In selecting his choices, Mr. Kaplan talked about the common language that had evolved in the English-speaking world.

At the beginning of each semester, students select their top three choices from a list of many different types of classes.

Each week a Guardian reader selects their five favourite clips to illustrate a chosen topic, then next week comes back into the blog to select their top choices from those suggested by other readers.

On this survey, audience members are asked to select their top seven choices from a long list of show titles.

Panel members were asked to select their top five choices for the award, with 10 points being awarded for a first place vote, seven for second, five for third, three for fourth and one for fifth.

With her shoulders hunched, she carefully picked her way through a murder scene, selecting her choices and options in a field investigation of a double homicide.

It has also been argued that those surveyed have tended to select their choices from personal preference rather than from a neutral perspective.

An earlier "primary" selected Vermont's choices for candidates for president.

The Royal Navy tradition was that a flag officer being sent out to command one of the Service's fleet stations had broad authority to select her own choices for those positions.

Formal negotiating will begin after Hampton selects his top choices.