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June 16, 2008

Criteria

criteria (plural noun) - standards used for making decisions and judgements

criterion (singular noun)

satisfy criteria
meet criteria
fulfil criteria
conform to criteria
comply with criteria

decisionmaking criteria
selection criteria
performance criteria
cost-benefit criteria for a government project
appraisal criteria
eligibility criteria
complex eligibility criteria
evaluative criteria
deciding upon success criteria for plans

failed to meet the corporation's plant closure criteria
criteria for allocating resources
criteria for success
statutory criteria

a list of criteria
the range of criteria that will be used
the sole citeria
the main criteria

strict criteria
stringent criteria
objective criteria

clear cut criteria
vague criteria
specific criteria
general criteria
discuss the criteria
complex criteria

use criteria
criteria used to make a decision
adopt criteria
agree to adopt these criteria
establish criteria
lay down criteria
apply criteria
according to the criteria
awareness of criteria

suppliers have to meet certain criteria in order to be selected to distribute a product

nationalise the enterprises and force them to invest on criteria other than those of profitability


Example sentences:

* In order to improve and enhance performance, appraisal must conform to the following criteria...

* Well that is the list of criteria that will be used to make the decision.

* Such deals have to meet a number of criteria, apart from the credit rating of banks which participate in the programme.

* The project manager claimed that the road met the government's (controversial) cost-benefit criteria, and added that its construction could provide 60,000 jobs and attract 100,000 people into new towns and villages in the area.

* There is no reason in principle why a local authority or an organisation such as the NSPCC should not have to satisfy these criteria before they are given the go ahead on their projects.

* The judge declined to find that any of the information contained in the report were confidential within the criteria laid down in previous decision.

* Central to the programme has been an awareness of the following criteria...

* My criteria would be the same as her's.

* The new law would require American firms based in Northern Ireland to abandon their operations there unless they complied with strict anti-discrimination criteria.

* Postmodernism has created a reading community with specific expectations and evaluative criteria of its own.

* The manufacturer could impose full-line forcing, obliging the retailer to take a whole range of its products if it takes one, or tie-in sales, no X sold without Y. It could impose exclusive purchasing (no products of a certain description to be bought from anywhere but itself), and may offer selective and exclusive distribution agreements (suppliers have to meet certain criteria in order to be selected to distribute a product, and may be offered an exclusive territory or even absolute territorial protection).

* If a given investment project within the domain of operation of capitalist enterprises were considered desirable as part of an investment plan (to satisfy a definite social need, to gain export revenue, to develop a growth industry, to preserve employment) and yet the capitalist enterprises concerned were unwilling to invest then the investment planning authorities would have two broad options: either nationalise the enterprises and force them to invest on criteria other than those of profitability, or distort the market to render the project sufficiently profitable to appeal to the enterprises.

* Amongst the performance criteria to be taken into account when deciding allocations will be local government's willingness to involve the private sector in the management and maintenance of its housing stock, and the extent of tenant participation in the management of estates.

* Criteria were divided between two types: primary (child care) criteria which concentrated on assessing familial circumstances likely to pertain if a child were to remain at home; and secondary (disclosure) criteria which either substantiated or refuted children's and young people's disclosures.

* When the plan is being constructed and teachers are deciding upon success criteria for plans they may put searching questions and suggest additional ways to ensure that objectives become reality: if a school aims involve all pupils are checks being made to see whether this is occurring?

* Council officers are especially worried about the reviewers' recommendation that the statutory criteria for selecting SSSIs, which are at present purely scientific, should take into account administration and finance.

* It is unlikely that narrow initiatives (like criteria targeting based upon statistical projections of likely future needs) will provide schools with the workforce which is required.

* Criteria for the selection of the two hospitals to be targeted for early closure were put forward.

* We may tend to assume that other companies and cultures operate with the same sorts of motivations and criteria of success as we do, despite the fact that Japanese companies, for instance, turn in a very low rate of profit compared to those in the United Kingdom, and indeed do not need to do so because of the low interest charges and ready availability of capital in their country.

* In response to a request from a member we ask a named practitioner (medical or alternative) if he or she has evidence of efficacy that meets these criteria and, if not, if he or she is obtaining such evidence.

* That is, the initial inductive inference, which was legitimate insofar as it satisfied the criteria specified by the principle of induction, would have led to a false conclusion, in spite of the fact that all premises of the inference were true.

* The appeal committee dismissed the applicant's appeals, stating that to put any more pressure on a year intake that was up to its capacity would be beyond the school's resources and detrimental to its ability to provide an efficient education, and that the girls did not meet the admission criteria.

* The Bank shall not grant an application unless satisfied that the criteria specified in Schedule 3 to this Act are fulfilled with respect to the applicant.

* This restricted coverage is largely the result of the complex eligibility criteria governing the selection process.

* The third solution is, however, a practical possibility provided that the criteria for changing from one system to the other are sufficiently clear cut to avoid too much special pleading.

* Those criteria should be sent to the Housing Executive immediately so that it can begin to process such cases.

* According to the acquisition criteria on our database these could be of interest to you.

* The criteria for doing so will be specific to the company but will always include a minimum return on investment in addition to non-financial criteria.

* The criteria for assessing the likely return on a project and attitudes for the risks involved will differ between sources of finance.

* It seems to me that it is then a matter for the local plan to erm promote or decide erm a more de probably more detailed list of locational criteria, and then the local planning authority considers erm the alternative locations following public consultations and possibly invite erm schemes at that stage.


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