MPs must either accept this great bundle of unrelated measures in its entirety or reject it in its entirety.
Analyses of databases coding Supreme Court decisions and justices' votes along these lines, one going back to 1953 and another to 1937, show that the Roberts court has staked out territory to the right of the two conservative courts that immediately preceded it by four distinct measures: In its first five years, the Roberts court issued conservative decisions 58 percent of the time.
The company is forming a global advisory council to help it develop policies, standards and measures in its effort to combat obesity.
The national stroke audit took a step in the right direction back in 2001, when it began to include AHPs measures in its stroke care statistics.
When it received a 78bn euro bailout two years ago, it pledged to take various measures in its budget to reduce public spending.
The authority said it was one of the measures in its budget plan to help save £30m in the next financial year and £77m by 2018.
Instead of abolishing NCLB, the Obama administration has instituted even more punitive measures in its Race to the Top program, as it moves the accountability for tests scores down from the state to the individual teachers.
Ultimately, the test of any statistical measure is how well it performs relative to other measures in its ability to produce a biologically meaningful and relevant result.
Yes, this is the N.B.A.'s reaction to the Heat's loading up with James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh and the owners' antipathy to the Lakers' various dynasties, but it has now gone to absurd measures in its revolt against superteams, which happens to be the entire operating principle of Major League Baseball.
