"It appears that the membership criteria were set so that a certain group of market participants could meet that, and everyone else would have to jump through hoops," Mr. Katz said.

Katz先生说，会员行的标准是仅有特定的一些参与者才可以达到，任何其他人都必须往这个圈里跳。

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They also knew a lot of female business owners who were left out because they couldn't meet YPO's membership criteria, a minimum number of employees and so many millions in annual revenues "."

他们还认识一些因为达不到青年总裁组织的标准而被该组织拒之门外的女性企业主。青年总裁组织的入会门槛很高，要求员工达到一定数量而且年收入要达到几百万美元。

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Mr Rehn notes that, if one took the worst features of every old EU country, one could easily come up with an amalgam that would barely meet any of the criteria for EU membership.

雷恩注意到这样一种情形：如果将每一个旧成员国中最恶劣的特征祛除，就会很容易的浮现出一个勉强符合成员国任何标准的混合体。

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The report argues that the Commonwealth should set tough membership criteria based on democracy and human-rights records.

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Turkey's EU ambitions long pre-date the collapse of communism, and the country has recently made strenuous efforts to meet the EU's membership criteria including the abolition of capital punishment.

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Other suggested changes to the structure of the ICC board and to the criteria for membership could be just as far-reaching.

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