Sentence examples for ad hoc steps from inspiring English sources

Thus, what followed was a series of ad hoc steps by the central bank in absence of any political consensus.

But the conditions in which NATO made a first, ad hoc step here seemed to be just the opposite.

As McDonald's has struggled the company's compensation committee has taken a "variety of ad-hoc steps" to increase Thomson's already "considerable" remuneration, says CtW. Thompson's total compensation in 2013 fell by more than $4m, to nearly $9.5m.

As opposed to comRNA which uses several ad-hoc steps, RNAmine proposed in [ 38] uses a more systematic approach using graph mining ideas to extract stem patterns.

Dithering by Germany over aid to Greece, lashing out at speculators, ad hoc regulatory steps -- notably Berlin's decision to extend a ban on certain trading activity -- and an abrupt U-turn from the European Central Bank over whether to buy government bonds have all given the sense of an erratic official response to fast-moving events.

Both are shown to perform robustly without ad hoc time-step restrictions.

Next we discuss how both of these issues can be addressed in practice, the first by defining a form of mutual information that is naturally continuous and therefore does not require an ad hoc discretisation step and the other addresses the case where, in a naturally discrete system numerical artefacts resulting in divergences can be avoided.

Therefore, we added an ad hoc post-calling filtering step with a somatic score cut-off of 20.

This approach typically involves a number of ad hoc labor-intensive steps to convert file formats and create transitional file types.

While initially performed ad hoc, over time these steps have been formalized into a checklist that is incorporated into the pipeline.

Furthermore, the equalization and channel estimation in [27] are done in a two-step ad hoc approach which is not a true EM (see Appendix A) and exhibits degraded performance in our simulations.