Sentence examples for curious criterion from inspiring English sources

This curious criterion governs historical criticism of Gospel texts: the more improbable or "difficult" an episode or remark is, the likelier it is to be a true record, on the assumption that you would edit out all the weird stuff if you could, and keep it in only because the tradition is so strong that it can't plausibly be excluded.

In his inanity, Harriott perfectly fulfils the curious criteria of the late 90s TV entertainer.

The club is nominally private, though I found showing up hungry, curious and cheerful to be sufficient criteria for entrance.

The prospect of indigenous people applying strict criteria of race seems a curious inversion, or even reversion to a time when master races had done the nose measuring.

The curious case of the knotted ribbon, the opaque qualification criteria, the home nation places and the weeping teenage gymnasts reached an independent tribunal in London on Wednesday.

Taken together, these authentically curious leadership practices and being explicit about assumptions and criteria are powerful tools to plan, measure and monitor the environment to create improved results.

A more general finding from that work was that autistic traits were significantly raised in ADHD participants, a curious result given that a diagnosis of clinical autism was an exclusion criterion for participation in the study.

Blacks applauded Dr. Roussell's reforms, which set out clear-cut criteria for placement where before there was, they said, a curious subjectivity that dumped nearly all black students in lower tracks.

The criteria that patients should be free of any signs or symptoms is curious as it has been well documented that the symptoms associated with acute bronchiolitis persists for many days or even weeks [ 73, 84].

Although I am not aware of the BoP's criteria for sending people here (due to their refusal to release specific CMU information), it is curious who is and who is not here.

This was because the second factor's Eigenvalue had been very close to one and we were curious to know whether information might have been concealed by the single common factor model and the Eigenvalue > 1 criterion.