Sentence examples for tight criterion from inspiring English sources

Many studies acknowledge the resilience to societal pressures to quit as a characteristic of 'hard-coreness', but set a less tight criterion (i.e., included smokers who smoked daily for only the past five years).

Ninety percent of our funding is tied to restrictive projects with very tight criteria.

Under current rules, those without children whose applications are refused – and who don't fit the tight criteria for section 4 support – become destitute.

"Banks clamped down on interest-only borrowing as a knee-jerk reaction to lax lending practices, but we are now starting to see some relaxing of overly tight criteria," he says.

The European Commission, announcing its decision on Thursday, took issue with Britain's tight criteria for residency benefits, which differ from a Europe-wide standard meant to ensure support for any citizen of a European Union country who lives in another member country.

We set tight criteria, so after two years, we have only fully approved two projects.

The cry for more research should not be allowed to hold up our recommendations... sales/use of AFA should be strictly controlled via tight criteria, despite not knowing mechanisms of action, nor foreseeing all effects.

Nevertheless, we tried to overcome these limitations by comparing a relative uniform high-volume, matched by tight criteria for classifying radiological change such as progressive radiolucency in zone 4 [ 28].

To compare all studies the number of cats that either ceased or reduced spraying by at least 90% was used as a primary outcome measure as it described the tightest criterion for success among studies.

Even when tighter criteria narrowed the six-month prediction to just 19 patients, half outlived the prediction.

The test has much tighter criteria, making it more difficult to be judged eligible for employment support allowance, the new benefit.