Sentence examples for Ad hoc measures from inspiring English sources

In a day of ad hoc measures, a visiting Chinese military delegation here resorted to taking the Metro subway rather than a motorcade to reach a high-level meeting with officials at the Pentagon.

After a painful and, for many, inexplicable delay, the Administration is finally shifting from an ineffectual series of ad hoc measures to a comprehensive program that targets key impediments to job creation.

He has unveiled a collection of ad hoc measures, including the nationalization of pension funds, new taxes on services and a decree giving Hungarians, many of whom borrowed in other currencies to finance their homes during the credit boom, the possibility of paying off their foreign-currency-denominated mortgages at artificially favorable rates.

Mr. Shelby complained that the emerging program seemed to be "a series of ad hoc measures" rather than the kind of comprehensive approach that is needed.

Historians have debated whether Peter's legislation was informed by an overall plan based on more or less clearly formulated theoretical considerations or whether it was merely a series of ad hoc measures taken to meet emergencies as they occurred.

There has also been a tendency to use ad hoc measures with little attention to issues of reliability and validity.

However, downsizing used as an ad hoc measure solely to reduce costs may hinder the full potential of human capital restructuring, regardless of its use as a measure to increase efficiency, or as a turnaround move (Freeman and Cameron 1993).

This is an ad hoc measure whereby, if the concentration ratio of the Hispanic population over the total workforce in each of those occupations is over 1.3, then the occupation is classified as Hispanic dominated; otherwise, if it is less, it is considered non-Hispanic dominated.

It was therefore necessary to derive an ad hoc measure for this study.

Also, the variance-covariance matrix of the adjusted means was used to compute an ad hoc measure of heritability according to equation 16.

Equation 11 was used to compute an ad hoc measure of heritability from the variance covariance matrix of the adjusted means.