Example sentences of "by the same criterion " in BNC.

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1 I will not go on to examine by the same criteria the other manifestations of The Thing , such as the anti-apartheid demonstrations , in which open breach of the law was widely condoned and encouraged by the organs of public opinion .
2 Can prison diets and living conditions reasonably be judged by the same criteria as those in western countries , when the quality of life for the ‘ honest poor ’ outside is so much lower ?
3 It defines a cultural good by the same criteria as the above directive .
4 As a general rule , rugs employing bolder , more overtly geometric compositions should be judged by the same criteria as nomadic rugs , particularly if they are also dyed in a limited palette of austere or primary shades .
5 He urged the world to " address the question of Palestine by the same criteria that it had applied over the question of Kuwait " .
6 But even when they are judged by the same criteria , the evidence does not support the contention that private institutions perform better ( Goodsell 1983 , pp. 48–55 ) .
7 What such an identification involved becomes apparent in Prisoner in a passage which renders the crucial difference not one of colour , yet by the same criterion reinstates the distinction between blacks and whites : ‘ What separates us from the Blacks today is not so much the colour of our skin or the type of our hair as the phantom-ridden psyche we never see except when a Black lets fall some joking and to us cryptic phrase .
8 By the same criterion , it is even possible to envisage life without carbon .
9 And by the same criterion , no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance .
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