The efficiency of a car engine can be defined in terms of a miles-per-gallon equivalent.
Excellence in business is a very broad term, and it can be defined in many different ways.
It has complex and hidden implications for which a strategy needs to be defined in advance of implementation.
And both were unorthodox thinkers who refused to be defined in conventional terms.
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The search origin may be defined in terms of location information such as a place name or a postal code.
The value of sharing can best be defined in terms of influence.
Insisting that marriage be defined in a certain way is fine.
Marx, much like the classical economic thinkers of his era, knew that for money values to be stable, they would have to be defined in terms of gold.
Not only that, but it was unclear what exactly the target should be, since money could be defined in different ways: narrowly, as cash and demand deposits held with commercial banks, or broadly, including savings deposits with other financial institutions.
When doctors occupy a service niche like the chambermaid in Las Vegas or the school teacher in Chicago, the expectations and compensation of the physician-worker will be defined in ways that may make the benefits of collective bargaining appear very attractive.
The story of the next couple of years in Tory politics will be defined, in part, by how he and the prime minister - who may appear together today to celebrate the Games - learn to live together.
SmartBook represents a breakthrough achievement in reading, as it breaks the centuries-old tradition of books as linear experiences that presume to be read in their entirety, and in a pre-defined sequence, in order to be understood.
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This decline represents the realization that some as-yet-to-be-defined value in the future has been lost.
And we will show we understand that individual opportunity is not something that can or should be defined by politicians in Westminster.
The disastrous consequences of including employer stock in defined contribution plans can be seen in the Enron, Worldcom and later U.S. Airways and United bankruptcies.
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Some of the ASAM symptoms of behavioral addiction can potentially be defined as an RRBI in clinical practice.
Although the stewardship of NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith will ultimately be defined by what happens in collective bargaining, he took a large step in defining an active approach towards agents with the suspension of Wichard.
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If you are fortunate enough to be a participant in a defined benefit plan, the same logic applies.
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If the economy shrank again in the current quarter, Germany would technically be in recession, defined as two quarters of contraction.
Lord Astor told the opposition that assurances were being sought from the Chief of Defence Staff that these techniques would only be used by "defined people in defined circumstances".
But at the same time he doesn't want to be defined as the black candidate in the race, realizing the possibility that white voters would be turned off to that.
This would be suicidal in a global economy defined by science and technology, of course.
Saving for retirement is not as easy as it used to be in the days of defined benefit plans.
Yet though there were setbacks for some Eurosceptics, the awkward squad, broadly defined, will be much bigger in the new parliament.
Your lives in service will be defined by something else, something inside of you -- invisible to the eye but obvious for all to see.
But even all these operations have to be conducted within international law, defined in this case as the provisions of the UN Law of the Sea Convention.
That may be difficult since their party tends to be defined, as it was not in the breakout years of 2006 and 2008, by a liberal incumbent president.
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It is my hope that in time, Muslims will not be defined to my fellow Americans by the handful of terrorists, but by the millions of others who are involved in all aspects of American life.
And while Chicago teachers are one of the last groups of employees in the nation to still get a defined benefit pension, it should be noted they do so in lieu of Social Security benefits.
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