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choose between (two people or things)

To select one person or thing from two options. We will choose between the two best candidates for the job. I'm exhausted because I had to choose between sleep or finishing this paper last night.
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In poll results bared on Tuesday, the SWS said it asked respondents: 'In case you have to choose between your love life and career, which of these two would you choose?
SWS: 59% of Filipinos would pick career over love life
In this sense, there is a strong nonlibertarian dimension to apparently liberty-preserving approaches that ask people to choose between active choosing and a default rule.
At least some of those people likely do not want to have to choose between active choosing and a default rule, and hence they would prefer a default rule to an active choice between active choosing and a default rule.
Forcing People to Choose Is Paternalistic
Without anything to choose between, there is no fear of choosing wrong.
Risking the better story
However, for most classes of other medications, a plan only has to cover a minimum of two drugs for each condition, For example, there are more than two drugs commonly used to treat PCP pneumonia, but under some of these plans, doctors may need to choose between two that are covered by their patient's Part D plan.
Got Medicare? What people living with HIV need to know about the new medicare drug benefit--"Part D"--starting January 1st, 2006
From how to choose among different pool or spa options to understanding its mechanical systems and using landscaping to integrate it into a backyard, by including both under one cover, Swimming Pools And Spas provides a much wider-ranging set of discussions than competing titles with narrower focuses--and enable homeowners to contrast and choose between a pool or spa.
Sunset Publishing Corporation
If candidates tied, the House of Representatives would choose between the two.
How we elect a President: in the U.S., a candidate can become President even if he or she doesn't receive the most popular votes. Do you know why?
The fact is that the euthanasia issue, especially when linked to the controversy over abortion, has emerged as one of the great debates in turn-of-the-century America; the public must choose between the various "right to life" and "pro-choice" arguments as they apply to death as well as to birth.
Death with dignity
Depending on their needs, customers can choose between Premiere Global Services' ReadyConference(R) and ReadyConference(R) GlobalMeet(R), Premiere Global's international audio conferencing service.
Premiere Global Services and Adobe Sign Reseller Agreement; Reseller Agreement Gives Customers One Provider, One Support Point For Unified Web Conferencing
The PRElection, a national online election for young people to learn about and choose between Senator Kerry and President Bush, helps participants register to vote in the real presidential election through a specially-developed dual registration system.
MTV's Choose or Lose and Major Video Game Publishers Present ``VG Unity: Stand and Choose'' Music Video Encouraging Young Adults to Vote in 2004 Presidential Election
The Choice Program enables Florida state employees to choose between two FRS retirement plan options, their existing defined benefit Pension Plan and the new defined contribution Investment Plan.
Florida Retirement System Launches Choice Program Powered by Financial Engines to First 460,000 State Employees
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