Sentence examples for absence of common standards from inspiring English sources

The difficulty in undertaking this survey highlights the complexity of obtaining an Organization-wide assessment of research activity in the absence of common standards for research classification, methods for priority setting and a mechanism across WHO, or within the governance of global health research more generally, for managing a research portfolio.

Use of common standards and reference samples.

The resolution says: "The absence of common international standards on the import, export and transfer of conventional arms is a contributory factor to conflict, displacement of people, crime and terrorism".

This process is further complicated by occurrences of missing or conflicting information and the absence of common annotation standards between different data sources.

But in the absence of common sense, names like Donald Fehr and George Steinbrenner have emerged as dream candidates.

One flaw in the free-trade zone approach is the absence of common external tariffs.

The absence of common format for digital objects also causes problems of interaction and communication.

A tension seems certain to persist between a common currency and the absence of common fiscal and other policies to support it.

In the absence of common objectives from leaders, individuals and groups create their own.

The absence of common links between DCs is promised by constraint set (11).

"The absence of common sense prevents an intelligent system from understanding its world, communicating naturally with people, behaving reasonably in unforeseen situations, and learning from new experiences.