Spiral Q tries to select participants based upon compatibility with its core values and financial need.

The NOCs were still allowed to select participants using their own rules, on the condition all athletes have made the qualifying time.

Using a Web site, Teensinfashion.com, she encourages young people to submit photos of their designs and selects participants from several hundred entries.

The Department selects participants during an annual open season each spring.

The government, Mr. Thompson said, will select participants at random from the pool of applicants, alternating between cancer patients and those with other serious diseases.

If the intent is to generalize from the research participants to a larger population, the researcher will employ probability sampling to select participants.

If the quota has been exceeded, the company will select participants by lottery.

Nacel Open Door recruits and selects participants for this exchange and administers the program.

District officials used a lottery to select participants.

However, the selection procedure later reverted to selecting participants via a drawing.