Sentence examples for strict ranking from inspiring English sources

But rather than tying promotions to a strict ranking of test scores, which can work against non-white candidates, the department divides the results into different bands, some as wide as 12 points.

Merit-based admission has led to strict ranking among the schools and severely intensified competition, which has contributed to a number of problems notably bullying and other violence and absenteeism that have beset the Japanese educational system for years.

In a strict ranking by ridership versus APTA's 1st Quarter 2008 Light Rail Agency Statistics as shown in Table 2, both Pelz' and OKI's predictions rank fairly well.

For years, the department has adhered to a strict ranking system to prioritize calls for service: A commercial robbery in progress or a sexual assault is a higher priority than, say, a home burglary that has already occurred.

Prosecutor Patrick Hill has previously alleged that Salerno authored a 51-page "bible" for the cult, that he prompted his followers to frequently utter the words "praise Taipan", and that he established a strict ranking system where members of the group were classed according to their "emotional quotient", The Advertiser reported.

"Some men like Jack/ and some like Jill; / I'm glad I like them both; but still…/ In the strict ranks/ of Gay and Straight/ What is my status?/ Stray? or Great?" When Vikram Seth wrote "Dubious" many years ago, he may not have realized how long his poem would live.

Frequent social conflicts among goats due to their strict rank relationships can pose problems in loose housing of goats by negatively influencing feeding and resting times of low-ranking group members.

Based on the cost-distance analysis method, we constructed a three-rank (basic, moderate and strict-rank) composite ESP of Gaoming (Guangdong, China) aiming at protecting the survivals and habitat securities of rare vegetations, wild animals and human beings.

Our results show that under the basic, moderate, and strict- rank ESPs, the integration and connectivity of the ecological components are constantly improved, but the connectivity between neighboring urban patches decline gradually.

Initially pursuing a career producing live-action TV, Simon eventually realized that animation was his true calling, and upon graduating, entered the strict hierarchical ranks of the professional animation industry.

The absolute number of detected matches with a template sequence depends on the number of neurons in the template, the parameters that transform spike patterns to sequences, and how strict the rank-order correlation criterion is.