weed out

The previous government brought in powers to weed out projects from the queue which were not ready to start, under a “first ready, first connected” system.

Trump asks for demographic information and political beliefs of his followers to weed out the “verified citizens” from the enemy Other.

“With marriage being the stakes, that tends to weed out a lot of people.”

The appeals court also rejected an argument from the SEC that the rule was necessary because it would weed out fraud, ruling that the SEC is conflating a lack of disclosure with deception.

But the jury was carefully chosen, after an arduous process, to weed out people who pay enough attention to the news to have previously formed this opinion of Trump.