Sentence examples for agreed-upon methods from inspiring English sources

When the committees were first formed, there wasn't a postdoc association with specific goals, plans for action, timetables, or agreed-upon methods; the proto-PDA consisted of informal groups of postdocs interested in making things better for themselves and their peers.

I believe that these questions are unlikely to be answered by the internationally agreed-upon methods for C. diphtheriae typing because of their insufficient resolution: the discriminatory power of MLST does not exceed to that of ribotyping (5 ).

But the system is flawed, said Ian Smillie, a Canadian campaigner, because it does not include an agreed-upon method of monitoring the way individual nations comply.

Even if liability is established, calculating damages is not easy because there will probably not be an agreed-upon method of valuing fund shares and adjusting for one investor's market timing, Mr. Dunbar said.

Consensus — the agreed-upon method of decision-making — wasn't easy among hundreds of self-identified ninety-nine-per-centers, whose politics ranged from "Daily Show" liberalism to insurrectionary anarchism.

The problem, of course, is there's no agreed-upon method for agreeing on what defines traction — depending on the startup or the investor, it may be different, or it may be one of those cases of "you know it when you see it".

There are no response protocols, no strategies for remediation and not even an agreed-upon method of detecting the presence of the toxin in effect.

Further assume that the quasi-sacred document your society bases all laws off of has a bit in it about "cruel and unusual punishment" that the authors probably intended something specific by, but that today is largely incomprehensible so much so that the current agreed-upon method for executing someone is to pump him full of extraordinarily expensive chemicals until he expires.

Unidimensionality is not an absolute but a relative matter and there is no single agreed-upon method to test unidimensionality.

Although the definition of persistency is now generally agreed upon, methods of estimation still vary.

At present, there are no agreed upon methods of qualitative research synthesis, and debate in this area has continued for some time [ 60, 63].