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Meaning selected meaning
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selected
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Simple sentences
She selected a blue dress from the wardrobe.
Those selected will have to face extensive medical and psychological tests.
She selected a hat to match her new dress.
He selected a pair of socks to match his suit.
He selected a Christmas gift for her.
The scrolling text on the display of my Internet radio gives me information about the selected station and the running program.
Congratulations! You've been selected to receive a free cruise to the Bahamas!
Tom was selected.
We selected the chairman by a vote.
You've been selected.
Tom has been selected.
Movie subtitles
Miss Flora has selected the church already. and I'm to be best man.
Oh, I see. But the refugees' numbers are selected as the applications come in.
You're well-trained, highly selected men, and we're glad to have you aboard.
I selected a more attractive hairdress for her.
I needed a respectable fool and naturally I selected a man whose fear of death might make him extremely cooperative.
As for myself. I'm happy I've been selected as pastor of St. Mary's.
The lord selected all the loveliest from both samurai and common families.
Well, I've selected several prospects suitable to a young lady in bereaved circumstances.
In view of the fact that counsel have agreed. that alternate jurors are not to be selected. may we proceed without making a call for additional prospective jurors?
They have been carefully selected to testify in this case. each representing a particular branch of American womanhood. for not only one woman is on trial here, but all women.
A day after our leave, we drew a 22-mile hike over terrain carefully selected.
Being that I'm the smartest, I was selected to make a speech of congratulation.
You are the men selected.
First, you were selected because you are the top engineering students here.
When director James Cameron selected the 86-year-old Gloria for a leading role in Titanic in 1996, yet another phase of her careers began.
I've selected you. -You mean I'm to go up to Chukoti, Sir?
I made a special arrangement of the Wedding March myself. and we have a group of specially selected guests to attend the wedding.
He's the man you selected from among you to defy me, to prey upon me, to threaten my life.
My small friend from Brazil was so anxious. to pay his respects to Your Grace that he selected his own method.
I selected this address with special care.
Only selected, robust mules and horses are capable of enduring such exertion of this the toughest mail delivery service in the world.
And let me tell you, a bracelet hastily presented is usually selected hastily, whereas a bracelet chosen with care.
They selected him as their dupe.
To Washington, in the weeks and months that followed Pearl Harbor. had come 76 carefully selected groups of candidates. for training and assignment to secret operations overseas.
The Academy this year, has selected for it's Banner Pupil.. It's model of intellectual youth. None other than Monsieur Charlemagne de La Tour La Tour.
As Minister of Public Communications, on behalf of my wife and myself, we wish to place on record the pride...we feel in being selected.
I don't want you men who are not selected to be disappointed.
The men who have been selected for sea school are present and accounted for, sir.
Now, all of you must remember the cards that you've selected.
The best ice-cream in the world, I've selected it personally!
And have I been selected for Kate against her wishes?
Who selected you?
He's been selected from the NCOs trying for the Saumur military academy.
The selected muster over there please.
Those selected by you will, of course, pool their interviews with the entire press corps and we will furnish you all necessary photos.
I have selected you to return with me. along with several other specimens for study.
On farms where these methods are used, the female is not fertilised by the male, but rather by selected semen contained in a test-tube.
He asked me to develop the film, and I've enlarged what he selected.
News and current affairs
For example, the General Assembly should hold public hearings in which candidates are interviewed, thereby greatly enhancing the stature of the candidate who is eventually selected.
Everywhere nowadays, key decisions are made by a self-selected group of elites, often in non-transparent circumstances.
It is also possible that the assassination of selected individuals has slowed the advance of Iranian nuclear efforts.
Instead, the US has selected Wall Street bankers and politicians, presumably to ensure that the Bank's policies are suitably friendly to US commercial and political interests.
A Supreme Court dominated by conservative factions has selected judges and prosecutors, and Afghans have little legal redress in a system that allows local commanders, who hold sway over the judiciary, to act with impunity.
Genetic engineering can be dated from man's recognition that animals and crop plants can be selected and bred to enhance desired characteristics.
But the second line of defense is macroprudential manipulation of capital requirements, to be applied across the board or to selected market segments, such as mortgages.
All other Chinese elections share two main characteristics: candidates are selected to preserve party leaders, and the leaders decide the number of candidates.
The Commission's new president, Jean-Claude Juncker, was the first ever to be selected based on his faction's strong showing in the European Parliament election.
In both countries, the President and executive branch (headed by a Prime Minister selected by the President) have basically waged war with Parliament during most of the post-Soviet era since 1991.
Elite French managers are widely considered among the best in the world, and are frequently selected to head major international corporations.
I can think of no better way to restore confidence in these two venerable institutions than to finally open up the way their presidents are selected.
This time, by contrast, the new development bank would take the lead in channeling scarce homegrown resources into selected productive investment.
This leaves further unilateral Israeli moves - such as a partial set of withdrawals from selected areas in the West Bank - as the only feasible option.
Its objectives also include boosting agriculture in the short to medium term in selected countries.
The FBI reportedly arrived in Tanzania with the names of 60 Muslims selected for interrogation.
The reforms have essentially enabled China to streamline research and development efforts, as well as technology transfers between selected components of its civil and commercial space programs.
Legislators in one chamber would be selected on the basis of merit and competency, and in the others on the basis of elections of some kind.
For example, in rural India, recruiters for well-paid back-office jobs visited randomly selected villages over a period of three years.
In contrast to rigged elections in which the victors are pre-determined, Iran's system allows competitive elections among pre-selected candidates.
The bases on the chip are selected because they are informative, tagging bins of the genome, like a post-code directory.
Even if the left wing of the European left - like the most liberal of America's Democrats - voices concerns that Obama has selected a far too centrist cabinet, a classical form of anti-Americanism is bound to recede in Europe.