Sentence examples for extraneous measures from inspiring English sources

"It's going to have a number of extraneous measures in it that have nothing to do with defense, which is making it needlessly controversial," Mr. McConnell said.

Tying extraneous measures like abortion and funding for environmental protection to the basic spending bill may energize the conservative base while turning off swing voters, they say.

Mr. Reid said in an interview in his office on Friday that Mr. Boehner came to him at the end of July with a proposition: If Senate Democratic leaders could accept a stopgap spending measure in the fall at levels that reflected across-the-board spending cuts, the speaker would refrain from adding extraneous measures that could precipitate a clash.

-- that bars Congress from adding "extraneous" measures to budget reconciliation bills.

Because small changes in spirometry in healthy young adults may result from exercise, diurnal, or other effects in addition to the effects of O3 during the course of an exposure, we use the term "O3-induced" here to designate effects that we have corrected for such extraneous responses as measured during filtered air (FA) exposures.

To measure the extraneous cognitive load experienced by learners, participants completed a 7-point Likert style survey on their subjective perceptions of task difficulty [43].

The lack of valid methods to measure intrinsic, extraneous and germane cognitive load makes it difficult to empirically test theoretical explanations of effects caused by manipulations of instructional designs.

Teeth and well-preserved bone pieces were handled under stringent precautionary measures to prevent extraneous contaminations.

More elaborate scores incorporate quality measures based on extraneous data such as gene expression, co-occurrence in the same cellular pathways, paralogy relationships and domain composition (25, 42).

The final step involves reflection and refinement to ensure that all of the objectives are measured and that extraneous scoring criteria have been eliminated.

Indeed in many cases according to Zumbo (1999), because of the fact that the test items contain sources of difficulty that are extraneous or irrelevant to the measured construct, the items in a test are biased.