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1. Karga are the most flavorful and tenderest, but cannot be run alone because they are selective eaters and may take as long as an oak tree to grow to marketable size
2. ‘You should be selective about what you believe about him in future
3. jaws of the dog gave credence to the talk about generations of selective breeding
4. The Directorate sent an entire graduating class from the Selective Service on a final training mission---sort of a graduation exercise---to monitor freight; that was it
5. Well the chief at that time was chummy with the director of Selective Services
6. Executive function as defined by Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child is a combination of working memory (aka, those 700 neural connections per second), selective and focused attention on important tasks (or self control), and mental flexibility – being able to revise a course of action based on changes in the environment
7. Elphinstone Emiclairsenne Tei I, born in the highlands, adopted daughter of the Matriarch of Lascor---and her chosen Heir---onetime captive of the Naud, and now pre-eminent Contractor of the Lascorii Selective Service renowned across the Alliance as: the Elf
8. But you must be selective
9. If he’d heard of Alistair Crowley or Nietzsche then he chose to have a selective memory, but Rita thought his heart was in the right place
10. selective memory or (post) determined arrangements or conveniences designed to appease troublesome assumptions…
11. The ―Mainstream‖ Media‘s selective biases; that is to say, its distortion of news worthy events, are intended to promote a ―sufficient‖
12. It takes time to become a fully-fledged member of a terrorist group for it a highly selective process which can take up to a year or more
13. I have become aware in recent months, and perhaps even longer, that Lucille chooses to recall her past by listening to very selective musical selections
14. Mashu looked quizzically at his father for a moment, but seemed already deep into his own thoughts, as they rested in the agony of selective survival
15. Some time ago NLP was a selective concept
16. It struck the invisible barrier and bounced away, the shield as selective and impenetrable as always
17. ” But this seemingly noble view too often translated to selective forgetting of much of the world’s history
18. Although America’s record was far from perfect, selective forgetting was one of the hallmarks of blind utopianism
19. Selective forgetting was not the same as the necessity of limiting one’s scope
20. With the eventual politicizing of our struggle against evil for the purpose of party control, selective forgetting set in and has worked to aid and comfort our enemy
21. Cuba’s history after the Spanish-American War involved a succession of dictators who practiced graft, corruption and selective suppression
22. In the clamoring world of PC enforcers “sensitivity” to “minority rights” is required in a manner that journalist William McGowan in his book Coloring the News shows to be selective at best
23. be selective in making their strategy decisions and think
24. Indubitably, his book exhibits a rather selective distillation of historic and geographic details, not the minutely and exhaustive documentary of the American writer who includes in his books detailed
25. Q: Why is love selective?
26. M: Love is not selective, desire is selective
27. They were not selective about the kind of women who they allowed to live with them, i
28. more selective about how they spend their money
29. Instead they have relied on the expedients of progressive taxation, deficit financing, selective nationalization, the mixed economy,
30. The self-object directs attention at the thought, but more than temporary selective attention, the thought tends to maintain a large value of the attentional field across time
31. selective, though, and I don‘t even know if she knows when she is telling
32. Also, their support of the Bill of Rights is highly selective: they would like to trash the Second Amendment, consistent with the dictates of the Jewish Left
33. As a counterpoint to Zinn’s selective imagery, I present below a citation from a scholarly source
34. On that tragic September 11 day, Coast Guard Captain of the Port of New York, Rear Admiral Richard Bennis, in coordination with the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey, reopened the harbor on a selective basis to commercial vessels while additional Coast Guard units were arriving from around the nation to supplement port security forces
35. selective times, mind you) a hard worker
36. Migration is always selective in certain circumstances, and at certain times
37. We believe it’s far better to be selective and allow the chosen to die a peaceful sleep-like death
38. To say we Primagnons are selective may sound snobbish, but it ‘s unavoidable
39. “Well, I suppose you can say I'm selective instead of hard to
40. Gāndhiji was very selective in using machines
41. “You seem to have a real selective ability
42. highly selective in the process
43. "We are being more selective in taking on clients because the publishers are demanding much more from the authors than ever before," says Laurence J
44. It was the first time I'd realised that history is not fact, it’s a selective recreation of the past – just as art is a selective recreation of reality
45. Yes I'm very selective of who I tell about my life
46. I reckoned I was being selective – a connoisseur
47. rationalizing by selective focusing
48. Thank God for enhanced airborne genetically selective viruses
49. All our plans were based on selective rationing
50. I have become more selective in what I scan into Tania as there is a large
