early contests the teams were generally decided by a selection committee but later qualification based on performances was introduced. |
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| Prospective BBGs are first nominated by their school headteacher, to be considered for selection. |
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| The joke originates from the comedy show I'm Alan Partridge, in which the title character pitches a selection of ideas for television shows. |
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| Since 1983, Louis Vuitton has sponsored the Louis Vuitton Cup as a prize for the winner of the challenger selection series. |
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| The Enterprise's skipper Harold Vanderbilt won the selection trials with great difficulty. |
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| In 2003, several strong challengers vied for the right to sail for the cup in Auckland during the challenger selection series. |
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| The wishes of these communities must be a principal consideration in the selection of the Mandatory. |
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| The WAA also control the selection and management of representative teams competing for Wales at international events. |
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| Faced with a mindboggling selection of special-purpose shampoos, he gave up and simply purchased something inexpensive with a pleasant fragrance. |
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| Naturalist Charles Darwin, authored On the Origin of Species and discovered the principle of evolution by natural selection. |
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| The transmission system must include a means of television channel selection. |
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| The GLA is unique in the British local government system, in terms of structure, elections and selection of powers. |
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| The station offers a wide selection of music and news within the island and also on the internet for Montserratians living overseas. |
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| Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype. |
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| In other words, natural selection is a key process in the evolution of a population. |
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| While genotypes can slowly change by random genetic drift, natural selection remains the primary explanation for adaptive evolution. |
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| In 1859, Charles Darwin set out his theory of evolution by natural selection as an explanation for adaptation and speciation. |
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| For Darwin and his contemporaries, natural selection was in essence synonymous with evolution by natural selection. |
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| These inherited traits result from a combination of natural crosses and artificial selection methods. |
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| When considering where to construct an ethanol plant, one of the site selection criteria is to ensure there is locally available feedstock. |
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| Alternatively, a new variety may be defined as a selection of features from existing varieties. |
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| For example, in English definiteness is usually marked by the selection of determiner. |
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| However, they could not agree on the selection of the judging authority, the location of the debate, and the use of the Swiss Diet as a court. |
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| Law reports or reporters are series of books that contain judicial opinions from a selection of case law decided by courts. |
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| An extensive selection of letters to Claire Castletown, in Ireland, is included in Honorable Justice, The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes. |
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| Many contracts contain a forum selection clause setting out where disputes in relation to the contract should be litigated. |
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| Rule 47 provides for the selection of jurors and rule 48 governs the number of jurors in a civil case. |
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| There was no randomness in the teacher's selection of the class representative. |
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| Once on the list, candidates are free to apply for selection in any constituency. |
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| The selection for Sedgefield did not begin until after the 1983 general election was called. |
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| At the last minute, he was added to the shortlist and won the selection over Huckfield. |
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| The reasons were that distrusting entrepreneurs would emphasize failure avoidance through sensible task selection, and more analysis. |
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| A selection of DVDs containing all text and the many drawings studied are also included in the archive. |
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| The results of Cumbria's championships guide selection of the county teams to compete in the English Schools Athletic Association Championships. |
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| With proper species selection for the local climate, mosses in green roofs require no irrigation once established and are low maintenance. |
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| The festival offers a choice of around 100 real ales as well as a selection of ciders and foreign beers. |
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| After Shadwell's selection the laureate was appointed by the Lord Chamberlain, on the monarch's instructions. |
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| There are many minor crossings of the Don in this area, so only a selection of bridges is covered in this section. |
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| There is one selection for hot chocolate. All selectors are the push button type. |
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| Each month, 10 household clusters were selected, with the probability of selection being proportional to the population size in the district. |
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| As with favorites, you can unreject a rejected selection by selecting it and then clicking the Unmark Selection button I just mentioned. |
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| These claims imperfectly address whether there was adverse selection by focusing simply on coverage demographics. |
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| There is also fear that adverse selection issues will tilt the balance toward a less healthy insured population. |
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| Mandates serve to help attract low-risk individuals, which is necessary to prevent adverse selection to keep the health insurance markets viable. |
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| Formes is the freshest of the major maternity chains, but the staid selection is more French-mumsy than yummy-mummy. |
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| There was the usual selection of hummus and baba ganoush, a chunky butter bean and feta cheese mash, tangy labneh, and olives and fresh bread. |
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| Vail s selection was part of the ABOS Board of Directors selecting its 2015-16 officers and electing two new directors-elect. |
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| Water Cannon continually adds new equipment to an already vast selection to go above and beyond in the industry for customers. |
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| For an anthurium and lily bouquet, prices range from pounds 50 for a standard size and pounds 70 for a deluxe selection. |
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| They served various delicious dishes, but my eye was drawn to their quiche and tart selection. |
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| Highlights include a selection of sleek timber tools, such as the beechwood Flo grinder, oakbark board and antipasti platter. |
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| The validating survey was given in two formats, with the triadic instruments and as a typical selection of three radio buttons. |
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| Hearst is a major railhead, highway and pipeline junction, a factor that played heavily into MEMS site selection. |
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| Afternoon coffee at Kaffeeklatsch, just down the road from the Congress Centre, with a fine selection of home-made cakes. |
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| An experimental test of the link between foraging, habitat selection and thermoregulation in black rat snakes Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta. |
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| We know little about the role of these constraints on crop domestication, nor how artificial selection can escape them. |
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