In just 19 words, it provides an impressive selection of current widespread writing woes: dangling modifier ("vestiges" didn't walk in the front door), poor word choice ("vestiges, " "domesticity, " "regardless"), excessive prepositions (four in all) and an underappreciated but pervasive ill, a weak sentence-subject ("vestiges").

WSJ: Word Craft: Ben Yagoda on Not Writing Badly

In other words, once a player had earned the right of selection, they were usually given a pretty good run at their position before they were moved on and replaced by another player.

BBC: Justin Langer column

In these cases, selection is probably acting on the cost in materials and energy of making the products of the introduced genes (in other words, the protein that bypasses the herbicide, or the poison that protects against the insect).

ECONOMIST: GM crop plants are less weed-like than weedy