Similar words: selective service, elective, selection, collective, reflective, natural selection, collectively, collective farm. Meaning: [sɪ'lektɪv] adj. 1. tending to select; characterized by careful choice 2. characterized by very careful or fastidious selection.
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121. It is inevitably highly selective, both in the Acts it covers and in what it includes from each Act.
122. A large number of smaller companies there have been receiving regional selective assistance since the middle 1980s.
123. We used selective media and phenotypic and genomic typing systems to investigate the acquisition of P cepacia by adults with cystic fibrosis.
124. Perhaps it is Upjohn that is being highly selective regarding evidence on serious psychiatric reactions to triazolam.
125. One option would be to increase the £120m regional selective assistance budget, channelled into businesses in struggling areas.
126. What about Manchester - virtually everyone there has applied for selective financial assistance?
127. Eating and Drinking in Edinburgh is a selective guide but omission from its pages should not be regarded as implying criticism.
128. These leaders need to recognize the need to be highly selective about what to incorporate into their operations.
129. I can quote some of the figures on the cuts in regional selective assistance in the period in question.
130. The selective breeding techniques used became blueprints for other breeders and ensured that the Shorthorn quickly ousted Bakewell's then ubiquitous Longhorn.
131. Five patients had additional selective gastric vagotomy because of excessive gastric acid or a history of duodenal ulcer.
132. Severe spina bifida was the first condition in which a policy of selective non-treatment was clearly enunciated.
133. This means they must actively encourage a more selective approach to custodial remand and sentencing.
134. There are some possible compromises, like centralization with selective local overriding, and Guide follows this approach.
135. Etching such a polished surface gives a relief which is more subtly fabric selective than etches controlled by an imperfect surface.
136. A project to develop a new production process requires a similar selective use of the concept.
137. If he were to read it with a less selective eye, he would benefit considerably.
138. Sales may also be lost because the aggressive firm is more selective in granting credit than its competitors.
139. But few insecticides now marketed are adequately selective, so some natural enemies are invariably killed.
140. The selective pressure is on all hosts to keep changing the password.
141. Antibiotics produce a selective change in flora.
142. the selective breeding of cattle.
143. A plastic membrane serves as selective diffusion barrier.
144. This course features a number of downloadable readings and a selective chronology of events Augustan Rome.
145. Selective aversion to certain risks may entail acceptance of other greater risks.
146. Bubble chambers are not selective because they cannot be triggered.
147. The high frequencies are not emitted, the effect of frequency - selective propagation is not very apparent.
148. Higher - energy radiation is used for intentional selective destruction of tissue,[sentencedict.com] such as cancerous tumors.
149. Mr Robins, suffering from selective amnesia about his role in the affair, was contradicted in nearly every instance by other witnesses.
150. They condemned the white paper as a charter for centralisation and selective education.
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