No description, experiment, explanation, hypothesis, idea, instrument, machine, method, model, prediction, statement, technique, test or theory should be more elaborate than necessary to satisfy its purpose.
Due to practical constraints of creating a parallel-form measure we did not test reliability by comparing the final checklist statements generated using the Delphi technique with statements generated by another method of developing the tool – for example via focus groups or consensus meetings with experts [ 12].
The statement-and-answer technique in which the guitar mimics the just-completed vocal line is related to the two-bar or four-bar 'tradeoffs' found in jazz.
Exxon Mobil, whose pledge of $100 million makes it the biggest of the four contributors, issued a statement saying new techniques for producing energy while reducing emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases were "vital to meeting energy needs in the industrialized and developing world".
For simplicity, in this paper, we regard the if-statement and loop-statement as a whole statement, although sophisticated techniques such as loop fossil can make fine-grained dependency tracking [39, 42].
Read cynically, Spacey's statement was a misdirection technique worthy of Frank Underwood, designed to supplant Rapp's allegation with his own coming out — the type of celebrity revelation that the media is used to celebrating.
One of them, and perhaps the best known, Images à la sauvette, contains what is probably Cartier-Bresson's most comprehensive and important statement on the meaning, technique, and utility of photography.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 — All 10 Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee pressed Michael B. Mukasey, President Bush's nominee for attorney general, on Tuesday for a clear-cut statement that the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, which simulates drowning and has been used by the C.I.A. against terrorism suspects, is illegal.
On Tuesday, the committee's 10 Democrats sent a separate letter to Mr. Mukasey that pressed him to make a clear-cut statement that the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, which simulates drowning and has been used by the Central Intelligence Agency against terrorist suspects, is illegal.
The discussions have begun, with one ethics body, the Hinxton Group, weighing in earlier this month with a consensus statement that said the technique should be allowed to proceed if used for basic research.
The Shanghai Group, a group of experts comprising members of the World Gastroenterology Organisation, International Organisation for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, European Society of Coloproctology, and Robarts Clinical Trials, stated in 2014 that US must be supplemented with MRI in many cases and that they consider MRI the gold standard imaging technique [13]: Statement 8.1.
