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How to use the word selects in a Sentence?

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Senator Graham've been clear that The President is considering Judge Childs for the Supreme Court, in addition to a range of other deeply qualified candidates, the President looks forward to evaluating her for this vacancy, and, if The President selects another candidate, to her confirmation to the DC Circuit Court because of her extraordinary credentials and what she stands for.

White House

Found on CNN
2 years ago

USA Basketball selects players to represent our country in international competition with the skills, character, experience, and desire to win, we build teams that are versatile and resilient in the short, intense competitions we face. We’re fortunate that this group of elite athletes has volunteered to represent us in Tokyo this summer.

Martin Dempsey

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Newsom California Gov. Gavin Newsom is a history maker and I look forward to supporting whoever Newsom California Gov. Gavin Newsom selects, newsom California Gov. Gavin Newsom has had more than Newsom California Gov. Gavin Newsom share of tough calls to make.

Robert Garcia

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I just think a lot of the ways things are run are just terribly anti-family, it's one of those subtle things that just selects out women. If we want to include women and their voices and the only way to work on these shows is to prove you're a machismo guy, staying until midnight every night, women are going to opt out of that. Parents are going to opt out of that.

Aline Brosh McKenna

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If he selects technocrats with experience, good track records and strong networks, it may not be as bad as the campaign rhetoric suggested.

Ernie Bower

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.

Bharavi

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Lytton Strachey

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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