"Experience shows that vague criteria of this kind generate deep uncertainties among both scientists and officials responsible for enforcing regulations," the statement said.

She contended that the police practices were governed by vague criteria rather than departmental policy.

Given the bill's vague criteria, some critics alleged that this requirement could be used to force faculty to cover implausible theories in their classes.

"I have no doubt it will suit your somewhat vague criteria, Captain."

Rather it sets out a vague criterion: a team must use its transfers "to improve its performance on the field."

Prevalence rates vary widely because of its vague diagnostic criteria and its overlapping symptoms with other disorders.

The former gives a typology of standard languages, which however meets criticism for containing disputable and vague criteria.

You actually have to ask the question, how many different illnesses ranging from psychological, to viral, to neurological could be easily squeezed into the vaguer criteria.

With a vague criterion for candidates in place, the search committee took months more to form a wish list under cloak-and-dagger secrecy.

But until now, state and Federal regulators have used vague qualitative criteria to grade bank performance.