This 'furfuroid' while equally resistant to alkalis as the normal cellulose group with which it is associated, is selectively hydrolysed by acids.
By treatment with the concentrated alkali, therefore, the furfuroid of the original lignocellulose undergoes little change, but is selectively dissolved.
In the case of the celluloses which are mixtures, or of complex constitution, there are various methods of either fractionating the original, or of selectively attacking particular monoses resulting from the transformation.
The pecuniary employments call into action chiefly the former of these two ranges of aptitudes and propensities, and act selectively to conserve them in the population.
It should accordingly be found that the modern industrial life tends selectively to eliminate these traits of human nature from the spiritual constitution of the classes that are immediately engaged in the industrial process.
It does this both by educating those individuals and classes who are occupied with these employments and by selectively repressing and eliminating those individuals and lines of descent that are unfit in this respect.
They bring us back with a jolt from absorbed following of the play to the disturbing truth that we are not looking at life, but at life selectively presented under obvious limitations of the stage.
That is, the wit of the first passage is an assisted wit, edged, underscored, selectively phrased by a skilful author.
If his people first appear to him as types, as in the case of The Country Boy to be cited in a moment, selectively he moves from type to individuals.
We unanimously agree that the patient was suffering from: Senile softening of the brain, selectively affecting the frontal lobes of the cerebral cortex and the corpus striatum, due to vascular degeneration.
Of course this acts selectively to call out what is most advantageous and most valued in the society.
Systematic and legal torture then becomes an engine of uniformity and it acts selectively as it crushes out originality and independent suggestion.
His stirring words were, "This new drug selectively halts at the thalamic brain the upward flow of unconscious stimuli and the downward flow of unconscious motivations.
The mnemonic eraser can selectivelyshunt from the brain any identifiable category of memory, and erase the synaptic patterns associated with its translation into action.
Double these numbers may be placed on a party line and selectively actuated, if the first set of four or five is bridged across the line and the second set of four or five is connected between one limb of the line and ground.
While all of the commercial harmonic systems on the market are limited to four or five frequencies, it does not follow that a greater number than four or five stations may not be selectively rung.
In this branch of the science of light-production substances are sought not only for their high melting-point, but for their ability to radiate selectively as much visible energy as possible and of the most luminous character.
The normal radiator which emits energy by virtue of its temperature without selectivelyradiating more or less energy in any part of the spectrum than indicated by the theoretical radiation laws is called a "black-body" or normal radiator.
The Turkish general, fearing nothing from an army so scantily provided with the means of war, was taken by surprise, but hastily arranged his troops in order of battle.
He also reformed and reduced the number of the insolent Prætorians, who were afterward totally disbanded by Constantine.
This habit of thought is a selectively necessary consequence of industrial life, and, indeed, of all human experience in making use of the material means of life.
The former is a question of the temperamental heritage of civilised mankind, and therefore it is in large part a question of the circumstances which have in the past selectively shaped the human nature of civilised mankind.
The standpoint so gained selectively guides the attention of the classical writers in their observation and apprehension of facts, and they come to see evidence of conformity or approach to the normal in the most unlikely places.
For example, the German Blitzkreig would have performed with the greatest difficulty in the Vietnam War, where enemy forces had relatively few lines to be penetrated or selectively savaged by this type of warfare.
Selectively target rogue terrorist leaders as was apparently done by the Russians in Chechnya recently when they killed the top rebel leader by detecting and homing in on his satellite phone conversation (helicopter rocket attack).
This will be accomplished by selectively denying knowledge to the enemy while presenting him with information that is either misleading or serves our purposes.
Supreme Court has applied heightened scrutiny where the government opens a general-purpose municipal theater for use by the public, but selectively excludes disfavored content, see Southeastern Promotions, Ltd.
Such damaged cells are selectively removed by the spleen.
Therapeutic doses—those given for medical treatment—by contrast, are given to patients with a disease that is in need of control, that is, the physician desires to destroy selectively cells or tissues that are abnormal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "selectively" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
