(1) Some quantifiers are choosy as to which they apply to.
(2) One banner singled out the labour minister, Elsa Fornero, who recently warned graduates not to be "choosy" about jobs when they enter the job market.
(3) Therefore any cost to choice causes choosiness to decline.
(4) "Despite rock bottom interest rates making mortgages cheaper than they have been for years, lenders are still very choosy about who they will lend to.
(5) Would that be 'selective' in the 'so-choosy-you'll-die-alone' meaning of the word?
(6) More choosy females are more constant in expressing their preference, producing greater frequency dependence in the selection of the males.
(7) Even before recent market falls, investors had become more choosy after a series of IPOs left them out of pocket during the flotation frenzy early this year.
(8) Throughout their evolution males must have evolved adaptations to overcome these barriers, and the conflicting interests of choosy females.
(9) Some quantifiers are not choosy: we can talk about "more pebbles" or "more gravel".
(10) Anecdotally, agents report that there are fewer purchasers and that those purchasers looking to buy are both cautious and choosy.
(11) After a frenzy of demand for flotations early in the year, investors have become more choosy after a series of IPOs left them out of pocket.
(12) The offspring of choosy females have not only a Fisherian reproductive advantage but also greater viability.
(13) Second, they are seriously bloody choosy about who they feed.
(14) Not only does it reinforce an impression of government incompetence, it perpetuates the idea of benefits as an unconditional entitlement and allows a choosy graduate to suit herself at the taxpayers' expense.
(15) If I was looking for someone to spend the rest of my life with, why wouldn't I be as choosy as possible?
(16) The banks belatedly became a lot more choosy about the people to whom they would lend.
(17) Most had, since childhood, been characteristically sickly, inactive, withdrawn and choosy about their food.
(18) Generally, as females become less choosy, they express their preference with more dependence on male frequency, whereas the resulting selection of the males becomes less frequency dependent.
Discriminating
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discriminate
(a.) Marking a difference; distinguishing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical and roentgenographic criteria could not discriminate between patients with and without pneumonia, confirming the findings of previous investigations.
(2) Discrimination errors were used to generate a matrix of interletter and interpattern similarities.
(3) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
(4) For each temporal position of the independent noise, discriminability was a function of the ratio of the duration of the independent noise (tau) to the total burst duration.
(5) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
(6) To determine the diagnostic and discriminative value of these subisoenzymes in polymyositis, we analyzed CK and its MM subisoenzyme forms in serum samples from 22 patients with myositis and from 23 controls.
(7) They retained the ability to make this discrimination when the coloured stimuli were placed against a background bright enough to saturate the rods.3.
(8) After several months, a temporal discrimination was well established, as shown by maximum suppression toward the end of the signal period.
(9) Discriminant analysis was performed with the fourth child in the family as the index case.
(10) Only one part of the theory of Alajouanine and colleagues has been confirmed by our experiments for our results have shown that there is a very close correlation between semantic paraphasias and disorders of semantic differentiation whilst no correlation can be found between phonemic paraphasias and disturbances in auditory phonemic discrimination.
(11) Stimuli presented to this island could be detected and discriminated, although the subject reported he did not see them.
(12) However, as all subjects had normal hearing and maximum speech discrimination scores pre-smoking, it can only be concluded that smoking marihuana did not worsen the hearing--the experiments were not designed to see whether it would improve hearing.
(13) Therefore, a hormonal regulatory element can discriminate among closely related transcription start sites.
(14) Kup is a separate K+ uptake system with relatively little discrimination in the transport of the cations K+, Rb+, and Cs+.
(15) Thus obtained body shape variables were used in discriminant analysis in order to obtain unbiased classification probabilities of individuals having the MBS or being normal.
(16) The speed of visiting holes and the development of a preferred pattern of hole-visits did not influence spatial discrimination performance.
(17) The result shows that the great majority of children recorded considerably higher discrimination scores when the tests were performed with their individual hearing aids than with the test lists presented through the audiometer and the TDH-49 earphone.
(18) Results indicated that participants discriminated the target behavior on video but effects did not generalize to the work setting for 2 participants until they rehearsed the behavior.
(19) Discrimination was possible among these four groups on the basis of the Mahalanobis' generalized distance.
(20) Cape no longer has the monopoly on talent; the stars are scattered these days, and Franklin's "fantastically discriminating" deputy Robin Robertson can take credit for many recent triumphs, including their most recent Booker winner, Anne Enright.