Criteria Quotations

Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would have to be that the companies are stronger financially, that they took market share, and they are on a very steady footing in terms of their performance.

Our criteria is that it's okay to invest in companies so long as they stop lobbying in Washington, stop exploring for new hydrocarbons, and sit down with every one else to plan to keep 80 percent of the reserves in the ground.

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.

I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging.

Luxury brands are about elite access. In consumer goods, that's elite cost. In education, it's elite criteria for admission. Minerva is maintaining those high standards, but not artificially limiting the number of people who can meet it... This really may be redefining education.

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.

My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.

The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.

I feel like, to have a career as an artist, you don't need to meet the same criteria as you do to win a singing competition. They're two very different animals.

If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so.

As a condition for entry into the Chinese market, Apple had to agree to the Chinese government's censorship criteria in vetting the content of all iPhone apps available for download on devices sold in mainland China.

Any item in your wardrobe should satisfy one of two criteria: utility and joy.

One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.

One of the criteria for a global company is that it should have a manufacturing presence in multiple countries and should not only be an exporter.

I've been asked for years to do a reality show. One of my criteria is that I would be given the opportunity to show a strong family unit.

The longer people watch Netflix and the longer they stay members - they're the criteria of success for us.

In 'The Hunger Games,' in most people's idea, in terms of rebellion or a civil-war situation, that would meet the criteria for a necessary war. These people are oppressed, their children are being taken off and put in gladiator games. They're impoverished, they're starving, they're brutalized.

To have full and multiple criteria is the best way to decide who is best prepared to be on that Olympic team.

To minimize market uncertainty and achieve the maximum effect of its policies, the Federal Reserve is committed to providing the public as much information as possible about the uses of its balance sheet, plans regarding future uses of its balance sheet, and the criteria on which the relevant decisions are based.

There are certain criteria set by the Official World Golf Rankings Board to award world ranking points in a tournament,

We strictly abided by the selection criteria we had set and we did not want to go back on our words by diverting from it.

Until the LTTE fits into the criteria of good governance we will not agree to the Joint Mechanism.

Whether or not an object has a moon is not part of the criteria that we've considered, because so many small objects in the solar system have moons,

We're going to pick the best available player in the draft. If there's two players of equal value and talent, the next criteria is let's address our need as a football team.

What we're looking for are the criteria a facility has to adhere to pass an audit.

We found that 70 percent of these activities are still in progress, ... Yet even with the additional weight placed on these criteria, more than half of the 24 departments and agencies earned 'A's' this quarter. Just as you would not grade college seniors on the same set of criteria expected of college juniors, our expectations for this quarter rose.

Very few schools meet the Title IX criteria on proportionality.

We're better insulated than the S&P 500 would be, because of the type of companies our social criteria lead us away from, ... Social criteria take you away from rust-bucket America.

I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.

The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health

The real important thing about Digital-Original publication goes beyond the fact that authors make more money off each sale than through traditional publishing. It's that we get to bypass a system of gatekeepers who have more than 'quality' as criteria for what they choose.

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

When I bought him, he worked an eighth of a mile in 102/5. That was the criteria my owner wanted: a well-bred horse that worked in 10 and change and didn't cost a couple hundred thousand. We would have given a lot more for him.

When we screened, we had 56 respond to the advertisements. Only 19 met the criteria of pre-diabetic.

When these organizations looked back, in terms of criteria they did or would use to select CRM software, product capabilities were not nearly as important as most once thought they were.

Like in every city, some are healthy, some suffer. We try to establish a criteria and separate one mega city from another. The crucial points we look for are that the city has to be a critical place (whether regionally or globally speaking) and it needs to have a critical system which the entire city depends on,

Many household chemicals meet at least one of these criteria to varying degrees.

Secondly, quality of life is always very high on the list of criteria for why companies or people or families locate or relocated in an area.

She was pretty high on our 'buy list.' She met all the criteria we look for in a racehorse.

Momentum as a selection criteria works very well. My data suggests that you don't want to focus on laggards, even after they've turned the corner,

One of my goals as president of ASLMS is to try to establish some criteria for certification of who's qualified to do specific procedures, ... As you might guess, it's politically charged.

My criteria when looking for a role is that I will do anything that stands the chance of succeeding on the level it is intended to. After that, if it's a part I can do something personal with.

Obviously the council needs to figure out what criteria they're looking for. They indicated they're going to do a national search. Part of the process is to determine what traits and skill sets they're looking for in a city manager. I don't know what direction council wants to go. That obviously will be a huge factor for candidates both internal and external.

My sense is that we probably will refine the criteria on which we base a 1,000-foot buffer, ... The one thing we've undertaken quickly is we have a map that would show what a 1,000-foot buffer looks like around our schools.

On the limited evidence presented, it appears the secretary has exercised her reasoned judgement to determine what relevant factors and criteria should be considered, ... My order requires nothing more. The plaintiff's motion is denied.

One of the overriding criteria for including an object in the show was the quality of its craftsmanship, ... As long as the quality of design and the quality of production were high, it was an Arts and Crafts object.

One of the most important elements of our extensive diamond education materials is helping consumers understand what diamond characteristics are most important to them. With our new interactive search, consumers can choose the criteria by which they want to search, sort and select.

One of the most important criteria for the Air Force is to have it self-contained, and Midland already has everything in place, ... I'm confident the Air Force will pick the best location for its pilots' training program.

I would say, and we have always said, that this should not be used as the only criteria to pick a hospital. But it does say which hospitals are well-aligned.

I don't have any say in the criteria that's already been determined and me making speculations right now would be just that, speculations. What we have to do is maintain hope, and hope that we've done enough during the season to go the NCAA tournament. Past that, there's not a whole lot more we can say.

I don't know this gentleman, ... Obviously he has some money, but that isn't the criteria for us to throw out Gen. Eisenhower and name something after someone who's got a couple of million dollars. We're not that poor. We don't need to set this type of precedent.

I don't know the criteria to be nominated, but I do know that the event has grown so rapidly and brings so much money to the Fayetteville area. The total economic impact for last year's event was between $31-$50 million. It's the largest single event in the state. We've got a lot to be proud of.

I couldn't really see what was going out there (in Collins' match) and that was unfortunate for us, too. Dustin was working hard for the pin and I believe he was called for an illegal headlock. If Dustin gets the pin we would have each had three. I don't know what the rest of the criteria are - there's a list of about 12 things you go down - but it's one of those things we'll never know now.

China is not yet qualified to receive the recognition of market economy status by Europe. There are technical criteria which China needs to fulfill, in which it's making progress towards fulfilling.

If internal executives are deliberately misrepresenting internally, and then externally the company's position, and if it's material and causes harm to investors, well that satisfies a lot of the criteria for fraud.

For me, the criteria has to be to find that individual that has the right philosophy and the right experience to get through a confirmation process, ... There are women that fit those characterizations. There are Hispanics, African-Americans.

Fundamentally, you can say we have a blank sheet of paper on the table right now, but with the principles and criteria on which we will appoint these people.

I encourage people to consider the two languages according to their design criteria and not just in the context of commercial rivalries.

I don't think it will be that difficult to match the (10) highlighted criteria on this list. There are probably quite a few people out there who have done these things.

Given the startling data that 7 1/2-percent of school-age children will at some point be diagnosed with ADHD you have to look at why the numbers are as high as they are, ... One needs to be extra careful about the criteria used in the new study. A child with ADHD has to be impaired in more than one setting and they didn't have data to show that.

He is accused and has pleaded guilty to acting as an agent for North Korea; he was not accused or charged with espionage. In order for us to prove a case involving espionage, there's certain legal criteria that must be met.

Heinz is confident that this acquisition will meet the criteria for final clearance. This deal has already received approval from the merger authorities in Ireland and Germany.

help protect important information of the government and private sectors. IT security criteria common to Europe and North America will help broaden the market for these products and further lead to economies of scale.

There is an on-boarding process. They have to meet stringent criteria that allow them to get past the gate.

We looked at every vehicle in the off-road market. The Rhino was the only vehicle that was capable of delivering on the thrill seeker's need for adventure while meeting our critical criteria for ease of use, safety and easy maintenance. An adventure of this kind is not available anywhere else in the world!

We looked at basically the Olympic selection criteria we're dealing with and we had a healthy discussion. We felt she had a better chance to medal.

He wanted to try to walk on the team, and I set criteria for him where if he could do certain dives then I would let him walk on, and he achieved that.

There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

It basically enables people to separate very complex decision criteria outside of the code.

it is a criteria that eventually could be applied and extended to any other case.

I think the number one criteria (for getting into NCAA Tournament) has to be how you did in your conference.

It is frustrating, really hugely disappointing, to not know the issue for this reexamination, if that's what it is, or the criteria upon which they'll ultimately make a decision. They have not raised anything in terms of a change in the circumstances of the company.

I think it was encouraging that the application met the majority of the criteria for project approval.

It is not just meeting the ... criteria - this is a question of justice for the future, ... For me it is a question of destiny.

It is near the academic core of campus, near the health sciences, which are heavy users of the science curriculum and it met more of the evaluation matrix criteria in a positive manner than any other site.

It is a sad testament of the absurdity of the ratings code and the completely illogical moral criteria that provide the underpinning for it, where any form of violence is perfectly acceptable for kids but sexuality continues to be the ultimate taboo,

I think there is a real worry in Washington that if one of the criteria (for membership on the human rights council) becomes the ratification of human rights treaties, that the U.S. will have a hard time getting on.

Jean has met the criteria for this award over and over again - that's been proven.

KSU is in the third wave of institutions under new criteria. The change in accreditation criteria now requires that institutions complete a QEP.

Our criteria is pretty simple. We wanted something that look good and, obviously, said football. We wanted something crisp and clean and that wasn't very busy.

Our criteria for good data feeds are that they need to be dynamic enough to be interesting, something that users want to attune to throughout the day, etc.

Our carriers are doing extremely well, better than in years past. We attribute that to the fact that ... we inspect based on criteria developed with the (bus) industry.

Our acquisition pace has been strong and steady, and we have established a track record for not only finding hospitals that fit our criteria but also for successfully assimilating these facilities into our system.

Right now projects come to us with an application and we go through a review process which includes an environmental impact study and a provided that it meets all the criteria and the studies are complete and they can begin the construction.

Really, when all is over and done with, people will judge a quarterback by wins and losses. That's the best criteria you can have. Sure, we want him to improve his completion percentage. We'd like for him to complete every pass he throws, but you have to be realistic. This offense develops, for many young players, from the inside out. We're moving along at just the right pace.

Our research-based approach distinguishes the Learning Leaders Program from other industry recognition programs. The benchmark criteria that will be used to evaluate submissions is based on years of quantitative and qualitative research and endorsed by our panel of senior industry advisors. Our research database, by far the largest and most comprehensive source of information related to enterprise learning, gives us the ability to rigorously assess organizations against peer performance in more than 21 different dimensions.

Passengers not legitimately under suspicion should not have to fear that their private effects and private lives will be held up to public scrutiny, ... Safety and privacy will not be assured if people are targeted for searches based on incorrect criteria instead of evidence.

Our objective was to select an anti-spam and anti-virus provider that complimented our overall corporate strategy of continually providing our customers with 'best-of-breed' solutions. Another key criteria for our search was to implement a solution that would be easy to manage and administer.

Some of our schools didn't meet the AYP criteria because they are large and ethnically more diverse, and they had to cross more thresholds.

It does feel that there is going to be a sea change in the business, that there isn't going to be a hit every week of the summer. It's a concern, and the bar for the movies that are going to do well seems to have been raised this summer. I don't think anyone wants to live in a world where you have to have one of the biggest movie stars, with one of the biggest directors with a giant concept like aliens invading earth, as your criteria for a hit. It's a pretty high place to put the bar.

Jim's a great coach. From a defensive perspective, I know he brings us a lot of things we can hang our hat on. I definitely think he has the ability. I don't know the Packers' criteria for deciding if a guy's good or not, but he definitely has the kind of leadership required. He led the defense to be pretty good.

It is flawed slightly and needs some tweaking so if someone is injured or sick, they still have a chance of staking a claim. Generally, I've never had problems with our criteria as it's cut-throat and you must perform on the day. But there should be something discretionary to allow athletes, in special circumstances, the chance to be in the program.

The application and registration process at the ministry of environment requires criteria like community involvement, training of community game guards, management skills, and management plans must be drawn up to obtain approval by the authorities.

Most of the criteria matched up, but there was a slight discrepancy in one of the cowlicks. This incident happened on the weekend, and normally, our identifier would have called The Jockey Club as a backup. The Jockey Club office was closed, however, so our identifier had the option of letting the horse run or scratching it.

Most definitions of a 100-year event were calculated before Ivan and Katrina. At this point, are the 100-year criteria good enough?

When Target applied to open its industrial bank in 2004, we didn't get a single comment from the public. We've gotten 4, 000 letters and witnesses for the Wal-Mart application. The majority are negative. But popularity is not a criteria for an industrial bank.

You can build your own query and create your own report criteria or organize a dashboard that is most appropriate for your business users.

While we've been clear in reminding everyone that this was a possibility, we remained optimistic that there would be a way to avoid reaching this juncture. To date there has not been a firm offer put forward that meets the financial criteria necessary to continue operations as is.

We don't feel at this time that Haiti fulfills the very narrow criteria provided by Congress.