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selection

suh lek shuhn

  • n  the act of choosing or selecting
  • n  an assortment of things from which a choice can be made
    the store carried a large selection of shoes
  • n  the person or thing chosen or selected
  • n  a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
  • n  a passage selected from a larger work

  • They just deny that natural selection alone could have driven life all the way from pond scum to us.
  • For some clues about the selection process, check the Man of the Year Facts below or visit the Man of the Year archive-- then cast your vote!.
  • Richard Corliss goes beyond and beneath the website's selection of great movies: PLUS: Films dropped from the list Schickel's Cuts Corliss' Cuts.
News & Articles

  • Jury selection continues in Cipriano murder trial
    Jury selection continues Wednesday for Tucker Cipriano who along with Mitchell Young stands accused of beating Tucker ...
    June 12, 2013 - ClickOnDetroit
  • Jury selection in Trayvon Martin murder case moves slowly on second day
    By Barbara Liston SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - Jury selection moved slowly on Tuesday in the murder trial of George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer who claims self-defense in the February 2012 shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin. Selecting a jury to decide Zimmerman's fate in the racially charged case that captivated the United States for much of 2012 could ...
    June 11, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
  • Jury selection begins in baseball bat death
    Jury selection began Tuesday in the first-degree murder case against Manuel Bustamante, who is charged in connection to an April 18, 2012, murder in what turned out to be a case of mistaken identity.In all, 160 potential jurors were summoned to the Yuma Justice Center as...
    June 11, 2013 - The Yuma Sun
Quotes

  • Bill Clinton in Dallas Morning News
    He has shown a clear grasp of foreign policy and national security challenges. ...... The long, hard primary tested and strengthened him. And in his first presidential decision, the selection of a running mate, he hit it out of the park,Mr....
  • Lindsey Graham in MiamiHerald.com
    ...said that while he would not have chosen Sotomayor himself, President Barack Obama's decision to nominate the first Latina to the high court was "a big deal" and that "America has changed for the better with her selection."
  • Barack Obama in International Herald Tribune
    I've made the selection, that's all you're gonna get,Obama told reporters while campaigning in Virginia on Thursday.

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