A hand-picked jury.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

No Cabinet had ever been so prayerfully hand-picked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference

Oprah on stage, along with her 152 hand-picked girls.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2007] Reference

The voters, he said, "know I haven't been hand-picked.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Voters Head to Polls in Final Primaries of Season] Reference

Then a few of the pests can be hand-picked and destroyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916] Reference

It was an old-fashioned convention of the hand-picked variety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference

Patrons are encouraged to bring home-grown or hand-picked fruit!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bettina Korek: Plan ForYourArt July 29-August 3] Reference

He left behind a hand-picked team of counterinsurgency specialists.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Last War Unfinished, Top Sergeant Exits Afghanistan] Reference

He was hand-picked for the job because of his 28 years with the DEA.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2007] Reference

We'll see what Vladimir Putin's hand-picked successor means for the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 3, 2008] Reference

DEGARABEDIAN: Yes, De Niro hand-picked this guy, so you know he's got to be good.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2002] Reference

You've been described as being hand-picked by the White House for this candidacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2002] Reference

We couldn't possibly buy trees last week, because -- they would not be hand-picked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays] Reference

Vladimir Putin, Yeltsin's hard-line, hand-picked successor, says he'll do the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous In Life, Noted In Passing] Reference

Washington believed that its hand-picked Governing Council gave the occupation legitimacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [OUR LAST REAL CHANCE] Reference

He was projected to lose to Aznar's hand-picked heir, Mariano Rajoy, in the 2004 elections.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Way Works] Reference

Those he will allow are escorted to hand-picked polling places by armed military personnel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maria Conchita Alonso: A Plea for Independent Election Monitoring in Venezuela] Reference

Pervez Musharraf has sworn in a new cabinet, all of them hand-picked and Musharraf-friendly.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2007] Reference

McDonnell's hand-picked government reform commission is scheduled to vote on the proposal Oct. 4.    From Wordnik.com.  [McDonnell unveils plan to privatize Va. liquor sales, but skeptics question taxes] Reference

UPPER HOUSE COAL COMPANY, hand-picked by the Duke himself, on whose property the mines are situated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 7, 1891] Reference

The white glare of it faded the stars as he sideslipped, then straightened out on his hand-picked field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference

QUIJANO (voice over): President Bush's hand-picked choice to run the CIA quit after just 20 months on the job.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 5, 2006] Reference

If she is selling hand-picked fruit, the people who buy from her should know that they will receive only the best.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference

After all he was hand-picked by Indira Gandhi to join the Congress and he has served as a trusted aide of Rajiv Gandhi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunil Sharan: Shunned, Will He Bolt?] Reference

D'Amato had died the year before, leaving Tyson in the hands of his own hand-picked managers, Jimmy Jacobs and Bill Cayton.    From Wordnik.com.  [He's Back] Reference

Constitutionally barred from running for re-election, he hand-picked his successor and remained the power behind the throne.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE GHOSTS OF WAR] Reference

From this it is again sieved in order to size it properly, hand-picked, put into bags, and sent on mules 'backs to the wharf.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

Sales to northern concerns were mostly at from 30 to 35 cents for hand-picked goods, ranging up to 38 cents per pound by midsummer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934] Reference

Tavia was not at all particular about that part of it -- whether it was hand-picked or peddler-purchased, and she said so promptly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays] Reference

But Milosevic's hand-picked election commissioners claimed that Kostunica had received less than the required 50 percent of the vote.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2002] Reference

Anish Eapen, a ward superintendent hand-picked by Ald. Stone, was sentenced to 364 days in jail for attempted absentee ballot violations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ald. Stone's Campaigners Sentenced To Jail Time For Attempting Voter Fraud] Reference

She couldn't accomplish either of her objectives alone, and who better for her closest helpers than the team she and Mike had hand-picked?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel] Reference

The Democratic debate, almost 500 video questions have been submitted to YouTube and about 40 will be hand-picked by CNN's political team.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 28, 2007] Reference