And they had certain criteria to do it.

We knew it had to be these three things that the machine had to have.

The ECB s use of OMT satisfies both criteria.

While governments might offer attractive liquidity facilities, banks will be unable to on lend the funds.

Adaptation of the EU's economic criteria should focus on the following areas

At first, NATO s new members were declared to have met both democratic and military criteria.

The Court ultimately held that Russian law does not meet the 'quality of law' requirement.

Having satisfied the Maastricht criteria, fiscal policies have been geared to putting on brakes.

The Nobel Prize winning global scientific process called the Inter Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has set the gold standard for scientific rigor in analyzing the threats of human induced climate change.

On the contrary, the Commission continues to insist that the political and economic criteria must be strictly adhered to.

(The WHO has never explained why these obvious examples do not meet their criteria.)

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

The government demands that Web sites, television programs, and other media meet three general criteria

It must first fulfill the clear political criteria defined by the EU in Copenhagen ten years ago.

According to almost every economic and financial criterion, the SDR basket should now include China's renminbi.

Each blog is entered into the database according to a variety of criteria from topic to country of origin to language.

Like Greece, Italy was admitted to the euro zone despite being light years away from meeting all the criteria.

It took it upon itself not only to meet EU membership criteria, but also push forward with other painful reforms.

To qualify, tiger conservation areas must meet a set of 17 standards. Chitwan National Park met them all, and is considered a well managed, protected and effective refuge for tigers.

First, energy strategy must satisfy three objectives low cost, diverse supply, and drastically reduced carbon dioxide emissions. This will require massive investments in new technologies and resources, not a fight to the finish over Middle East oil.

Nor is it realistic to believe that Russia will come close anytime soon to meeting the EU's Maastricht criteria for macroeconomic performance. Russia's fiscal balance has improved dramatically over the last two years, but the rapid economic growth and moderate currency depreciation that Russia needs to catch up with Europe will keep inflation higher than the Maastricht ceiling.

Even more recently, scientists at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego have shown that according to all essential definitional criteria, fruit flies sleep at night.

First, energy strategy must satisfy three objectives low cost, diverse supply, and drastically reduced carbon dioxide emissions.

Nor is it realistic to believe that Russia will come close anytime soon to meeting the EU's Maastricht criteria for macroeconomic performance.

Facebook says it doesn t handpick the services on Free Basics anymore, and now admits any service or website that meets its criteria.

The government's tools for enforcing these criteria are far more effective than most observers realize. First, it can imprison those who violate its media policy.

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

Climate change, for example, poses dire threats to the planet that must be assessed according to prevailing scientific norms and the evolving capacity of climate science.

It must be added that the average size of each project small by banks' conventional standards makes incentive mechanisms necessary.

The rescission of Cuba s designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism reflects our assessment that Cuba meets the statutory criteria for rescission.

We measured Free Basics against collectively developed benchmarks of usability, quality of connection, language and accessibility, content, and privacy data policies.

The revulsion provoked by the murder of innocents is deeply felt by all, and it is reprehensible by any standard, religious or not.

All members would, in principle, be eligible, but premium rates would be differentiated and established on the basis of quantitative criteria.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan s newly elected government had embarked on a series of ambitious reforms to meet the European Union s political criteria for membership.

Should this continue, perhaps bringing a de facto end to the Maastricht criteria and rising national protectionism in the form of industrial subsidies, the euro will be seriously jeopardized.

A December 2004 summit, to take place under a Dutch chairmanship, is to see the EU review Turkey's progress and decide, provided the criteria are met, on whether to start negotiations without delay.

Because this establishes the two primary criteria for the political creature that you have influence in a large sphere, and that my preservation depends on you.

Indeed, before joining the monetary union, the new member countries will need to make more progress toward the convergence criteria for interest rates, inflation, and public finances.

In order to ensure this, policymakers must give priority to the efficiency criterion and bear in mind the environmental costs of both land and sea transport.

Putin fits the desired mould for a firmness and stolidity that ensures stability, a strong state, and a golden middle between radical reforms and strong arm rule.

Most new airliners and other planes that have been modified so that passengers can use Wifi at higher altitudes are expected to meet the criteria.

In this year s rankings, we determined a country s competitiveness (the capacity to grow) according to three broad criteria (1) technology (2) public institutions and (3) macroeconomic stability.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan s newly elected government had embarked on a series of ambitious reforms to meet the European Union s political criteria for membership.

While protecting health is a legitimate government purpose, criminalizing drug use to protect people from harming themselves does not meet the criteria of necessity or proportionality.

But suppose we try to define the attacks of September 11, 2001, as terrorism by using the following formula a violent, organized, and public attack by private parties on other civilians, without guilt, regardless of the justice of the cause.