OMB's guidelines define "quality" as comprising utility, objectivity, and integrity.

Some guidelines have defined "chronic pain" as pain that lasts longer than 3-6 months, but Fraifeld calls those definitions "arbitrary."

With few strict guidelines to define national song beyond quality and lyrical sophistication, the series is open to a variety of interpretations of the idea of American music.

It provides recommendations for relevant missions and users' needs, which serve as guidelines to define the relevant R&D themes.

The guidelines now define a significant expansion or reduction of a program asa change of 25 percent, rather than 50 percent.

The guidelines define normal blood pressure as a reading below 120/80 millimeters of mercury.

In criminal courts, guidelines define the kind of cases that require extra security arrangements, like a homicide trial involving ethnic conflict.

The guidelines define one drink as 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine or 1.5 ounces of distilled spirits, 80 proof.

The guidelines have not defined sufficiently precisely how the market share of a manufacturer and a wholesaler should be determined.