He maintained that the commission faithfully carried out Iraq's de-Baathification laws, eliminating candidates who were on the commission's databases of former members of the party, or Iraq's security forces.
The conservative-controlled political establishment has played safe by eliminating candidates who could have created an unpredictable situation.
Further speed-up of k-means could be obtained by using the activity-based approach jointly with kd-tree [22], or by exploiting the activity information together with triangular inequality rule for eliminating candidates in the nearest neighbor search [23].
Within the next few weeks the country's constitutional watchdog, the Guardian Council, will impose its authoritarian whip by eliminating candidates who are seen to be outside the accepted political discourse.
Republican voters are focused on eliminating candidates rather than finding ones they like.
We felt that this was really important because we had all been part of searches that spent too much time discussing eliminating candidates with impressive resumes and inadequate time getting to know the people with the right qualities well.
There are 305 681 candidates above the average optimal cutoff for the A. darlingi dataset, which can be reduced to 248 970 by eliminating candidates overlapped by candidates with higher scores.
Yameen won a controversial runoff with the help of Qasim Ibrahim, a business tycoon and eliminated candidate in the first-round vote who has since become a Nasheed ally.
