Voorbeelden van winnowing

• Flooring the barrancos are boulder and cobble gravel lags due to the winnowing of finer material.

• Quantities of cereals, pulses, and residues produced on each plot were weighed after threshing and winnowing at the end of the season.

• It is my impression that less time was spent on such activities as winnowing, levigating, and burnishing.

• In this region, women are also more involved in threshing and winnowing small grains, and (together with their male partners) in planting, harvesting and threshing.

• Yet winnowing frequently occurs without the presence of a classic momentum candidate.

• We postulate that this process reflects the further winnowing of the multiple-problem group from less deviant groups of males during adolescence.

• There is, in short, no evidence of a winnowing process, hence little evidence of a talent-matching process.

• Routes were distributed where they would be most profitable, winnowing the department's deficit so that it could credibly take other policy initiatives to the public.

• The first several episodes deal with the audition process and the winnowing down to the five boys from successive ranks first of twenty-five hopefuls, then of eight.

• Wheat harvesting involved two separate activities : reaping and the related task of threshing and winnowing.

• Usually, however, economists have recognized that it is implausible to treat all existing preferences as on a par for normative purposes, and have recommended at least some winnowing or correcting.

• That is why the winnowing process has been rigorous.

• Whatever winnowing process is adopted to sift the chaff from the grain, it is bound to be arbitrary and unsatisfactory.

• A way forward can often be found by winnowing out those items which are genuinely confidential, firmly making it known that they are such.

• They are the result of a very careful process of the winnowing of all possible suggestions for dealing with a matter of the greatest difficulty.