Sentence examples for minimum body mass from inspiring English sources

The legislation will attempt to impose an as-yet-unspecified minimum body mass index (BMI) for models employed by agencies, who will be under threat of prison and a fine for flouting the law.

Coinciding with London fashion week, which will run from 16-20 Septheber, the initiative will call for an end to unrealistically small "sample sizes" – the sizes in which designers show their new creations – and demand a minimum body mass index (BMI) for models.

The minimum body mass index will be raised to 19 (20.5 with equipment) and, for most jumpers, the maximum ski length will be shortened to 143 percent of a jumper's height, said Walter Hofer, race director for the International Ski Federation.

A previous version of the bill suggested setting a minimum Body Mass Index (BMI) — a value derived from an individual's weight and height — to ensure that models do not fall below acceptable weight standards.

Culmen and tarsus were measured no earlier than 90 days after hatch, and minimum body mass after six months of age was used as a third measure of body size.

Patients in the BED group were also older and showed a significantly higher current, maximum and minimum Body Mass Index (BMI), developed their disorder at a later age of onset and suffered from it longer than the other two groups.

Weight is so important, in fact, that minimum body-mass-index levels had to be imposed in the men's division order to fight pervasive eating disorders.

The law – an amendment to a much wider health bill – abandons an earlier proposal that all models working in France should satisfy a minimum body-mass requirement (a measure  based on height and weight).

In 2008, a team of scientists led by S. Wroe conducted an experiment to determine the bite force of the great white shark, using a 2.4 m long specimen, and then isometrically scaling the results for its maximum confirmed size and the conservative minimum and maximum body mass of C. megalodon, placing the bite force of the latter between 108514 N and 182201 N in a posterior bite.

So the external body form will be the one that assures a minimum cross section and hence a minimum friction per body mass; and at the same time also reduces the vulnerable body surface.

MW = Minimum Wages; BMI: Body Mass Index; There were 35 women currently pregnant in the sample and 19 that were at the menopause (15 of them had a surgical menopause due to hysterectomy).