Sentence examples for a standard for determining from inspiring English sources

The Food and Agricultural Act of 1977 introduced cost of production as a standard for determining farm price supports.

The Illinois Supreme Court ruled in 1990 that requiring a chad to be either fully detached or hanging -- detached enough to swing out -- would "set too rigid a standard" for determining voter intent.

Although the lieutenant admitted that the lists could not be expected to include the name of everyone affiliated with ISIS, he said that they were comprehensive enough to function as a standard for determining guilt or innocence.

Under this concept, each of the 33 countries which must curb emissions would accept a target and a standard for determining how much it is emitting two items that are basically settled already.

The above reflections provide a standard for determining when socially value-laden inquiry has gone wrong.

The major approaches we have considered have tried both to define death by capturing its essence and to advance a standard for determining human death that coheres with the definition.

Since there is no statewide law similar to New York City's Local Law 1 of 1982, courts throughout the state applied a different standard for determining a landlord's liability.

The proposal would include a uniform standard for determining whether a suspect qualifies for detention without trial, as judges handling detainee habeas corpus lawsuits have requested.

In that case, the Supreme Court, by a vote of five to four, halted the 2000 Presidential recount in Florida, because the state wasn't using a single standard for determining whether a valid vote had been cast.

The city will also adopt a clear standard for determining inability to pay – a "substantial hardship" on a person, or if she or he earns less than 125percentt of the federal poverty line.

An additional problem in validating detection techniques is the lack of a gold standard for determining the relevance of a computer-detected cluster.