Sentence examples for secular criteria from inspiring English sources

Taking the second criterion first, it is clear that Chapter 2 aid "is allocated on the basis of neutral, secular criteria that neither favor nor disfavor religion, and is made available to both religious and secular beneficiaries on a nondiscriminatory basis".

Within the framework of traditional values, socially ambitious castes have also been known, when possible, to supplement the criterion of ritual purity by the secular criteria of numerical strength, economic well-being (notably in the form of land ownership), and the ability to mobilize physical force to emerge as the wielders of power in village affairs and in local politics.

There have been secular trends in diagnostic criteria and screening intensity for diabetes (7); for example, diabetes is diagnosed earlier as a result of a 1997 change by the American Diabetes Association in the fasting blood glucose level from 140 to 126 mg/dL.

Differences in sociodemographics, behavior, genetics, vaginal flora, co-infections, secular time, and delivery inclusion/exclusion criteria (gestational age cutoff, elective caesarean sections and twins), undoubtedly result in confounding, which could attenuate observed associations with PTB.

As our data-set of trials spans four decades, secular changes in standard of care of hypertension is to be expected and is reflected in changes in trial design and in relation to inclusion and exclusion criteria of risk populations.

This property allows to apply a convenient hyperbolicity criterion that has become known as the "secular equation" [J. Anderson, A secular equation for the eigenvalues of a diagonal matrix perturbation, Lin. Alg. Appl. 246 (1996 49 70]].

These results were countered by an 18% decrease in maximum acceptable forces for the criterion magnetic particle brake treadmill task, perhaps due to secular changes in the industrial population.

Surveying 295 social service agency directors, he found 23percentt of the faith-based organizations had tightened eligibility criteria for their services -- far more than the 8.7percentt of their secular counterparts.

In his view, the definition of Jewishness according to religious criteria is a chief cause of division; because the newcomers tend to be secular, it only alienates them further.

This result is basically unaltered if we control for secular labor market trends, stratify our analysis by severity of disease or alter the inclusion criteria from being based on age to pre-diagnosis employment status.

Hence, the non-participating practices do not fulfil the criteria for a control group and can not readily be used to estimate the secular trend of patient numbers for the four participating practices.