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  • Here at Fortunate Fields, we have carefully defined objective criteria known in advance by which our animals may be measured for fitness; we know exactly which behaviors to select for.†   (source)
  • I take it being sick is not a criterion for him.†   (source)
  • This criterion is met if one parent or grandparent is not Aryan.†   (source)
  • The members of the fraternity nominate the girls, and then we check them out to make sure they meet our criteria.†   (source)
  • What if the things she had or hadn't done for Peter were the wrong criteria for measurement?†   (source)
  • Ten typed-up poems lay beneath a printed rejection slip from Criterion magazine, initialed by Mr. Eliot himself.†   (source)
  • * "It is amply proved that someone with an IQ of 170 is more likely to think well than someone whose IQ is 70, Beyond this, the IQ level becomes relatively unimportant in terms of ordinary occupational aspirations and criteria of success.†   (source)
  • Once a week he scours the internet for six, seven, eight hours at a time to update a list of available homes around the country that fit his criteria: isolated, rural, immediate availability.†   (source)
  • Beauty was not a criterion; the winner was the person who could raise more money in a designated period of time.†   (source)
  • "Tell me," she inquired, "if I may ask, by what criteria do you base your judgments?"†   (source)
  • We chose the breed on one criterion alone: curb appeal.†   (source)
  • Speed, strength, beauty, pale skin, eyes that shift color; and then Jacob's criteria: blood drinkers, enemies of the werewolf, cold-skinned, and immortal.†   (source)
  • In this time, in this place, different standards, different criteria apply.†   (source)
  • Aristotle then emphasized that all three criteria must be present at the same time for man to find happiness and fulfillment.†   (source)
  • They transported cultures in locked suitcases and developed a list of criteria all cells had to meet before being banked: each had to be tested for any possible contamination, and they all had to come directly from the original source.†   (source)
  • For all the fantastic speed of the BC-10, the six hundred thousand steps of the program, punctuated by numerous GOTO loops, took time to run as the machine eliminated natural sounds with its random profile criteria and then locked into the anomalous signal.†   (source)
  • Paul remembered an essay by Edmund Wilson where Wilson had said, in typically grudging Wilson manner, that Wordsworth's criterion for the writing of good poetry , strong emotion recalled in a time of tranquility , would do well enough for most dramatic fiction as well.†   (source)
  • It was of course highly unlikely that anyone would meet the mayor's freshly conceived criteria.†   (source)
  • They perfectly fitted my threefold criteria.†   (source)
  • There were no objective criteria for deciding to put someone into seclusion.†   (source)
  • That was my only criterion.†   (source)
  • After all, Paul met just about every criteria on my guy list.†   (source)
  • I think we need some sort of rubric, some sort of accepted criteria for our work in this class ...or there would be chaos.†   (source)
  • At age thirty-three, Nathanael Greene was the youngest general officer in what constituted the American army, and by conventional criterion, an improbable choice for such responsibility.†   (source)
  • Insofar as it is possible to divide people into categories, the surest criterion is the deep-seated desires that orient them to one or another lifelong activity.†   (source)
  • There were also shadowy alliances between the Ministry of Health and Russian drug companies, which would not get to supply the vast quantities of tb drugs required if price and quality were the criteria.†   (source)
  • Because more than half of all wrestlers end a tournament with either seven, eight, or nine victories, hundreds of bouts fit these criteria.†   (source)
  • Handwritten wills are still valid, if they meet certain criteria.†   (source)
  • Salander was the polar opposite of all the criteria he had set out for personnel in the operations unit of Milton Security.†   (source)
  • There's a medium and a criterion.†   (source)
  • These usually require that riders meet certain criteria relating to age, height, and weight, or warn them not to ride if they have certain medical conditions.†   (source)
  • In 1970, when I began writing Sula, I had already had the depressing experience of reading commentary on my first novel, The Bluest Eye, by both black and white reviewers that—with two exceptions—had little merit since the evaluation ignored precisely the "aesthetics only" criteria it championed.†   (source)
  • They vigorously ignored the truth that their own "principle of objectivity" is not itself an observable fact...and therefore by their own criteria should be put in a state of suspended animation.†   (source)
  • Does that satisfy your criteria for experience, sir?†   (source)
  • It is only in the realm of pure science that truth is an absolute criterion.†   (source)
  • I know I'm being assessed somehow, but I'm not sure on what criteria.†   (source)
  • My friend was censoring his creativity in order to fit the imposed criteria.†   (source)
  • There was the rather eyebrow-raising fact of Bessie Glass's legs, which were comely by any criterion.†   (source)
  • If either land value or population is the criterion, the active wealth of King's County is much greater than that of Montgomery County.†   (source)
  • So using your own criteria for measuring the model cadet, I have done well in two areas of achievement and these two have excelled in only one.†   (source)
  • When all the talk, all the propaganda has been cut away, the criterion is nothing but the color of skin.†   (source)
  • He pointed out that everything in life had been made for the convenience of right-handed people, because they were the majority, and he often used "what the majority wants" as a criterion for what was for the best.†   (source)
  • But whether a teenager likes cigarettes enough to keep using them depends on a very different set of criteria.   (source)
    criteria = reference points against which something can be evaluated
  • The first — and most obvious — criterion is that Connectors know lots of people.†   (source)
  • There was only one criterion for all his decisions: he must do nothing that could harm her.†   (source)
  • By this criterion General Motors produced pure art, whereas Picasso did not.†   (source)
  • Using this criterion, the Constitution falls under a national, not federal, character.†   (source)
  • That is what the engineers call a self-defeating criterion.†   (source)
  • When Aristotle divides natural phenomena into various categories, his criterion is the object's characteristics, or more specifically what it can do or what it does.†   (source)
  • Erected in the late 1950s, when functionality was the single criterion architects valued in design, it's really quite drab.†   (source)
  • ....I have always understood, sir, that the citizens of these States were possessed of a full and entire freedom of opinion upon all subjects civil as well as religious; they have not yet established any infallible criterion of orthodoxy, either in church or state ....and the only political tenet which they could stigmatize with the name of heresy would be that which should attempt to impose an opinion upon their understandings, upon the single principle of authority.†   (source)
  • But then he saw one item which had come from the DEATHMATCH program, DEATHMATCH was a news-scanning computer program that recorded all significant deaths according to whatever criterion the computer was fed.†   (source)
  • In the end, it was revealed in a brief letter to A Quarterly that in the view of the Society — and I will try and quote accurately from memory — 'the most crucial criterion is that the applicant be possessed of a dignity in keeping with his position.†   (source)
  • The New York constitution, to avoid vague and dangerous investigations, has selected a specific age as the criterion of inability.†   (source)
  • One rather bitter, limp-wristed grad who not only believed that The Ten existed but was still angry after thirty years that he had not been selected as a member insisted that one criterion for membership is physical strength.†   (source)
  • There was a set of criteria for the debutantes' escorts too.†   (source)
  • Work that fulfills those three criteria is meaningful.†   (source)
  • But we had been looking for months, and this was the first house that met all our criteria.†   (source)
  • You don't have to go to an inner city to find someone who meets those criteria.†   (source)
  • Jews don't think Jesus was the Messiah because he didn't fulfill the criteria for a Jewish messiah.†   (source)
  • Obviously, my novel did not meet the criteria of the status quo.†   (source)
  • The letter stated that the cadet met all the criteria for membership save one.†   (source)
  • But what she cannot be as certain about are the criteria she uses to form her preferences in that first instant of meeting someone face-toface.†   (source)
  • In Identity Disorder there is a similar clinical picture, but Borderline Personality Disorder preempts the diagnosis of Identity Disorder if the criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder are met, the disturbance is sufficiently pervasive and persistent, and it is unlikely that it will be limited to a developmental stage.... From the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3d edition, revised (1987), pp. 346-47 My Diagnosis.†   (source)
  • And the 'truth' is this same process, since there are no criteria beyond the historical process itself that can determine what is the most true or the most reasonable.†   (source)
  • All the philosophical systems before Hegel had had one thing in common, namely, the attempt to set up eternal criteria for what man can know about the world.†   (source)
  • The actual cause of the infarction is still unknown, and as we know, congestive heart failure does meet the criteria for transplantation:' He set the file aside and leaned forward, facing each of his colleagues in turn.†   (source)
  • Larry is certain of one thing: his winking suggestion that the syllabus line may just be a starting point, that the students may actually search for "some sort of criteria" that "we all can agree on" and have it stick, will mean a few minutes of edgy, vigorous discussion.†   (source)
  • Thus the erosion of foreign plurals in words such as media and criteria is typical of the long development of English, and is nothing to worry about.†   (source)
  • Though the woman he'd met in Cuba worked ardently on his behalf, UNAIDS turned down the application he'd submitted, on the grounds that his AIDS-treatment program failed to meet "sustainability criteria."†   (source)
  • This provoked further controversy, and the pressure of letters continued to build up urging the Society to declare more fully its membership criteria.†   (source)
  • The criteria were: "It can't have religion in it, it can't be mystical, it can't have Spanish in it."†   (source)
  • Media and criteria—"which are plural, but people don't know that because they haven't been taught properly and they think there's a media or a criteria, but there isn't.†   (source)
  • For example, let's say that in one State a short-term resident has all criteria for citizenship but another State requires more qualifications.†   (source)
  • If you cringe when someone says between you and I; bristle at the word hopefully; detest prioritize; if you cherish the distinction between disinterested and uninterested and deplore their being treated as synonyms; if you wonder what's happened to education when you hear criteria used as a singular—then you are probably part of the large body of Americans who feel our language is in a state of serious decline.†   (source)
  • But it strikes me I may have been a little hasty before in dismissing certain aspects of the Hayes Society's criteria for membership.†   (source)
  • In spite of these criteria and some unequal laws in the British code, we can't say that British representatives have elevated the few on the ruins of the many.†   (source)
  • But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership.†   (source)
  • Leaders should not be chosen by popular whim; they should be determined by rigorous scientific criteria.†   (source)
  • All the strict and opulent criteria of taste that had once brought pleasure to the wealthiest merchants of Charleston could be studied at leisure once you crossed the threshold of Twenty-Five East Bay Street.†   (source)
  • —NEW CRITERION, June 1928.†   (source)
  • He wondered what criterion people used when they applied the tags "good" and "bad" to their fellowmen.†   (source)
  • Is the lot of the average human being, however, he asked himself, the criterion by which we judge the measure of civilization?†   (source)
  • But even during the Renaissance, and as long as Western art was endeavoring to perfect its technique, victories in this realm could only be signalized by success in realistic imitation, since there was no other objective criterion at hand.†   (source)
  • He was groping towards Right as a criterion of its own—towards Justice as an abstract thing which did not lean upon power.†   (source)
  • What criterion ought one to adopt, in order to judge one's fellows?†   (source)
  • He is the measure of all things and his salvation is the criterion of truth.†   (source)
  • Its salvation, its dignity, its power is the criterion of morality.†   (source)
  • The most celebrated authors of that generation had been "gentlemen"; perhaps the unknown persons who succeeded them had gentlemanly sentiments, but their origin, their appearance, their hair, their intimacy with the stage and the Opera, made any old New York criterion inapplicable to them.†   (source)
  • It is of course extremely difficult to collect satisfactory data on such a point,—difficult to reach the men, to get trustworthy testimony, and to gauge that testimony by any generally acceptable criterion of success.†   (source)
  • "You understand," he said, "that in a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, it was better out there, incomparably more comfortable, by any criterion the most agreeable state of affairs that Hans Castorp could remember ever having tried out—a judgment from which he could not be dissuaded by some writer and Carbonaro who made malicious remarks with snide connotations about the "horizontal life."†   (source)
  • After some minutes, he returned, with his legs thoroughly stretched, if the hue of his nose and a short hiccup afforded any criterion; and at the same time there came out of the yard a rusty pony-chaise, and a cart, driven by two labouring men.†   (source)
  • It has been sometimes argued that there is no truer criterion of the vitality of any given art-period than the power of the master-spirits of that time in grotesque; and certainly in the instance of Gothic art there is no disputing the proposition.†   (source)
  • Though the certainty of this criterion is far from demonstrable, yet it has the savor of analogical probability.†   (source)
  • It was the feeling that induces a volunteer recruit to spend his last penny on drink, and a drunken man to smash mirrors or glasses for no apparent reason and knowing that it will cost him all the money he possesses: the feeling which causes a man to perform actions which from an ordinary point of view are insane, to test, as it were, his personal power and strength, affirming the existence of a higher, nonhuman criterion of life.†   (source)
  • The public taste and the public heart are the final criteria of the artist.†   (source)
  • Anyone who looked more white folkish than herself was better than she was in her criteria, therefore it was right that they should be cruel to her at times, just as she was cruel to those more negroid than herself in direct ratio to their negroness.†   (source)
  • He mocked at his reasoning, calling it specious and "American"—his criteria of uncerebral phrase-making was that it was American.†   (source)
  • In the modern confrontation with bourgeois-capitalist rot, the world's proletariat embodies the humanity and criteria of the City of God.†   (source)
  • This curious criterion, fantastic as it must have seemed to [Pg011] European philologists, was presently reinforced, for in his fourth article Lounsbury announced that his discussion was "restricted to the /written/ speech of educated men."†   (source)
  • On trying the Constitution by this criterion, it falls under the NATIONAL, not the FEDERAL character; though perhaps not so completely as has been understood.†   (source)
  • In relation to such a subject, the natural and obvious sense of its provisions, apart from any technical rules, is the true criterion of construction.†   (source)
  • Where is the measure or criterion to which we can appeal, for determining what will give the Senate too much, too little, or barely the proper degree of influence?†   (source)
  • The constitution of New York, to avoid investigations that must forever be vague and dangerous, has taken a particular age as the criterion of inability.†   (source)
  • Who will undertake to unite the discordant opinions of a whole community, in the same judgment of it; and to prevail upon one conceited projector to renounce his INFALLIBLE criterion for the FALLIBLE criterion of his more CONCEITED NEIGHBOR?†   (source)
  • No man who is acquainted with the State of New York will doubt that the active wealth of King's County bears a much greater proportion to that of Montgomery than it would appear to be if we should take either the total value of the lands or the total number of the people as a criterion!†   (source)
  • It is the character bestowed on them by the laws under which they live; and it will not be denied, that these are the proper criterion; because it is only under the pretext that the laws have transformed the negroes into subjects of property, that a place is disputed them in the computation of numbers; and it is admitted, that if the laws were to restore the rights which have been taken away, the negroes could no longer be refused an equal share of representation with the other inhabitants.†   (source)
  • If the principles on which these observations are founded be just, as I persuade myself they are, and they be applied as a criterion to the several State constitutions, and to the federal Constitution it will be found that if the latter does not perfectly correspond with them, the former are infinitely less able to bear such a test.†   (source)
  • If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on, a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for a limited period, or during good behavior.†   (source)
  • If we therefore take his ideas on this point as the criterion of truth, we shall be driven to the alternative either of taking refuge at once in the arms of monarchy, or of splitting ourselves into an infinity of little, jealous, clashing, tumultuous commonwealths, the wretched nurseries of unceasing discord, and the miserable objects of universal pity or contempt.†   (source)
  • The Highlands hardly seemed a likely spot for a mass murderer, but then I doubted such persons used any sort of logical criteria when picking their sites.†   (source)
  • His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had   (source)
    criteria = points of evaluation
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