Sentence examples for purposes counting from inspiring English sources

The primary outcome measure was the monthly nosocomial MRSA isolation rate, defined as the number of MRSA clinical isolates (those from specimens collected other than for screening purposes, counting one isolate per patient per month), per 100 susceptible patients (not previously known to be MRSA colonised or infected).

Or they can borrow funds the interest is deductible to invest in preference shares, receiving a fixed income stream that for tax purposes counts as a dividend from equity investments, and is thus virtually tax exempt.

Article XV gives women, who were for tax purposes counted as part of a male-headed household, the right to ask public officials about the finances of the household, and Article XVII extends property rights to women regardless of their marital status.

Article 15 gives women, who were for tax purposes counted as part of a male-headed household, the right to ask public officials about the finances of the household, and Article 17 extends property rights to women regardless of their marital status.

They put up with slavery, allowed only white male property owners to vote and, for Census purposes, counted slaves as three-fifths of a person.

Now he is turning his prodigious organisational skills to a different purpose: counting Chicagoans.Census workers are scheduled to finish their work in Chicago on July 7th.

Mr. Pai, moistening the tip of his finger in a small bowl filled with water which he kept on his desk just for this purpose, counted the notes afresh.

Maybe the glossy magazines are trying, in their own way, to return us to a world where a Little Women sense of moral purpose counts for more than the flat-screen TV.

A second limitation concerns a possible subregister of immigrant patients, basically of children born in Spain who, to all intents and purposes, count as Spaniards; what matters in our analysis is behaviour relating to the socioeconomic and cultural position of the family and, in this sense, these children are immigrants.

This is the standard by which investors will be grouped together for purposes of counting whether the pill has been triggered.

The word "Exchequer" derives from the chequered cloth laid on a table for the purposes of counting money.