Sentences with phrase «by any objective measure»

Our defensiveness here is driven by objective measures that have validation in a century of market cycles.

He was further surprised to learn that a few churches balked at the idea of being evaluated by objective measures.

While Totti's pursuit of Silvio Piola's scoring record will ultimately fall flat, Totti already has more appearances than any attacking outfield player in the history of the league and is, by any objective measure (bias alert, but not really), the best Italian to ever play the game.

By any objective measure, there was a lot of school lunch reform «power» in that room, and the conversation was intelligent, insightful, and informed.

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By any objective measure, the property tax cap has been an enormous success.»

President Mulgrew said: «By objective measures like the racial achievement gap or the college readiness rate, and by public disenchantment with the governance of the schools, it is clear that mayoral control in its current form has not worked.

«By every objective measure, our fund - raising has picked up steam as the Senate Democrats have demonstrated they are not up to the task,» said Senator Tom Libous, the chairman of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee.

And when you look at the risks side by side, the researchers continued, «by any objective measure the impact threat is minuscule (by a factor of at least a thousand) compared to the threat from anthropogenic climate change.»

But many who by all objective measures maintain balanced diets still feel the need to purge.

By objective measures, our young people are more anxious, more depressed, and have more psychopathology in general than students did a few decades ago.

By all objective measures, and any subjective measure that you'd care to hold a Camry to, the Passat is a fine car.

Let me preface what comes next by saying that, by any objective measure, I am a successful author.

Frankly, my impression is that the recent improvement in market action won't last, but again, our investment positions are driven much more by objective measures of prevailing market conditions.

It's one of the main reasons I enjoy games from the N64 era that, by any objective measure, have aged much worse than their 2D predecessors.

Thus by an objective measure, the planet is indeed warming rapidly.

By any objective measure, this apocalyptic vision is plainly wrong.

Not exact matches

I was very proud of the fact that our waterfront corporation has installed what is by most objective measures a world - leading broadband capacity.

The results, compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit, are based on both subjective life - satisfaction surveys and objective measures of quality of life.

That some of the forces governing capital flows and asset values are driven not by market - determined expected return but by policy measures directed at, for example, an exchange rate objective means that at least some of what we observe in global capital markets may be attributed to these distortions.

While the prospectus objective identifies a fund's investment goals based on the wording in the fund prospectus, the Morningstar Category identifies funds based on their actual investment styles as measured by their underlying portfolio holdings (portfolio and other statistics over the past three years).

UNG's investment objective is for the daily changes in percentage terms of its shares» net asset value to reflect the daily changes in percentage terms of the natural gas price delivered at the Henry Hub, La., as measured by the daily changes in the benchmark futures contract minus expenses.

Inflation, as measured by the personal consumption expenditure deflator, is currently well below the Federal Reserve's objective of 2 percent.

The periods measured by LPL are within the red rectangles while the black rectangles cover the periods I find most relevant for a complete, objective and realistic analysis.

Motivate and train team members to do exceptional work by setting objectives and measuring key results

The combination of the above risk management measures driven by the investor's specific goals and objectives may provide the investor with a greater sense of control over their own destiny.

However, the risk of being thrown off the scent can be reduced by having an objective way of measuring the ebbs and flows in the confidence that drives, among other things, the performance of the gold market.

«It gives an objective measure by business judges when they see the quality of our students.

That implied that space and time are not objective parameters within which motion occurs and by which it can be measured.

(I suspect that they measure their success by the amount of overt gratitude received rather than by more objective means.)

According to the first objection, any idea of revelation violates the idea of objective truth as measured by the criteria of empirical verification and falsification.

When the servers hear the message of faith - based reform, they imagine a bold social experiment to be measured by its objective outcomes.

report every five years to the Murray - Darling Basin Authority on the achievement of environmental outcomes at a Basin scale, by reference to the targets to measure progress towards the environmental objectives in Schedule 7 (Basin Plan Schedule 12, item 7).

The objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of the Australian co-regulatory system in limiting children's exposure to unhealthy television food advertising by measuring compliance with mandatory and voluntary regulations.

By most objective statistical measures he measures quite poorly among his peers.

It does not measure other critical brain functions that can be adversely affected by head trauma, such as balance and vision, which is why expert groups [1] recommend a «multifaceted approach to concussion management that emphasizes the use of objective assessment tools aimed at capturing the spectrum of clinical signs and symptoms, cognitive dysfunction, and physical deficits... that are more sensitive to the injury than using any one component alone.»

The K - D test, originally developed in the 1980's by optometrists Al King and Steve Devick at the Illinois College of Optometry, provides objective measures of many aspects of brain function, including subcortical (subconscious) pathways that extend beyond eye movements.

Whether your multiples are in an Early Intervention program or receiving therapy through the school district, their development is measured by how well they meet goals and objectives.

It's supposed to operate in a broad - based fashion measured by objective and even - handed criteria.

«I commend the speaker for distributing member items not on the basis of political favors but on the basis of objective need, as measured by the number of residents in your district who live below the poverty line,» he said.

Schwarzenegger can't be measured by yardsticks used on the average politician; but by any objective standard, he can expect a dogfight next November.

His proposal also empowers the health commissioner to order more Medicaid cuts if the measures proposed by his task force don't reach their objective.

The study led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is the first to show that lisdexamfetamine (LDX) improved subjective and objective measures of cognitive decline commonly experienced in menopausal women.

Our results show that the limitations imposed by climate objectives and the available means of combating climate change could have a major impact on the optimal climate change mitigation measures.

There maybe a simple objective way of assessing whether human impacts qualify as new era or epoch: By measuring the volume of crust material disturbance caused by humans in comparison to recognized geological events, such as the K - T boundary impacBy measuring the volume of crust material disturbance caused by humans in comparison to recognized geological events, such as the K - T boundary impacby humans in comparison to recognized geological events, such as the K - T boundary impact.

«There should be a study,» says graduate school dean Lawrence Martin of the State University of New York, Stony Brook, who is also head of a panel of land - grant colleges that has drafted a position paper urging coverage of more fields, greater use of objective research criteria, exploration of some measures of program outcome, and ranking institutions by cluster rather than individually.

All three measures — objective rating by Chou, subjective rating by patients, and digital data from the device's connection to a computer — showed improvement for eating and transferring items when the device was turned on, compared to when it was off.

The new study, published online January 24 in Psychological Science, teased out the answer by examining 30 years of data on thousands of Americans, including psychological measures of mood and well - being, reports of job and relationship success, and objective measures of health.

«So far, there has been no objective measure whether this expert is better than another and by how much.

Additional exploratory objectives include assessing the impact that each compound has on the toxic mutant protein known to cause loss of brain cells in HD, as well as evaluating potential clinical effects and impact on brain atrophy as measured by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).