This has led to the common practice of selecting compounds based on potency and relative selectivity in blocking hERG potassium currents.
Eclecticism, (from Greek eklektikos, "selective"), in philosophy and theology, the practice of selecting doctrines from different systems of thought without adopting the whole parent system for each doctrine.
As in the more institutionalized or tribal forms of cannibalism, there was even a ritual element, in the widely observed practice of selecting the victim by drawing straws.
Eight years ago, when Bill Clinton picked Mr. Gore, a middle-of-the-road Southerner, he broke from the traditional practice of selecting running mates from another part of the country to provide a geographical and in some cases ideological balance.
The settlement ends a suit filed in 1999 in Federal District Court in Manhattan in which the commission said Woolworth had a practice of selecting employees for termination because they were 40 and older.
This is because Kemp, who designed the spaces, eschews the common practice of selecting a single scheme to be repeated throughout, instead embarking on a painstaking process of decorating every room to be utterly distinct from the next.
According to Manin, the practice of selecting magistrates by lottery is what separates representative democracies from so-called direct democracies.
Ancient Japan never followed the Chinese practice of selecting bureaucrats by way of civil service exams based on Confucian learning and its practical applications.
Recently, designing artificial neural networks by evolutionary algorithms has emerged as a preferred alternative to the common practice of selecting the apparent best network.
Or so it seemed last year, when my wife and I tried to involve her in our annual practice of selecting organizations to support with a charitable gift around the holidays.
