Sentence examples for term for measures from inspiring English sources

Supporters of same-sex marriage, who filed several suits challenging the proposition after its adoption, argued that the change to the state's Constitution was so fundamental that the initiative was not an amendment at all but instead a "revision," a term for measures that rework core constitutional principles.

In fact, they are so scattered that the "egression coefficient"{the statisticians' term for measuring how well the scatter fits the regression line} is just 0.12.

Interaction terms for measures of obesity and sex were not significant in any of the models.

We combined terms for measures of accuracy AND terms for communicating and interpreting AND terms for health professionals (see web appendix 1).

The Hebrew title refers both to the musical term for bar (or measure) as well as, in certain biblical readings, to Noah's ark and the reed basket that carried the infant Moses down the Nile.

"Reparations" is the term for the measures states are obliged to take to help victims overcome their ordeals, and they include both what we traditionally think of as "justice" (that is, investigations and court cases) as well as guarantees of non-repetition, compensation for the abuse, and rehabilitation.

A qualifying term for a measure: "add a strong pint" means fill the pint to the top.

If this is the technical term for bee-measures, then I apologise to science, but Ultimate Swarms was on after 9pm, and I felt as if it had, for a second – sorry, a waggle – wandered over from CBBC.

Correction: December 10 , 2003 Wednesday An article on Friday about an effort to create a new accountability system in New York City's public schools misstated part of the federal term for the measure of a school's performance on reading and math tests.

If Sarah Palin had never run for vice president of the United States, if she had instead finished her term as governor (or served a second term for good measure) and then gone into TV and talked about huntin' and fishin' and Alaska and tips for cooking up the perfect moose chili and maintaining volume on bad hair days, she wouldn't be Sarah Palin, Divisive Politician Who Also Does TV.

Structural equation models (SEM) include an error term for each measured exposure and outcome, and can be used to model the association between the true exposure and the true outcome.