This means not checking performance day-by-day, month-by-month, quarter-by-quarter, but rather with a long-term focus.

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The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art.

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Yet we have no means of checking who is here lawfully.

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The new protocol also offers enhanced security, by providing a cryptographic means of checking that a particular packet really does come from the machine it claims to.

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For most people, this means changing your primary checking account and bank relationships.

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Doctors say they often rely on their own instant judgments in the office and have little reliable means of double-checking the patients' information.

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But the government's overall approach is focused more on means-testing, rather than on checking people's ability to work.

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As the Inside Out programme discovers tonight, there is a high-tech means of identifying stricken trees using equipment originally designed for checking war zones for chemical weapons.

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It just means your comments will never have the chance to appear without prior checking, and you won't get the chance to do the grading.

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This means that there is no time to do the most basic tasks like checking the vital signs of the patients.

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That means your money is always working for you, instead of idling in a no-interest checking account while waiting to be spent on bills or moved to savings.

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