Sentence examples for selective interventions from inspiring English sources

In response to concerns about sex ratios and underlying sexism, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has recommended a policy of only allowing sex selective interventions to be used to avoid sex-linked diseases, or for "family balancing" purposes (e.g., only for the second child in a family)(ACOG 2007).

But it succeeded in pitting Paul against his likely Republican presidential opponents most of whom are still banging the drum for Bush-era "Mission Accomplished" jingoism and also against the drone strikes and selective interventions of Obama and Hillary Clinton, the all-but-guaranteed 2016 Democratic presidential candidate.

Similarly, on the community level, classroom-based school interventions may be seen as selective interventions for distressed youth.

There is evidence that lifestyle modification can be implemented in general practice and that selective interventions can bring about behaviour change in patients [ 17- 19].

Selective interventions may be offered for vulnerable households (e.g., child-headed, one-parent), and indicated interventions for families with an identified problem (e.g., chronically ill or substance-abusing parent, disabled children, established abuse).

Selective interventions such as educating General Practitioners to better recognise and treat depression, have been shown to be an effective means of reducing suicide risk among the general population [ 15].

"Urban acupuncture is a surgical and selective intervention into the urban environment," said Los Angeles architect and professor John Southern in an interview, "instead of large scale projects that involve not only thousands of acres, but investment and infrastructure that municipalities can no longer provide".

Which are those failures that justify the selective intervention of the State?

This phenomenon is due to selective intervention strategies that disregard small-scale disputes and focus only on large-scale disputes.

To understand how factors differentially affect these two types of innovation, I connect two disparate concepts: relative absorptive capacity and selective intervention.

In model 2, the mediation capacity of arbitral institutes does not pass the significance test, which might be caused by arbitral institutes' selective intervention.