Sentence examples for was initially picked from inspiring English sources

The name was initially picked to reflect its cross-Channel origins, the project being the result of an Anglo-French treaty in 1962.

His choice of Judge Roberts, who was initially picked to succeed Justice O'Connor and then re-nominated to be chief justice after the death of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, came as a surprise to senators on both sides of the aisle.

The story was initially picked up by the Guardian and the BBC.

She was initially picked as the number one free agent by the Angels in 1978, the league's inaugural season.

The draft, about a troubled 12-year-old, and a fallen superhero, was initially picked up by director Tony Scott as a potential project.

They were initially picked up by The First Post, a political website, and the story began to snowball.

New York cab-passengers often hang around on street corners for hours after they have been dropped off, marvelling at the efficiency with which they were initially picked up.

The students have been held on similar state explosives charges in South Carolina since their arrest there on Aug. 4; they were initially picked up on speeding charges about seven miles from the Naval Weapons Station Charleston, a military base in Goose Creek, S.C., where high-profile terrorism suspects have been detained in recent years.

This quickly leads to scepticism, however, since its still fails to address the problematic criteria by which this general concept is initially picked out and abstracted from the multiplicity of particulars or on what grounds these particulars are grouped together.

The library was screened according to the ZAP Express manual (Stratagene) with a probe made from the conserved region of the AVRk1 gene family using the primers R1 and R3 [16] and 192 positive plaques were initially picked.

As an initial assessment of data collected during July 1998 through August 2001, WHO retrospectively verified 578 outbreaks, of which 56% were initially picked up and disseminated by GPHIN (9 ).