Word: criterion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...says. He was there for what he considered a crucial battle. The Convention spent very little time debating its prohibition on women pastors--there are only 35 in the country anyway--but labored over a proposal to delete a sentence in the denomination's guiding document stating that "the criterion by which the Bible is to be interpreted is Jesus Christ," replacing it with language suggesting that Scripture, as God's direct revelation, must be regarded as the ultimate authority...
...Presidential Debate Commission's rules state that a candidate must register at least 15 percent in the opinion polls in order to join the debates. I suppose the commission needs a criterion, some qualifying poll percentage. Otherwise, how could they exclude, say, the Ovolactarian Party's candidate from the debates? But I devoutly hope that both Nader and Buchanan make it to the finals...
This augmentation of the academic experience ought to be the criterion for future efforts to spur technology-related entrepreneurship, and the College should be wary of dramatic changes in response to technological or commercial stimuli where the benefits to students are unclear. Such a warning is necessary because there are strong incentives for the College to begin to make such changes...
...short article about the Frothingham and its "manliness" criterion appeared in most recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education...
...artists were considered important; different painters and sculptors exerted an influence on what was then the present. In some respects the art world was more tolerant, because the notion of an avant-garde was not yet all-encompassing. The ideal of high craft, of sheer manifest skill as a criterion of aesthetic success, had not yet been consigned to the trash can, and artists placed a value on drawing--however mistakenly they might sometimes have interpreted it--that was still very much alive...