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Meaning criterion meaning
What does criterion mean?
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Simple sentences
What criterion did you use when you elected this essay as the winner?
Money is not a criterion of success.
I divide all literary works into two categories: those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.
Movie subtitles
That's your second criterion.
First a barmaid at the Criterion and now a waitress.
At the Criterion.
Erm.when you were at the Criterion, did you ever run into anyone with my name?
The criterion is not fame, it is simply to have lived a worthwhile life.
But if you're judging us as a people by the way we treat our children, and there can be no better criterion, then you must understand how deeply we care for them.
In Denmark you only have one criterion for death. In Sweden, we have two.
Is that a criterion?
Yeah, but you've got no criterion.
You know what criterion is?
Criterion.
Have you got criterion, Jose?
Criterion?
You know as well as I the only criterion for the lifetime achievement award is survival.
What's the criterion?
The possibilities of following any route on this map were so numerous, I wondered by what criterion I should make a choice.
What was you criterion for destruction?
There's two crazy raccoons that remind me of those Criterion brothers.
Sleep all day long and hang out with the Criterion brothers?
In Denmark you only have one criterion for death.
We must have some criterion.
But is that his selection criterion?
Tell me on exactly what basis you award the star. - What's the criterion?
There are ways of putting nucleic acids together which will function far better by any criterion you wish to choose than the hereditary instructions of any human being who has ever lived.
When I was younger. At the Criterion.
Money - is a good criterion.
I still use that criterion to judge photographs, my own and those of my colleges.
By no criterion by which planets are judged could Pluto be said to be a planet.
News and current affairs
A logical corollary of the criteria set forth by Kenen and Obstfeld, and even of Mundell's labor-mobility criterion, is that currency unions cannot survive without political legitimacy, most likely involving region-wide popular elections.
According to almost every economic and financial criterion, the SDR basket should now include China's renminbi.
The debt criterion, for example, could be supplemented by a limit on the (trend) growth rate of public spending, which would be kept below that of nominal GDP.
Determining whether an action meets that criterion is a decision that only a country's political leaders can make.
Both research teams rate Albania, Bangladesh, the Gambia, Malaysia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey as meeting the three-year criterion, with all but Albania and Niger meeting the five-year criterion.
Because both India and China did increase trade substantially, they are both considered as globalizers by the World Bank's criterion.
One criterion that seems universally accepted is a party's use, encouragement, or at least condoning of violence - as was evidently the case with Golden Dawn's role in attacks on immigrants in Athens.
If states feel compelled to act in the case of Council stalemate, they should know that they would do less damage to their reputations if they act within the Panel's guidelines for legitimacy, even if they fail to satisfy its criterion for legality.
As one would expect, there is no criterion, not even a theory, for determining when the use of force carries an excessive cost to civilian bystanders.
To make the quality of the banking system a new criterion for euro membership is not only hypocritical; it is also counterproductive.
Instead of exploiting the current opportunity of unprecedented leverage over euro candidates to push them to meet the Maastricht criteria, euro incumbents are contemplating a new and exceedingly vague criterion based on the quality of banking systems.
Italy did not fulfill another criterion as well, as its national currency, the lira, did not spend the mandatory two years inside the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.
The convergence criterion on exchange rates is in similar disarray.
Given the US record since the doctrine was formulated, another criterion should be added: the main beneficiaries of military intervention are not America's mortal enemies.
The UN Security Council is charged with addressing breaches or threats to international peace, a criterion that is now clearly met.
If SOEs' reinvested income is not subject to a high return criterion, growth will eventually slow.
They are getting away with their power grab even though it goes against the Maastricht Treaty, which excludes nationality as a criterion for membership on the Executive Board.
Ultimately, economic convergence among countries cannot be only an entry criterion for monetary union, or a condition that is met some of the time.
An important criterion for the choice of additional measures should be the extent of their influence over broad financing conditions in the private economy.
The underlying question is whether merit as a criterion for advancement is doomed when legacies of racial and caste discrimination exist.
By using caste as a criterion in public policy, India's government is effectively treating the rich and the poor equally, thereby conveying benefits to the former.
Lack of vocational competence never barred Indians from remaining in their caste, and how well one performs in political office is, likewise, not a criterion for politicians to continue in positions of power.
One may wonder whether today's highly competitive, funding-starved scientific atmosphere, in which publications and citations have become a primary criterion for success, can accommodate such mistakes.
No matter what criterion one uses, Japan's economy remains the most closed among OECD countries and one of the most closed in the world.