Most significantly, they focus primarily on questions about RECs' structure and process, such as how committees are constituted, whether their standard operating procedures are complete, and whether the process of protocol review is adequately documented [ 31].
The issue, as the papers almost surreptitiously stated in the news columns, was the towboat unions refusal to let management decide what constituted featherbedding-whether or not it would be a good idea to cut the present stardard crew of five..
It's far easier to attack "them" than examine the deceit, delusions and cultural certainties that constitute "us" – whether by acknowledging the depredations of the British empire or exposing its legacy of structural racism.
If you induce a pay-off by threatening to expose disgraceful, embarrassing secrets about someone, that can constitute extortion whether or not the ugly details are true.
The frameworks we have presented provide an outline of the multi-level and multi-stakeholder relationships that constitute organisations, whether fast food chains, nuclear power plants or other entities.
The Police Department's hate crimes unit is investigating whether the threats took place, whether they would constitute aggravated harassment, and whether they qualify as bias crimes, which carry tougher penalties, a spokesman for the department said.
As with the appeal to grounding, a central question about such strategies is whether they constitute genuine explanatory progress, or whether they simply explain one necessity by appealing to some further brute necessity.
Intelligence tests have provoked a great deal of controversy about what kinds of mental abilities constitute intelligence and whether the IQ adequately represents these abilities, with debate centring on cultural bias in test construction and standardization procedures.
Stardust and empty space are what constitute our world, whether material or human.
Bucklew v. Precythe asks whether the Eighth Amendment, which bans cruel and unusual punishment, grants death row inmates the right to prove that a certain execution method would constitute torture, and whether an inmate should be required to present an alternative method.
