Sentences with phrase «establishing the criteria by»

Prime sez: «Atheists establish criteria by which they accept or reject the existence of God.

Atheists establish criteria by which they accept or reject the existence of God.

Among them: determining what constitutes acceptable state tests; establishing criteria by which to approve a state's school accountability plan; defining «qualified» teachers; and deciding how broadly to interpret a clause that lets schools avoid sanctions if their students make lesser gains than those required under the bill's «adequate yearly progress» provision.

One of the office's most important tasks is to establish the criteria by which it judges contenders for federal largesse.

That said, schools must be sure to use caution when establishing the criteria by which background checks will be used to accept volunteer applicants.

Not exact matches

The approval was based on two clinical trials of the device and lowers the barrier of entry for other similar devices, by establishing criteria that classify these systems as moderate risk medical devices, the FDA announced.

Add to that the fact that five of six Canadian clubs are currently within $ 800,000 of the salary cap, and our teams are unable to satisfy the criteria set out in the Fan Value Index: Overall standing (60 per cent), Payroll (10 per cent), Fan Cost Index as established by Team Marketing Report (30 per cent).

The quantitative criteria were ranked by their ability to disrupt established industries and public companies.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), Neiman Marcus, Inc.'s internal control over financial reporting as of July 28, 2012, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated September 18, 2012 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.

Members of the Committee are non-management directors who, in the opinion of the Board, satisfy the independence criteria established by the Board, the standards of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the NYSE.

In addition, ongoing access by any particular customer to individual products and services is subject to periodic review and may be restricted based on criteria established solely by Fidelity.

Adding to this new information is some research conducted by Womenable way back in 2007, Mapping the Missing Middle: Determining the Desire and Dimensions of Second - Stage Women Business Owners, which not only raised the point that not enough policy and programmatic attention was being paid to established women - owned firms that had not yet cracked the million - dollar revenue barrier, but sized this population at between 16 % (if defined to include firms with employees or between $ 100,000 and $ 1 million in revenues) and fully 91 % (if having employees and revenues over $ 100,000 was not a criterion) of the entire women - owned business population.

We looked south of the border to the Beyond Grey Pinstripes ranking conducted by the Aspen Institute, which had established criteria rewarding schools for emphasizing social responsibility, environmental sustainability and community engagement through institutional support, student initiatives and coursework.

To become an agent one does have to meet certain criteria that are established by the mutual fund industry and any other relevant organizations.

Government is increasingly shaped by criteria of efficiency established by the great high priest of that value, the modern social scientist.

This pushed the state's procedures out of line with constitutional criteria established by the United States Supreme Court back in January.

This effort led to the Uniform Declaration of Death Act (UDDA) in 1981, which established in law that death may be diagnosed by either traditional cardiorespiratory or neurologic criteria.

Many Christians in good conscience affirm this practice once a person's death has been established by traditional circulatory or whole - brain criteria.

By their reasoning, the discernment of the truth on which the Christian community established the university in question is trumped by presumably superior criteria of truth, discerned individuallBy their reasoning, the discernment of the truth on which the Christian community established the university in question is trumped by presumably superior criteria of truth, discerned individuallby presumably superior criteria of truth, discerned individually.

4) Is a saying or deed coherent with what we have established about Jesus by using the other criteria?

Here we propose a second criterion, which we will call «the criterion of coherence»: material from the earliest strata of the tradition may be accepted as authentic if it can be shown to cohere with material established as authentic by means of the criterion of dissimilarity.»

What we are proposing, in effect, is to use material established as authentic by the one sure criterion as a touchstone by means of which to judge material which itself would resist the application of that criterion, material which could not be established as dissimilar to emphases of Judaism or the early Church.

Both these scholars then sought to establish strict literary criteria which would reliably clarify the process by which the texts themselves were developed and would thus provide a true picture of the tradition.

Plastic pallets meet food, beverage, pharmaceutical product handling guidelines Certified by NSF International, the full line of ProStack ProGenic pallets by Polymer Solutions meets established guidelines and criteria for handling food, beverage, pharmaceutical and medical products.

Rainforest Alliance (RA) certified coffee conforms to standards and criteria established by the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN).

Rainforest Alliance certification and verification services are conducted by program staff and consultants who meet established criteria for experience and training and who have not provided related consulting services or technical assistance to the business being audited for at least the past two years.

The designated project must comply with the criteria established by the Basque Culinary World Prize.

[/ pullquote] Rainforest Alliance (RA) certified coffee conforms to standards and criteria established by the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN).

Postnatal external constraint is by far the most common cause, although the incidence is not fully established because of the lack of consensus on the criteria to be used in making the diagnosis.

Among the significant concerns underlined by the Venice Commission are: i) lack of broader consensus and no public consultations, ii) unclear criteria and discretionary methods for establishing constituencies, iii) no clear criteria for the representation of Transnistria and of Moldovan citizens living abroad, and, iv) constituency members of parliament would be vulnerable to being influenced by business interests.

BP Katz: «Fair to All Applicants, Allows City to Establish Official Policy, Criteria and Process for Community Input» QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz stated the following in response to questions about the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation's denial of all current applications by for - profit companies to hold paid - admission music festivals -LSB-...]

Criteria will be established by advisory committee consisting of 9 (4 from NYSIA, 1 Senate appointment, 1 Assembly appointment, 2 gubernatorial appointments.)

Although the agency has established a tax exemption policy as required by law, the policy does not contain all of the criteria the agency says it uses when evaluating proposed development projects, such as the nature of the project and the number of jobs to be created or retained, the audit said.

The Public Integrity Reform Act of 2011, passed in June of that year, required the Board to establish criteria for the disclosure of independent expenditures by January 1, 2012.

To ensure that pathway assessments are of sufficient rigor, validity and reliability, the regulations establish the conditions and criteria by which these assessments may be approved by the Commissioner.

Jeremy Belfield, the superintendent of the LaFayette Central School District, said if Simone Thornton, the choice for principal by parents and Onondaga leaders, meets the criteria «established for her to be principal, the opportunity is there for her to serve as principal.»

A public register of all rejected urgent questions would be established, which would include the grounds for rejection justified by the criteria.

The objectives of Aquehung are: to educate its members regarding government operations and civic concerns; to teach and promulgate the principles of Americanism; to support the election to office of qualified Democratic candidates; to provide a pool of volunteer talent to support each candidate; to inform its members of election procedures; to provide a two - way channel of communication between club members, candidates and elected party and public officials; and lastly, to provide monetary contributions to candidates who meet the criteria established by the club.

You can avoid the problems that come from shifting criteria by establishing what you're looking for in a candidate in a precise, structured way before reading the applications.

Of the 36 others, 5, or 13.8 %, developed CKD within one year of transplantation based on criteria established by an international clinical guideline, Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO).

Organizations that meet the criteria for affiliation which shall have been established by the Council may be elected by the Council as Affiliates of the Association.

Affiliated organizations that no longer meet the criteria for affiliation may be disaffiliated by the Council in accordance with procedures which shall have been established by the Council.

Meanwhile, only 36 percent met one of the three criteria established by The Joint Commission for appropriate use of multiple antipsychotics.

Thus, molecular imaging by means of PSMA - PET / CT also has an important role as a stratification criterion, and the «theranostic» concept [combining diagnostic imaging of a biomarker with precise therapy] may be an additional motivation to establish PSMA - PET / CT as a routinely available imaging modality.»

«We did our best to try to meet the criteria established by the ICJ and we have decided to implement our research plan because we are confident we have completed our scientific homework,» Morishita said.

-- From the amounts allocated pursuant to subsection (b) for Indian tribes, the Secretary shall make grants to Indian tribes that comply with the requirement under subsection (d) on the basis of a competition conducted pursuant to specific criteria, as the Secretary shall establish by regulation, for the selection of Indian tribes to receive such amount.

-- The Administrator may establish by regulation criteria and procedures for determining whether, and for implementing a determination that, the expiration of an allowance, offset credit, or term offset credit, established or issued under the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 or the amendments made thereby, or expiration of the ability to use an international emission allowance to comply with section 722, is necessary to ensure the authenticity and integrity of allowances, offset credits, or term offset credits or the allowance tracking system.

-- Offset credits meeting the criteria established in subsection (b) shall be issued not later than 2 weeks following the verification determination made by the Administrator under subsection (a).

-- The Secretary shall establish by rule a program to conduct research to develop additional projects and activities for crops to find additional techniques and methods to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or sequester greenhouse gases that may or may not meet the criteria for offset credits established under the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009.

[6] In the MSLT - 1 trial, patients with isolated nodal recurrence had more total lymph nodes involved by melanoma than patients randomized to SLN biopsy who had a positive biopsy (all of whom were to have CLND; an average of 3.2 lymph nodes involved with metastatic melanoma vs only 1.4 positive nodes, respectively; P <.0001), [2] and were more likely to meet established criteria for adjuvant radiation, [7] which further increases the risk of postoperative lymphedema.