What is "selectively"

Usage examples of "selectively".

A selectively permeable membrane, it would pass the right gasses in and out until the composition of the air was- was- Svetz was choking, tearing at the sac.

Consider color, as the physicalistic property of a surface, selectively absorbing and reflecting waves of light.

They plan to give out the antivirus selectively, regardless of any promise to the contrary.

Next came the tweezers, which she used to selectively pluck her eyebrows until she thinned them enough to get the punkish effect she desired.

He had built the hunter carefully, selectively destroying negative influences and preventing Jaeger from obsessing unhealthfully about anything.

The key findings of the Taylor Report, like many other top-secret studies, were selectively IeaLed decades before the declassification process was completed.

Industrial and tourist development and other economies helped stop the population decreasing on some islands after the 1970s, and selectively it even began to grow again, but the highest numbers reached at the end of the nineteen country and in the first half of the twentieth have not yet been equalled except in Rab, where the population has constantly increased since modern population censuses were introduced in 1857.

Rather, Bin Ladin selectively provided startup funds to new groups or money for specific terrorist operations.

But faced with opposition to antiterrorism legislation that not only gives the attorney general the power to use the armed services against the civilian population, neatly nullifying the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, it also, selectively, suspends habeas corpus, the heart of Anglo-American liberty.

But by pressuring the animals at a time when they were most vulnerable, by selectively killing off the young, by disrupting habitats, by taking out key components of the food webs that sustained communities of creatures, they did immense damage.

There was only one distillery, in orbit, with the facilities to selectively flip the isomers that produced the fascinating, distinctive taste of smoke whiskey.

From the beginning, the regime has distributed the resources available to it selectively, rewarding its loyalists and depriving those it considers its opponents--and everyone in Iraq falls into one of those categories.

Since yesterday, Minh had been taking pictures from time to time, though selectively and sparingly since there had been limitations on the number of tape cassettes he could bring.

Like any good servant, Arrhae could be selectively deaf when necessary, and moreover had little enough time to eavesdrop even had she more inclination to do so.

The satellite transceiver allowed global communications, tracking, biofunction monitoring, and data transmission, although the user could selectively cut off individual functions.