Sentence examples for a strict ranking from inspiring English sources

But rather than tying promotions to a strict ranking of test scores, which can work against non-white candidates, the department divides the results into different bands, some as wide as 12 points.

In a strict ranking by ridership versus APTA's 1st Quarter 2008 Light Rail Agency Statistics as shown in Table 2, both Pelz' and OKI's predictions rank fairly well.

For years, the department has adhered to a strict ranking system to prioritize calls for service: A commercial robbery in progress or a sexual assault is a higher priority than, say, a home burglary that has already occurred.

Prosecutor Patrick Hill has previously alleged that Salerno authored a 51-page "bible" for the cult, that he prompted his followers to frequently utter the words "praise Taipan", and that he established a strict ranking system where members of the group were classed according to their "emotional quotient", The Advertiser reported.

Merit-based admission has led to strict ranking among the schools and severely intensified competition, which has contributed to a number of problems notably bullying and other violence and absenteeism that have beset the Japanese educational system for years.

"Some men like Jack/ and some like Jill; / I'm glad I like them both; but still…/ In the strict ranks/ of Gay and Straight/ What is my status?/ Stray? or Great?" When Vikram Seth wrote "Dubious" many years ago, he may not have realized how long his poem would live.

Frequent social conflicts among goats due to their strict rank relationships can pose problems in loose housing of goats by negatively influencing feeding and resting times of low-ranking group members.

A strict vegetarian, Agarwal ranked 10th on the annual Sunday Times Rich List of Britain's wealthiest people, with a fortune of £4.1bn.

Based on the cost-distance analysis method, we constructed a three-rank (basic, moderate and strict-rank) composite ESP of Gaoming (Guangdong, China) aiming at protecting the survivals and habitat securities of rare vegetations, wild animals and human beings.

More generally, the hyperreal number with last digit 9 at infinite hypernatural rank H, satisfies a strict inequality uH < 1. Accordingly, an alternative interpretation for "zero followed by infinitely many 9s" could be :\underset{H}{0.\underbrace{999\ldots}}\; = 1\ -\ \frac{1}{10^{H}}.

Yet unlike most members of this fast-fading network of genteel affluence, who abide by a strict code of discretion, Ms. Singh has broken ranks by writing a memoir, "Durbar," transporting readers into these privileged cocoons.