Sentence examples for the formula for deciding from inspiring English sources

The formula for deciding whether a charity is effective is straightforward: how much of an improvement do you make in how many people's lives, for how much money?

According to the federal Department of Homeland Security, the formula for deciding which cities were eligible this year also included how close they were to an international border and what type of law enforcement investigations were under way there.

The Court ruled that this rule was unconstitutional because the formula for deciding which states it applied to had not been updated since the 1960's.

For many years the basic formula for deciding who would win the Most Valuable Player award came down to the triple crown statistics — batting average, home run and runs batted in — and the record of the player's team.

While everybody remembers South Africa miscalculating the Duckworth-Lewis formula for deciding rain-shortened matches in the decisive match, its real failure was losing to both West Indies and New Zealand in earlier contests.

Senator Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, asked Mr. Rumsfeld whether the Pentagon had a formula for deciding when the effectiveness of a new weapons system justified its high cost.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in a unanimous ruling by the three-judge panel, said the trustee's central formula for deciding how to recoup and redistribute the money that had moved through Madoff's vast Ponzi scheme was appropriate.

There's no formula for deciding the best one; if you like one better than the others, go with it!

In his opinion for the unanimous court, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. seems to minimize the scope of the ruling by avoiding "a rigid formula for deciding when an employee qualifies as a minister" and by not saying how the exception would apply in other circumstances.

Unfortunately for Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz, the owners of the Mets, Burton R. Lifland, the federal bankruptcy judge overseeing the unwinding of Madoff's scheme, has supported an alternative formula for deciding how much money investors lost and gained: the difference between the money investors gave Madoff and how much they withdrew, often over many years of supposedly lucrative investing.

The editor, Darrell A. Buono, says there is a "proven formula" for deciding what range means what.