Sentence examples for historic selection from inspiring English sources

What Mr. Mondale enhanced was his own image; his historic selection of a woman helped dispel -- if briefly -- perceptions that he was boring and meek.

"IAVA applauds President-elect Obama and the transition team for making this historic selection.

The historic selection of Representative Geraldine Ferraro on that day culminated a process whereby Mondale transparently considered able members of groups historically excluded from leadership roles.

Today, on the 67th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, I am pleased to announce that the President-elect has made a historic selection: General Eric Shinseki has been tapped to be the new Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Some regions of the genome are devoid of any evidence of historic selection (0 50 cM of chromosomes 2 and 10), while others have multiple sites of selection (25 75 cM of chromosome 1; 55–90 cM chromosome 3).

The current protocol is not intended to definitely prove the past selection in any given chromosomal region, but rather to only find candidate regions for historic selection genome-wide for downstream validation tests.

This finding suggests either an historic selective hard sweep that has been eroded by drift and interbreeding between resident and migrant forms, or a soft sweep in which selection pressure between forms is reduced.

Typically, some inference about the level of historic positive selection uses the ratio of nonsynonymous to synonymous substitution rates (d N/d S, Table 1).

With the Court seemingly on the verge of an historic precedent, the selection of the lawyers for oral argument became a point of some contention among the many attorneys involved in the various cases.

Taking into account the widely varying composition of historic glass, the selection of appropriate matrix-matched solid reference materials is difficult [ 2, 11].

Alternatively, disruptive selection by historic commercial gill net fisheries, which primarily select for intermediately-sized fish and do not capture the smallest or largest individuals, may have increased phenotypic variance and responsiveness of yellow perch life history traits.