Sentence examples for series of grades from inspiring English sources

Aikido practitioners (commonly called aikidōka outside of Japan) generally progress by promotion through a series of "grades" (kyū), followed by a series of "degrees" (dan), pursuant to formal testing procedures.

This lengthy series of grades is a multi-dimensional measure of social position, which, like other occupational classifications, will capture aspects of social status, wages and autonomy (CFDT, 2013; Marmot & Shipley, 1996).

Using rare variant carrier frequencies of 0.0045, 0.0018, 0.00021*, 0.00011*, 0.00090 and 0.0027 for the rMS grades C15, C25, C35*, C55*, C65 and T+SJV, respectively, as well as ORs of 1.82, 2.47, 3.74*, 7.24*, 8.75 and 6.18 for the same series of grades, we estimated the number of participants required for a reasonably powered many-gene case-control mutation-screening study.

The method involves stratifying rare missense substitutions observed in cases and/or controls into a series of grades ordered a priori from least to most likely to be evolutionarily deleterious, followed by a logistic regression test for trends to compare the frequency distributions of the graded missense substitutions in cases versus controls.

The star, Jia Hongsheng, had earned fame in the early 90's in a series of grade B gangster films.

That power is all too obvious a few miles downstream at the Bujagali Falls and its series of grade-five rapids (grade six rapids are deemed unrunnable).

Balance exercises consisted of repetition of a series of graded tasks specific to functional balance with targets of distance and time to provide feedback.

For persons participating in athletics, the 2008 Zurich Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport recommends that participants be symptom free before restarting and then progress through a series of graded steps.

Burhans Boulevard was named for Winslow F. Burhans, the mayor of Hagerstown from 1953 to 1965 who was instrumental in elevating the tracks of the Western Maryland Railway on the west side of downtown Hagerstown to eliminate a series of grade crossings.

After deparaffinization in xylene and rehydration in a series of grade-decreasing ethanol solutions, the slides were washed in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS).

Of the series of grade 3 infiltrating carcinomas, 31 went on to develop 41 brain metastasis.