criterion
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She added that no single criterion is weighted above the others and that Aritzia’s employees reflect a range of backgrounds, ages, ethnicities and body types.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Speaking in the assembly on Monday, Givan said the context of pre-school places is "very different" compared to when the SDC criterion were introduced.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
"Coolness and summer comfort have become a property criterion in their own right," she said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
“My first criterion is: Has the hospice been around for longer than 15 years?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2026
The first — and most obvious — criterion is that Connectors know lots of people.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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The treaty does not specify the geographical criteria of a European state, but it's hard to imagine Canada qualifies.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Givan said that only benefits specifically named in the legislation - Income Support and Jobseeker's Allowance - would be applied as SDC criteria from September 2027.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
In a paragraph outlining the evaluation process and criteria, they wrote:
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
The rules also allow schools to continue using religious criteria for admissions and scholarships, as long as they don’t base those decisions on ancestry or ethnicity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
But whether or not the selection of wild edible plants by ancient hikers relied on conscious or unconscious criteria, the resulting evolution of wild plants into crops was at first an unconscious process.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Certain rot-producing fungi impart to wood characteristic colors which thus become criterions of weakness.
From The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber Testing by Samuel J. Record
Other schools are not criterions for this ramshackle establishment, anyhow.
From Mary Louise by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
It is this sentiment which causes Freethought to take the form of Secularism, and exchanges the verbal distractions of conflicting creeds for the clear criterions of moral truth.
From The Limits Of Atheism Or, Why should Sceptics be Outlaws? by George Jacob Holyoake
These, for the advantage of the public, ought to be universally the same throughout the kingdom; being the general criterions which reduce all things to the same or an equivalent value.
From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Sir William Blackstone
First, they are no more the criterions of obeisance and respect, than mourning garments are the criterions of sorrow.
From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 by Thomas Clarkson
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