Sentence examples for off selective from inspiring English sources

But he immediately grasped the fact that shutting off selective availability meant that "for the first time in the world, you could just be given coordinates and find a small object on the planet Earth".

It's so important to military missions that the government couldn't turn off selective availability for civilian gear until the Air Force had developed the capability for something called "selective deniability".

Dyck and Zingales say short-sellers started tipping off selective journalists about the "related-party" transactions involving Enron's senior officers and their insider trading.

When quantifying the proportion of the airflow responsive areas that were highly on-selective, highly off-selective, and relatively non-selective, we divided the patches into these three categories according to its OSI.

OSIs below –0.2 indicate airflow off responses that are more than 50% greater than the airflow on response, and the patches with these OSIs were categorized as highly off-selective.

Figures 7A D show not only a clustering of highly off-selective patches but also a consistent trend for the OSI of the patches to increase as the position of the patch moves along the anterolateral to posteromedial axis of α' lobes.

However, this linear trend seemed to break down at the more anterolateral portion of α' lobes where highly off-selective patches exist, further suggesting that the dorsal lateral portion of the α' lobe may be functionally distinct from the other regions.

It's a shameless ploy to show off his (selective) Christian values.

Though signs may not deter young people who rampage down blocks, breaking into cars at random -- he has videotaped such sprees with hidden cameras -- he thinks they may ward off more selective attacks.

She spent a year at the middle school as a student teacher, then three more as a full-time teacher, marveling as poor children from Hispanic immigrant families posted top reading and math scores and went off to selective places like Stuyvesant and Andover.

So, let's try to bite off some selective areas to get a handle on this amazing culturally diverse destination.