** Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl

Choosing brawn over brains and fuelled with jelousy over Duane's new gadget filled car, Minnie threatened Duane into making her a custom built skateboard.

Choosing one character over the other usually meant following his / her own story line, set along different routes but on the same location-the Arklay Mansion in Resident Evil and the police station in Resident Evil 2-and occasionally crossing paths with the other character.

* Choosing seats with the smoothest ride in regards to pitch ( the seats over the wings in an airplane ).

Choosing to attack Bengali forces all over Bangladesh simultaneously, Gen. Niazi concentrated battalion and brigade size forces on company and battalion size defense positions repeatedly, used air strikes and artillery to soften targets, and employed Heli-borne troops to outflank positions and hammered through to reach chosen objectives.

Choosing the latter, Cyclone was dropped with an electrical arrow and turned over to S. H. I. E. L. D.

A group of poets now known as the " Confederation Poets ", including Charles G. D. Roberts, Archibald Lampman, Bliss Carman, Duncan Campbell Scott, and William Wilfred Campbell, came to prominence in the 1880s and 1890s, Choosing the world of nature as their inspiration, their work was drawn from their own experiences and, at its best, written in their own tones.

!” Choosing to “ Join Black Dainn ” will result in a short cut scene and then the credits.

After the FCC sided with broadcasters and renewed their licenses, Choosing Our Future then created an inclusive " community voice " organization called " Bay Voice ".

Choosing a local coordinate system determines a local section of this bundle, which can then be used to pull back the Cristoffel symbols to functions on M, though of course these functions then depend on the choice of local coordinate system.

In 1996, he submitted his first novel, Choosing Up Sides, through Curtis Brown ( literary agents ), to Philomel Books, then a division of Penguin Putnam in New York, where the novel became the first acquisition of junior editor, Michael Green.

Choosing not to run again, he became Vice President, then President and finally Chairman of the Board of Dixon National Bank.

Choosing the codes used to modulate the signal is very important in the performance of CDMA systems.

Choosing an Internet service provider ( ISP ) that blocks objectionable material before it enters the home can help parents who worry about their children viewing objectionable content.

Choosing a Cartesian coordinate system for a one-dimensional space — that is, for a straight line — means choosing a point O of the line ( the origin ), a unit of length, and an orientation for the line.

Choosing a Cartesian coordinate system for a three-dimensional space means choosing an ordered triplet of lines ( axes ), any two of them being perpendicular ; a single unit of length for all three axes ; and an orientation for each axis.

Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore, Feral House, ISBN 1-932595-04-X.

Choosing and installing the correct device drivers for given hardware is often a key component of computer system configuration.

Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore.

* " Choosing a Hammer.

Based on Zooko's document, Open-Source Reference for Choosing a Free Software License.

Choosing what was possibly the continent's worst site for the first Spanish settlement in South America, in February 1536 Mendoza built a fort at a poor anchorage on the southern side of the Plata estuary on an inhospitable, windswept, dead-level plain where not a tree or shrub grew.

* A Prediction Error Criterion for Choosing the Lower Quantile in Pareto Index Estimation, by Debbie J. Dupuis and Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser

Choosing different blocks to remove in this way can lead to non-isomorphic affine planes.

Choosing inaccessible cliffs and entirely mammal-free islands protects them from terrestrial predators while laying eggs in burrows is effective in protecting them from egg-scavengers like gulls and ravens.

Choosing only travellers far from home gave more time until the alarm was raised and the distance made it less likely that colleagues would follow on to investigate the disappearances.

Choosing for himself freedom from the routines of office, as Lord Privy Seal he made appointments without regard for connections but perceived merit.

Choosing fellow Southerner Gore went against the popular strategy of balancing a Southern candidate with a Northern partner.

Choosing a value α close to 1 makes the weighted average immune to changes that last a short time ( e. g., a single segment that encounters long delay ).

Choosing a value for α close to 0 makes the weighted average respond to changes in delay very quickly.

Tedin, Kent L. & Weiher, Gregory R. 2011, ‘ General Social Capital, Education-Related Social Capital, and Choosing Charter Schools ’, The policy Studies Journal, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 609-29.

Choosing Revolution: Chinese Women Soldiers on the Long March.

`` President Kennedy once again interpreted the Soviet proposals, to sign a peace treaty with Germany as a threat, as part of the world menace allegedly looming over the countries of capitalism.

This is well evidenced by the Quietist doctrines carried over in Zen: the idea of the inward turning of thought, the enjoinder to put aside desires and perturbations so that a return to purity, peace, and stillness -- a union with the Infinite, with the Tao -- could be effected.

Despite continuous wars or imperial expansion on the Empire's frontiers and one year-long civil war over the imperial succession, the Mediterranean world remained at peace for more than two centuries.

But there was no getting over the fact that his father had sworn to pardon him and let him live in peace if he returned to Russia.

A peace treaty was signed in Seville in 1339 and, in the next year, Portuguese troops played an important role in the victory of the Battle of Rio Salado over the Marinid Moors in October 1340.

After concluding peace with Carthage in 306 BC, Agathocles styled himself king of Sicily in 304 BC, and established his rule over the Greek cities of the island more firmly than ever.

Shirkuh negotiated for peace and Alexandria was handed over to Amalric.

Using scientific knowledge from textbooks in the trunk of his 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88, and enlisting the help of Duke Henry, Ash successfully leads the medieval soldiers to victory over the Deadites and Evil Ash, saving Sheila and bringing peace between Arthur and Henry in the process.

Encouraged by these early gains Louis XIV urged Marshal Villeroi to go over to the offensive in the Spanish Netherlands and, with victory, gain a ' fair ' peace.

The Dutch, however, who had supplied the major share of the troops and money to secure the victory ( the Austrians had produced nothing of either ) claimed the government of the region till the war was over, and that after the peace they should continue to garrison Barrier Fortresses stronger than those which had fallen so easily to Louis XIV ’ s forces in 1701.

A bridge was built over the river Nabalia, where the warring parties approached each other on both sides to negotiate peace.

In 1995, Israel turned it over to the Palestinian National Authority in accordance with the Oslo peace accord.

Chapters 1: 1-2: 5 are thus a confession of failure ; chapters 2: 6-3: 6 are a major summary and reflection from the Deuteronomists, setting out the over all formula which the stories in the main text will follow: Israel " does evil in the eyes of Yahweh ;" the people are given into the hands of their enemies and cry out to Yahweh ; Yahweh raises up a leader ; the " spirit of Yahweh " comes upon the leader, the enemy is defeated, and peace is regained.

Some interpret a literal, future, thousand-year time period in which Christ will rule over the Earth, a time which will be characterized by peace and harmony.

Annoyed that Constans had received Thrace and Macedonia after the death of Dalmatius, Constantine demanded that Constans hand over the African provinces, which, in order to maintain a fragile peace, he agreed to do.

Annoyed that Constans had received Thrace and Macedonia after the death of Dalmatius, Constantine demanded that Constans hand over the African provinces, which, in order to maintain a fragile peace, he agreed to do.

" ( ( i. e., a role model ) over the course of history, and a part of the divine intent of bringing about an age of peace and sanctity where ideally a faithful life and good deeds should be ends in themselves, not means.

On May 12, 2001, President Ismail Omar Guelleh presided over the signing of what is termed the final peace accord officially ending the decade-long civil war between the government and the armed faction of the FRUD, led by Ahmed Dini Ahmed, an Afar nationalist and former Gouled political ally.

On 12 May 2001, President Ismail Omar Guelleh presided over the signing of what is termed the final peace accord officially ending the decade-long civil war between the government and the armed faction of the FRUD.

The line laid the foundation not for peace between the border regions, but for heated disagreement between the governments of Afghanistan and British India, and later, Afghanistan and Pakistan over what came to be known as the issue of Pashtunistan or ' Land of the Pashtuns '.

Peace of mind, or Apatheia, was of the highest value ; self-mastery over one's desires and emotions leads to spiritual peace.

To repel evil opinions by the good is the noble contest in which humans should engage ; it is not an easy task, but it promises true freedom, peace of mind ( ataraxia ), and a divine command over the emotions ( apatheia ).

Members of the Fujiwara, Taira, and Minamoto families — all of whom had descended from the imperial family — attacked one another, claimed control over vast tracts of conquered land, set up rival regimes, and generally broke the peace of Japan.

Finnish conservatives were concerned over Germany and Russia's intent to conduct armistice and peace negotiations, fearing this would restrict Germany's ability to provide assistance to the White Finns.

It had some success in consolidating civilian control over the army, replacing a number of senior officers and persuading the military to participate in peace talks with the URNG.