"Joining NATO means meeting the criteria for joining NATO countries can't simply fill out an application and become a member the next day,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

In one study of photojournalists, they had been exposed to events that mental health professionals would deem traumatic, while roughly one in sixteen met the criteria for PTSD.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

Also on Friday, Secretary General Rasmussen said the NATO defense ministers agreed to begin a process of identifying criteria for an eventual handover of security responsibility to Afghan forces.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Adam Lerrick, an economics professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania, speaking at the same Washington forum, said the IMF should ensure that all countries seeking loans meet the same criteria.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

"This is a document that puts us on an equal footing and puts obligations on the two of us, which forces us to have an election that satisfies the criteria for democracy,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

"But,it puts us in a very awkward position because,if we cannot go there ourselves to see what they are doing, to whom they are distributing and what criteria they are using, how much they are keeping for themselves, how much is getting lost, we start losing control over it,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

Asked at a press conference in Kabul why the criteria for quarantined votes has changed from 600 per ballot box to more than 1,000,chief electoral officer Daoud Ali Najafi says the ECC just made this decision and the Afghan government's Independent Election Commission agreed to it.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

"We believe, based on the investigations, in decisions that we have already taken but there is some coalition based on the criteria that we layout on our order and that is why we are asking the Election Commission or ordered the Election Commission to take this action in term of the order in a recount."

VOA: standard.2009.09.08