Sentence examples for selection standard from inspiring English sources

Only eight Britons qualified outright, although 16 additional swimmers were selected after recording times within 2% of the selection standard.

She failed to achieve the long jump selection standard for Barcelona but was picked for the Swedish team as a wildcard.

On his marathon debut, Blackheath's Scott Overall finished fifth in the men's race in 2 10 55, which is 65sec inside the selection standard.

"The qualifying selection standard is good, but I want to be a long way beyond it so I can be competitive at the Games," she told BBC Guernsey.

This has an interesting consequence: if highly reliably transmitted cultural traits could be subject to natural selection, standard evolutionary methods and models of the sorts used in behavioral ecology could be used to understand the evolution of such traits.

Using an analytically tractable model with entry and exit, we show that reducing entry cost will increase average firm productivity by encouraging more entries of firms, whereas reducing overhead cost will decrease it by adversely lowering the selection standard.

"Our aim was to select our largest team ever meeting the tough selection standards and clearly athletes in all sports have risen to the occasion," said Team Scotland chef de mission Jon Doig.

As a result, selection standards for new locations dropped.

Mr. Liu paid tribute to the ex-guides and talked about the strict selection standards he used.

They are indeed elitist, but the drastic selection standards foster an elite based on skills more than on financial background.Morgan Ossola Paris .

Fortune was on their side one month later, when badminton players from New Zealand and the Netherlands were denied berths by their respective National Olympic Committees for failing to meet national selection standards, which are tougher than standards set by the sport's governing body, the Badminton World Federation.