During all these years, European governments consistently confirmed Turkey's eligibility for full membership, making accession dependent on compliance with membership criteria.

7. Also stresses the importance of continued flexibility with regard to the eligibility criteria for the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative, in particular for countries in post conflict situations

Criteria for these choices were simple

It was his first year of eligibility.

Children are given intelligence tests to determine eligibility for admission to school programs for the gifted.

The World Bank and regional development banks should be encouraged to incorporate gender equality criteria into their eligibility criteria for loans and credit to emerging market governments and private sector corporations. Such a clear economic link would help to motivate local policymakers to take strong action, while helping to bolster public support for policies promoting gender equality.

5. Also requests the Secretary General to present a detailed road map on the implementation of the proposed contractual arrangements, including on eligibility criteria, at the second part of its resumed sixty first session

The parties also agreed to work together on modifying national identity, eligibility for citizenship, and land tenure laws.

For the plan s opponents, the main causes of indignation are the criteria for assessment.

Four criteria seem to be essential

Our criteria belong to the past.

They are worried by the talk of pension reform, changes in the health system, and new eligibility rules for unemployment benefits.

But there must be no softening of the criteria for joining the euro.

It will heighten the difficulty of meeting the convergence criteria for euro adoption.

Coe said he was also pleased that Russia accepted the criteria for its reintroduction.

Overly strict qualification criteria are likely to deter members that may need this kind of support most from applying for it but overly loose criteria may stigmatize potential users.

Unambiguous, impartial criteria for selecting a winner were not at hand and never will be.

The government's tools for enforcing these criteria are far more effective than most observers realize.

But here there was no sheep like criteria.

And they had certain criteria to do it.

The ECB s use of OMT satisfies both criteria.

These cases have major implications for blood safety everywhere, implying additional restrictions on eligibility for blood donation and on the processing and handling of blood and blood products.

So the AU should set criteria and create a surveillance system for democratic elections across Africa.

Establish ground rules and deal breakers and stick to the criteria that we set for ourselves.

Delegates at the 2012 U.N. biodiversity talks agreed that the Sargasso meets the criteria for protection.

The simplest solution is to mandate that the government buy less health care by raising the eligibility age for Medicare, capping benefits for high income beneficiaries, and so on.

The ICD code also frames eligibility for related social goods like hospital care, medical retirement, claims for disability compensation, hospice care, and home health care, to name a few.

The advantages of this hybrid status include the security and predictability of America s rule of law, eligibility for federal transfer payments, and favorable tax treatment.

Instead, the EU emphasized the technical criteria of membership.

It would not be difficult to develop objective criteria for access to an EU Sanctions Compensation Fund.

For Japan nowadays, security policy must satisfy a trinity of criteria national interests, alliance, and international cooperation.

The new guideline, issued by the Supreme People's Court, defines the criteria for convicting and sentencing offenders.

Yet one can easily see the problems who judges the eligibility of candidates and how are such judgements enforced?

So they have all the criteria that people normally like.

The criteria for receiving aid may be sending children to school regularly or taking them to a doctor.

Different languages, however, have different criteria for when two type expressions are understood to denote the same type.

An effective strategy needs to establish realistic objectives and criteria for evaluating success or failure, and these criteria must focus on reducing the death, disease, crime and suffering associated with both drug use and drug policies.

There seem to be two particularly important criteria for great leadership, both noted by the political philosopher Isaiah Berlin.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock is responsible for creating a list of potential beneficiaries who meet specific criteria.

Ulemas (religious scholars) are useless for believers who must search for purely religious criteria that are no longer linked to a given culture.

To make this body viable, realistic criteria must underpin its design.

For the first time since communism's collapse, Russia can formulate its own long term development path one with defined criteria for appraising policy decisions.

The standard for admission should not be a country's mere existence, but its fulfillment of certain criteria of democratic governance.

(b) The establishment, in advance, of conditions for participation, including selection and award criteria and tendering rules, and their publication

(g) Further develop and implement criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management that are consistent with national priorities and conditions