Hand Pick

The White House proposes that, under the IMAC umbrella, President Obama will hand-pick five bureaucrats to decide what will and will not be covered by our Medicare of the future. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As with any attempt to hand-pick individual equities, one needs to have some rules. ❋ Andrew Pyle (2011)

When big-city mayors are given complete control of the schools and can hand-pick their school boards and name their school chiefs, they will inevitably do so based primarily on political fidelity to themselves and to their corporate patrons. ❋ Mike Klonsky (2011)

Pay attention to who's playing artists like you, hand-pick and approach specific people. ❋ Ruth Gerson (2011)

The goal for legislatures is to carve congressional districts based on voter registration in order to secure partisan victories - in other words, to hand-pick voters. ❋ Michael A. Fletcher (2010)

Do they take the time to personally visit each location or hand-pick the tour guides, bus drivers, etc. ❋ Ronen Paldi (2011)

Enter Senator Mark Warner, a former DPVA Chair, who decided that he would "hand-pick" the new Chair and line up all other major Democratic leaders Saslaw, Whipple, Armstrong, Webb before anyone else...even knew there was an opening. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Why would the these companies feel the need wrest control of the governing bodies, ignore conflicts of interest and insist on being able to hand-pick the researchers in areas of research as controversial and potentially as expensive and lucrative as climate change? ❋ RP Siegel (2010)

But, if it will cause a few of the religious faithful to back Rand Paul and defeat Mitch McConnell's hand-pick choice, then I'm all for it!!! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Corporations will be able to hand-pick who wins open seats, until both parties are just stuffed with them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[I came] so hard when John gave me that hand picked carrot, and again when i watched him bite [into it] and say "what's up, [doc]?". ❋ MMar775 (2011)

Get your cotton picking hands [off of] that [TV], [boy]! ❋ Mark Alfano (2015)