Sentence examples for be picked through a from inspiring English sources

After the Obama administration abandoned plans in 2009 to bury nuclear waste at a repository in Nevada's Yucca Mountain, a spot chosen by leading senators more than 20 years earlier, a study commission recommended that a new location be picked through "a consent-based process".

On a recent day she was picking through a veggie selection that's almost twice as big as those in the States: "We've lived here for two years, and this is the only place I shop," she says, nudging along a shopping cart as Julie Andrews belts out "The Sound of Music" over the speaker system.

By the time Bush returned to Washington, the plan had already been picked through by his military commanders.

Unbound Delegates Chosen through Caucuses I distinguish this group of 84 delegates from another, larger group of 188 who are picked through a caucus process but are officially unbound to any candidate.

However, MGM wanted a more popular artist, and invited various singers to write songs before one was picked through a competitive process.

It may be that shale is indeed the solution to our energy crisis, but many are unaware of the complex and tangled web of legal issues to be picked through before anyone puts a drill in the ground.

Party candidates all came to be picked through open primary elections.

Rubbish from the publisher's offices was regularly emptied into the flat's bathtub to be picked through.

Second (yawn) Life The Second Life blogger James Wagner Au is picking through some stats on whether corporate investment in the virtual world as a marketing tool is really worth it.

The prosecutor "is picking through and asserting these statements must be accurate, but there was an awful lot of confusion," Mr. Funk said in closing arguments.

She was picking through what was left of Tiffany's house.