The universe of words has no ultimate criteria corresponding to life and death in the tongueless universe.

The law which regulates our action is thus the ultimate criterion of what we know - practical knowledge being understood to be of paramount importance.

The ultimate criterion for promotion is the ability to execute the techniques successfully, rather than strict stylistic compliance.

If size becomes the ultimate criterion in determining whether a show gets produced, commercial theater may become nothing more than a collection of big-budget musicals.

These variables are often represented as "intermediate" and "ultimate" criteria.

Mr. Thevenot knows that about 25 percent of his candidates won't meet his ultimate criteria for beauty and symmetry.

It did not try to reduce distances, nor was it concerned with the conquest of Space (the ultimate criterion, some people thought, of man's superiority).

Whether they leave readily and venture far, the ultimate criterion for success is longevity.

But are national borders, which have been altered so many times in the last hundred years, really to be the ultimate criterion?

The position eventually taken up by Makarenko was one where the ultimate criteria of truth and morality had to reside in the centralized state.