Sentence examples for degrading measures from inspiring English sources

A 2014 report by Dignity, the Danish Institute Against Torture, on Conditions for Women in Detention in Jordan described how some women have resorted to "extreme and degrading measures, such as marrying men who have raped them in order to be released".

Desperate people resort to desperate and degrading measures to survive, including forcing young children and adolescents into abusive labour.

Supporter association "Der Nordwestkurven-Rat" castigated "the degrading measure of the highest order".

The presence of underfitting items in instruments may have a potentially significant impact by severely degrading the measures, whereas overfitting items will tend to overestimate differences in raw scores [ 11].

The phenomenon does not occur in linear systems, where the addition of noise to either the system or the stimulus only degrades the measures of signal quality.

For instance, in studies of human postmortem brain tissue, a major problem is that the RNA samples are often severely and variably degraded, as measured by the RNA integrity number (RIN) [ 69].

This chapter examines the chemical conditions under which metals degrade and the measures that can be taken to minimize or protect against deterioration.

About 50 years ago, Alabama was enforcing similar laws, and we should have learned then that these measures degrade our nation's values.

As expected, the performance measures degrade with the evolutionary distance between the target and reference genomes.

A preliminary test in which eight plant biomass degrading enzymes were measured at day two, three and four of cultivation, demonstrated that at day three activities were maximal for all fungi (data not shown).

The spikes from each corresponding group of neurons were put into 10 ms bins, and those bins containing less than ten spikes were excluded to prevent quiescent periods from degrading the performance measure (Miconi and VanRullen 2010).