Britain had played only amateur players, while other nations selected their team from all available players.

During the closing ceremony in Vancouver, the 82 nations selected one member of their delegation to be the flagbearer.

The three clans' Nation representatives, both sides agree, were meant to be transitional posts until the nation could select new chiefs.

A nation like the United States would select a handful of people, train them extensively, anoint them as astronauts and send them into space at very great cost.

It matters not at all that other nations may have selected higher action levels for their populations.

For the ship that came to Israel that night brought with it not the kind of people that a nation would consciously select, not the clean nor the healthy nor the educated.

This competition allows semi-peripheral nations to select from among core countries rather than vice versa when making decisions about commodity purchases, manufacturing investments, and sales of goods, shifting the balance of power to the semi-periphery.

A boundary dispute between Bolivia and Peru was settled by President José Figueroa Alcorta of Argentina, whom the two nations selected as arbitrator.

The nation, and international voters too, considered a ballot or all-time shortlist comprising ten of the 53 Medal-winning works, selected by six "children's book experts".

This time around the theme is "cultural nomadism," and many nations have selected artists from elsewhere to represent them.