Rushes are asked to tell a joke prior to the brief, and graded by the team as part of the rigorous selection process.

The synthesis as it exists now has extended the scope of the Darwinian idea of natural selection to include subsequent scientific discoveries and concepts unknown to Darwin, such as DNA and genetics, which allow rigorous, in many cases mathematical, analyses of phenomena such as kin selection, altruism, and speciation.

Personnel selection and training were rigorous, and the case officers were notable for their advanced educations, area knowledge, and multilingual capabilities.

The selection process for her is especially rigorous.

The Program follows a rigorous selection process, with a maximum of 15 students selected every year.

The University also planned to have a more rigorous selection procedure regarding potential recipients of honorary degrees, in an attempt to rectify the trend of awarding degrees to celebrities.

In the days before precise varietal identification, let alone rigorous clonal selection, a vineyard might be planted by taking cuttings from another vineyard and therefore approximately copying its genetic makeup.

He also concluded that there should be a more rigorous selection process when accepting dogs for police work, the first step towards the notion that the police service should breed their own animals in an attempt to produce the ideal police dog.

Its popularity meant it had to develop a rigorous selection process.

They were harshly disciplined but well paid ( on a scale twice that of their British counterparts in the King's African Rifles ), and highly trained by German cadres who were themselves subject to a rigorous selection process.

The assessment criteria is rigorous and involves a separate selection course from NZSAS applicants.

These are all hand picked through a rigorous selection progress that usually lasts from start of October till Christmas.

The station is home to the Officer and Aircrew Selection Centre ( OASC ), where all applicants to the RAF as Officers or non-commissioned aircrew, are put through a 4 day rigorous selection process.

The National Women's Hall of Fame inducts distinguished American women through a rigorous national honors selection process involving representatives of the nation's important organizations and areas of expertise.

The Office of Personnel Management uses a rigorous selection process which ranks the top three candidates for each ALJ vacancy, and then makes a selection from those candidates, generally giving preference to veterans.

It comprises approximately fifty people, admitted after a rigorous selection procedure at the Special Training Centre ( established on 6 August 1980 ), where candidates also receive intensive training in special tactics.

To get the best people for the job, the unit holds an intensive and rigorous selection process.

Riders and horses competing at WEG go through a rigorous selection process, and each participating country sends teams that have distinguished themselves through competition as the best in each respective discipline.

The school has a rigorous three-round competitive selection process, with only two percent to three percent of applicants gaining admittance.

The Institute has approximately 1, 300 students, admitted after a rigorous selection.

Lifeguards employed with the NSLS must complete a physically rigorous selection process.

This rigorous selection program to ensure the highest level of skill and competency has proven to be a successful formula.

Board Certification is a rigorous testing and approval process that officially recognizes the extensive education and courtroom experience of attorneys.

Given the rigorous admission process it is not surprising that CUNY BA boasts a 70 % graduation rate within an average of 2. 2 years and that 60 % graduate with academic honors.

Purification is similar in theme to banishing, but is a more rigorous process of preparing the self and her temple for serious spiritual work.

The aim of the APCJ peer review process is to be rigorous and free of bias, ensuring that only high-quality, innovative work is published.

While few types of mead are available, all are home-brewed and go through a rigorous judging process.

Type 1 certification is a rigorous process that includes testing and formal analysis of ( among other things ) cryptographic security, functional security, tamper resistance, emissions security ( EMSEC / TEMPEST ), and security of the product manufacturing and distribution process.

In other words, Common Criteria provides assurance that the process of specification, implementation and evaluation of a computer security product has been conducted in a rigorous and standard manner.

Often prototypes are built using very limited engineering detail as compared to final production intent, which often uses statistical process controls and rigorous testing.

This aims to address the criticisms levelled at the ASC, whose comment process was less rigorous.

The Peabody Awards judging process is unusually rigorous.

It also forms the basis for the rigorous path integral formulation of quantum mechanics ( by the Feynman – Kac formula, a solution to the Schrödinger equation can be represented in terms of the Wiener process ) and the study of eternal inflation in physical cosmology.

Selected natural enemies are then passed through a rigorous assesment, testing and quarantine process, to ensure that they will work and that no unwanted organisms ( such as hyperparasitoids ) are introduced.

Racialism is belief in the existence and significance of racial differences, but not necessarily that any absolute hierarchy between the races has been demonstrated by a rigorous and comprehensive scientific process.

The open-space meeting or open space meeting is a generic term describing a wide variety of different styles of meeting in which participants define the agenda with a relatively rigorous process, and may adjust it as the meeting proceeds.

The rationale for engaging structured dialogue follows the observation that a rigorous bottom-up democratic form of dialogue must be structured to ensure that a sufficient variety of stakeholders represents the problem system of concern, and that their voices and contributions are equally balanced in the dialogic process.

THX has created a rigorous certification process for additional products including home audio, home theater, video, and automotive sound components and products.

Ian Livingstone, Chair of Skillset's Computer Games Skills Council and Life President at Eidos, commented that " accreditation is a rigorous process, but De Montfort's course shows what standards can be achieved with a curriculum designed with games industry input from day one.

The methodology employed by this Yeshiva places emphasis on the notion that the initial assumptions of the Talmud must be highly rigorous, and that the movement between the initial thought process ( known as the hava aminah ) of the Talmudic sugya to the final thought process must be fully unfolded and understood.

As part of the development of strategies and plans to enable the organization to achieve its objectives, then that organization will use a systematic / rigorous process known as corporate planning.