Sentence examples for stiff criteria from inspiring English sources

When federal rules defining how foods -- and restaurants -- could be certified as organic were adopted in October, only two restaurants met the stiff criteria: Nora's, in Washington, and the Ukiah Brewing Company, in Ukiah, Calif.

As elsewhere in the arts of the noughties, there has also been a pragmatic factor driving the current changes – public arts funding, and the contradictions between its tempting resources over the last decade and its sometimes stiff criteria.

Many, though, were part of their sports' elite group and satisfied the stiff criteria set down by Commonwealth Games Scotland.

But experts now credit her work with breaking free of the stiff academic criteria of the era, spurring a new field of expression.

A longer wait and stiffer entry criteria would have been wiser.No time for tribalismNone of this is an excuse for failing to act or stifling criticism.

Russian officials hope to send more rich folk into space to help finance the country's space activities, but any future guests will need to meet stiffer selection and training criteria, to be promulgated by the partner nations by June.

The for-profit educational lobby argues that, in fact, the criteria are too stiff and would hobble the industry because so many of its students depend on loans to attend.

Fatigue life is observed to be governing design criteria for OWT at stiff clay.

The exclusion criteria were an arthritic stiff elbow, articular incongruence, steroid therapy in the previous two months, burns, connectivopathy or immunologic disease, diabetes, or alterations in blood coagulation.

▸ A confirmed diagnosis of acute neck pain caused by stiff neck according to the diagnostic criteria and referring to the Diagnostic efficacy of standard traditional Chinese medicine syndrome.

Furthermore, we found that patients whose meningitis was caused by common bacteria, such as S. pneumoniae or H. influenzae, sometimes met the case definition but did not meet the criteria for meningoencephalitis (pleocytosis and stiff neck).