In 1998, nearly 100 detainees staged a hunger strike to protest what they considered tough criteria for getting parole.

The idea is that the effectiveness and level of power for a given group or individual can be measured by considering certain criteria.

Moral judgements involve a complex process of considering and weighing various criteria in a given social situation.

However, it is unlikely to have a single solution that performs well in all considered criteria.

The antennas now need approval only from the Buildings Department, which primarily considers technical criteria like size.

A critical assessment of possible league justifications must consider criteria other than simple geographical distance in defining a team's interest.

Proponents of this view maintain that Congress has the right to consider such criteria as whether a new laboratory will boost an area's economy.

But there are moves to consider criteria other than distance in deciding on eligibility for transportation aid.

The result, he said, is that officials will have to consider new criteria for closing beaches.

This involves adopting a resolution to the report which calls upon the Council to consider certain criteria in its selection of the authority's seat.