The single most important quality of a leader, the sine qua non, is absolute professional integrity.
First of all, price or brand do not necessarily determine the quality of a vitamin supplement.
For the vote tonight is not just about the quality of a recently reshuffled government.
But sometimes they can get hints that the quality of a company's earnings is a little shaky.
Some say that the quality of a badge often predicts, with incredible precision, the quality of an event.
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Surprisingly, successful implementation seems largely uncorrelated to the quality of a plan itself.
Similarly, a network could be quickly configured to guarantee the image quality of a CEO's video broadcast to employees.
The bottom line is that red, white and black circles cannot reveal everything about the quality of a medical practice.
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Or is it that investors make inferences about the quality of a firm in general by virtue of its CSR reporting?
It's not our job to evaluate the quality of a motion picture.
It launched a campaign to remind consumers that the quality of a Montblanc pen was as unique as the event it was commemorating.
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But Sheehan says it's possible to make a distinction between the quality of a piece of science and the ethics of how it was obtained.
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Experts disagree on whether the presence of all this technology actually improves the quality of a student's education, or if it just distracts them from it.
For example, an inexpensive point-and-shoot camera does a reasonable job of taking pictures but cannot begin to compare with the imaging quality of a professional SLR.
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That means assuming the quality of a watch fits your own personal standards, it is difficult to put a price on artistic expression or emotional desire.
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The legal ruling highlighted the "poor" quality of a survey used by the department to argue its case - saying its bias "fatally undermines" its credibility.
The quality of a car driver's eyesight was the most likely cause of a crash at a level crossing in which three people died, according to investigators.
Translate those figures into the quality of a family's life and they mean constant worry, inadequate access to needed medical care and, for many, serious health problems.
Should compensation be based on outcomes from specific events, or should it be based more of a general quality of a person not specific to a particular event?
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Cabranes restated the primary goal of trademark law, which is enforced under the Lanham Act: To protect consumers against being confused about the origin and quality of a product.
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Targeted advertising, which directly compares the quality of a branded product with a private-label rival, is also a short-term solution for consumer-goods companies, which are keen to remind their customers why paying more is a good idea.
Online peer reviews are notoriously unreliable, and although Amazon and other sites have made significant efforts to eliminate biased or untrustworthy reviews, it is still difficult to judge the quality of a book from consumer reviews alone.
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Many Arabs with liberal leanings, for instance, quietly prefer authoritarian rule to the unknown quality of a supposedly democratic Islamic state, something which Mr Diamond, in a recent essay, reckons that some 40-45% of the people in four Arab countries seem to wish for.
The trouble is one of the real points of QE is central banks swap lower quality, potentially liquidity- impaired collateral with higher quality collateral of their own, in the hope that by the fact they are swapping it, in itself it will increase the quality of a potentially impaired asset.
But the schools system has been geared to providing University (and principally Oxbridge) entrants for far too long to the detriment of the majority of children, and no matter how they disguise it it's obvious that many people want to retain that system because that's the only way they can see of protecting the perceived quality of a university degree.
Plastic Logic created QUE to feel as natural in your hand as a pad of paper, while conveying the level of premium quality craftsmanship of a fine pen.
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As long as we are a free people working under the rule of law with free enterprise, we will have a far cleaner environment and a far better quality of life a century from now than we enjoy today.
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