The standard required for acceptance onto a course might be one A-level or a vocational equivalent.

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Many state courts use the looser standard of "general acceptance, " which can be met by convening a group of like-minded experts and publishing their papers in a sympathetic journal.

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Both companies said they will support a standard industry specification to enable broad-scale acceptance of this new high-speed technology.

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