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The goals of the association's board, he said, were much broader than merely standardizing the game.

The state supported this effort by standardizing amounts for certain wrongs.

The Single Convention has been extremely influential in standardizing national drug control laws.

Analytical thinking is driven by a quantitative process, standardizing to eliminate judgment, bias, and variation.

Rick Weintraub, a spokesman for the airline, said that standardizing procedures was more a continuing process than evidence of a problem.

Engineers paid belated attention to fuel economy by standardizing the corporate 400-cid V-8 with 179 net bhp.

After leaving the court Olson then served as Oregon's code commissioner from 1919 to 1921, where he was charged with standardizing the state's laws.

The name of his contemporary, Melville Dewey, is attached to the idea of standardizing classification.

The unavoidable problem for the progress of mental testing is the lack of objective criteria for standardizing tests.

Management sought to unify the brand by naming all stores Big Lots and by standardizing store layout, lighting and checkout systems.

His contributions range from founding the study of graph theory with the Seven Bridges of Königsberg problem to standardizing many modern mathematical terms and notations.

Stationed at New York (1900-08), his genius further expressed itself on the Ambrose Channel project and in standardizing fortification construction methods.

They are simply part of the Government's plan to dilute the tribal population - to promote nationalism by standardizing the Bengali language, culture and the Muslim religion.

Electronic processing, standardizing and simplifying claims and audit procedures could save a quarter of the more than $100 billion we will spend this year to administer the system.

Therefore, it is recommended that embryos be classified according to distinctive morphological features and certain physical dimensions to provide a more accurate and sensitive means of standardizing experiments.

By standardizing support practices, MCIEAST eliminates manpower redundancies throughout the bases and stations.

Since World War II, IUPAC has been focused on standardizing nomenclature and methods in science without interruption.

Dante is still credited with standardizing the Italian language, and thus the dialect of Florence became the basis for what would become the official language of Italy.

While serving in the United States Marine Corps, McCann was responsible for standardizing all hostage recovery tactics and equipment, and training all counter-terrorist forces.

The 767-100 was ultimately not offered for sale, as its capacity was too close to the 757's seating, while the 777 trijet was eventually dropped in favor of standardizing around the twinjet configuration.

The Harriman standard Mikados, including SP 745 and the other members of Southern Pacific's Mk-5 class designed in 1913, were the first great attempt at standardizing the main freight locomotive.

On 24 July 1906, he participated in a conference in Kyoto that had been called for the purpose of standardizing judo forms (kata) that could be taught in Japanese public schools.

It can protect sale of unpasteurized cheese and the hunt for wood pigeons, which Brussels foolishly thought to ban on grounds of standardizing norms, to the outrage of highly vocal French groups.

In 1951, the first 24 Statements on Auditing Procedure were codified The Codification also contains a summary history of the process of standardizing auditing practice up to 1951 (see pp.

This led to further research surrounding the use of sodium nitrite as an additive in food, standardizing the amount present in foods to minimize the amount needed while maximizing its food additive role.

It has expended particular efforts on standardising the various writing systems used.

Sharpened bounds can be derived by first standardising the random variable.

Standardising a phonemic spelling could be controversial because of the variety of spoken English.

This is, no doubt, because of the very nature of the European Union, which is given to standardising and levelling.

By standardising processes and creating transparent commercial models, the Government will build a common, flexible ICT infrastructure.

The Atlas V Light was cancelled in favour of standardising on the Medium configuration, and as a result the Agena-2000 was never built.

The CD era saw the standardising of the Beatles' discographies worldwide, but the Hey Jude album is not available on compact disc.

We are anxious to do something about social dumping but do not consider that standardising social security systems and national labour market policies is the best method of achieving this.

By standardising the hardware and software platforms used within an organisation, the IT department or service provider can deploy new computers and correct problems with existing computers quickly.

Pedestrianism, in which people were allowed to wager on long distance competitive walking and running events, brought a standardising of athletics which reflected the modernisation of Welsh industrial society.

The Mobility Management project promotes closer operational co-operation and aims to provide a more coherent offer to passengers across South Yorkshire, e.g. by standardising fares for the different services.

In 1871, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) was founded with the purpose of standardising the rules for the clubs playing the Rugby-style of football in England.

Despite being the lingua franca of the Solomon Islands, Pijin remains a spoken language with little to no effort made thus far on the part of the national government toward standardising its orthography and grammar.

In the meantime, the procedures for management of the EDF should be simplified, in particular by making it possible to close previous EDFs as early as possible and by standardising their financial rules.

This lasted well into the 20th century until Bittor Zabala, more commonly known as Arteondo, whose own career as a stone lifter lasted from 1910 to 1945, initiated the process of standardising the shapes and weights of the stones.

National Semiconductor's manufacturing improvements under Sporck (in collaboration with Lamond) had not been enabled by emphasis on process innovation but on improving and standardising processes already established by other companies like Fairchild and Texas Instruments.

In most Boards, commercial officers were preoccupied with the immense task of standardising the mass of different consumer tariffs inherited from the separate undertakings on nationalisation, avoiding rapid change which would upset consumers, but producing a coherent, standard charge which would be defensible.

Air New Zealand is now standardising on the ATR turboprop family and athough the Q300 fleet is barely ten years old, Air Nelson has been advised to prepare for a change in fleet to the ATR 42 family.