Nicolai did note that some landscape elements, like two small meadows and a reflecting pool, also serve as discreet security measures, and he called them "an eye-opening expression of the irresolvable tensions involved in trying to design an emblem of American values when you know it may become the next terrorist target".
Quality assessment using discreet performance measures is rapidly expanding in clinical practice.
"The capabilities [of the NSA] are applied and very discreet and measured in controlled ways, so the unconstrained disclosure of those capabilities means that as adversaries see them, and recognize, 'Hey, I might be vulnerable to this,' they move away from that..
The king's rather cynical words were: "The mayor must take the utmost care in introducing the Spanish language, using the most discreet and temperate measures, so that only the effects are felt, and not the measures".
Seldom in the spotlight, He maneuvers behind the scenes as a measured, discreet and skillful problem-solver with a knack for navigating bureaucracy.
In particular, neighboring South Africa, which has been measured and often discreet in its comments on events in Zimbabwe, made its displeasure very public in this case, urged on by big South African companies with operations here.
In front of the press the president announced a series of economic and social measures while remaining very discreet about his personal situation that he will clarify later".
However, more appropriate distance measures accounting for the discreet, Poisson-distributed structure of SAGE data have been shown to produce better clustering results than those achieved with conventional Euclidian or Pearson similarity measures routinely used in microarray data clustering [12].
Lastly, some HCWs may have been aware that we were being observed despite measures taken to be discreet, and so this may have resulted in a relatively high level of hand washing compliance found.
