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I quote it at length, with O'Reilly's rather selective quotation in boldface.
He drew attention to the selective processes and motivations that form memories.
Conditions for the selective maintenance of stable polymorphisms by antagonistic pleiotropy are quite restrictive.
It takes the pressure off and you can be more selective about which races you back horses in.
His enduring fame, or infamy, rests on eugenics, which means, crudely, the selective breeding of humans.
Here we have the same selective process at work in a different field, but one that invites similar blind reactions.
It thus involves a selective rejection of those deemed different, a rejection that renders the latter undifferentiated.
Added to selective breeding is another step, another human act, that of using yeast to raise the bread or ferment the wine.
His jumped-up, passionate nature has already minoritised him with the US media and selective segments of power.
The triptans are specific and selective serotonin agonists that block serotonin receptors and the resultant neurogenic inflammation.
Time is treated kaleidoscopically, whether in selective moments, flashbacks or offstage voices from the past.
The dehydrogenation and selective hydrogenation reactors were run continuously and the product collected.
The acquisition of reading and writing skills was a socially selective process.
Yet Mother Nature is selective with her gifts, apportioning no more than necessary.
The bank remains reasonably upbeat about the Irish economy, but is taking a selective approach to its lending, here.
The example shown here is not a selective oddity, many rebated vehicles have low depreciation.
But I pointedly and publicly criticized my colleagues when they engaged in alarmism and selective reporting.
I don't go to a selective school, instead I've attended a private school since kindy.
All of these studies suggest that recombinase proteins, in their current form, have undergone selective pressure to limit their activities.
A comparison of mean group size among the five diet classes revealed that selective feeders form smaller groups than unselective feeders.
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