As the title suggests, this collection attempts to define the essential Irish aspects of the stories chosen rather than pick a best-of from well-known writers.
The shoddy glamour of their fugitive lives is something Mel and Sid think they have chosen rather than been driven into.
The focus also seemed to be more on deciding how leadership candidates should be chosen rather than on who they might be.
Ms. Bartosik works with a small vocabulary of slow, delving turns and leans and runs that look chosen rather than settled for, performed by alert and pulled-up bodies.
Refreshingly, the dresses and disguises all seemed spontaneously chosen, rather than results of needling stylists and weeks of coordinated negotiations between houses and the magazine (ahem, certain other parties).
She points out that these innocuous-sounding approaches often push women into a life of underachievement, and one whose limitations are no less objectionable because they seem to be chosen rather than imposed.
In the courtyard — "the soul of the siheyuan," as Mr. Liu put it — pinewood pillars were painted red, like those at the Forbidden City (though burgundy was chosen rather than the more familiar revolutionary crimson), and polished to a high sheen by builders who had first applied several layers of pigs' blood.
If the consortia bidding for a project had to supply a detailed bid for the final contract before they were chosen, rather than just an outline bid for some broad specifications, they would have to spend, for some of the larger schemes, around £5m preparing their offer.
In one speech, addressing Herman Van Rompuy, the newly chosen (rather than elected) president of the E.U. and former Prime Minister of Belgium ("pretty much a noncountry"), Farage said, "I don't want to be rude, but, you know, really, you have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk".
The funds from Pell Grants and subsidized loans, by being assigned to students to spend on academic institutions they have chosen rather than being packaged as institutional grants for colleges to dispense, have empowered students — for good but also for ill.
It has been a regional leader in expanding gay rights.The city council has approved a law authorising same-sex civil unions, and taken other measures that provide for benefits to pass to surviving partners in such unions and to require hospitals to refer to transgender patients by their chosen rather than legal names.
