Sentences with phrase «though by most measures»

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By the mid-1990s, when Oracle had effectively neutered its competition, Ellison had begun making a sport of taking pot shots at Microsoft and its founder Bill Gates, though both were, by most measures, entirely out of his leaguBy the mid-1990s, when Oracle had effectively neutered its competition, Ellison had begun making a sport of taking pot shots at Microsoft and its founder Bill Gates, though both were, by most measures, entirely out of his leaguby most measures, entirely out of his league.

Both now boast more users than Twitter by most measures, even though they are much newer, and advertisers have begun to migrate their ad dollars accordingly.

Though the most productive moments of dialogue may take place in private, the ostensible framework of dialogue is that of public discourse measured by results, joint statements, and so forth.

Furthermore, tests using a new test called liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry (LC - MS)-- scientists believe it is a more accurate way to measure gluten in fermented beers — showed that even though all the tested beers «had been rated by their makers to have gluten levels below 20 mg / kg, according to ELISA», the new test «found detectable gluten fragments in every sample using LC - MS, and most had much higher levels of gluten than ELISA detected.»

The top 10 % of earners pay the most under the government's austerity, the IFS said, though it admitted many of the measures hitting the richest were implemented or devised by the previous Labour government and were continued by the coalition.

While it isn't a great performance by most traditional measures, it likely would have been an action star - making turn, as Lee not only has the athletic physical attributes to convincingly go through the motions of the fight choreography, there is an innate sense of goodness and sensitivity in his demeanor that makes for a fine romantic hero, even though he looks like the inspiration of Heath Ledger's Joker from The Dark Knight and he's got murder on his mind.

Most states, EdTrust wrote, didn't even measure inequity, though required by law.

The Vinci Tab looks a lot like most seven - inch Android tablets, especially the Samsung Galaxy Tab ($ 399, 3.5 stars), though measuring 7.25 by 10 by 0.63 inches (HWD) and weighing 1.45 pounds, it's a bit bulkier.

The tablet itself measures just 0.85 by 8.25 by 5.8 inches (HWD)-- though most of that thickness is in the rounded, rolled edge, while the main tablet is just 0.3 - inch thick — and weighs a very light 0.94 pounds, so using it won't wear out your arm after 10 minutes.

Chinese stocks, as measured by the iShares FTSE China 25 Index ETF (NYSE: $ FXI) spent most of 2011 and 2012 in a downtrend, though in the past two months they have shown signs of life.

There are five companies that dominate life reinsurance globally, and in my opinion, RGA is the best, though they are a close number 2 by most measures of market share.

That sale made Kusama the most expensive living female artist as measured by auction sales (though she was dethroned by Cady Noland the following year).

Even the most pronounced warming, evident from the cities of Hobart and Melbourne, is within what could be considered natural — though the trends shown here are likely to be artificially exaggerated by the method of measuring temperature since 1996 ** (electronic probes) and the urban heat island (UHI) effect.

This year I donated to AMF, SCI, Deworm the World, Project Healthy Children, and the Copenhagen Consensus Center... These were all recommended by GWWC except the Copenhagen Consensus Center — I chose to donate to them because I think that promoting global prioritization is one of the most important activities to be doing, and, though harder to be sure about, their influence is potentially measured in the hundreds of millions or billions of dollars.»

One of the most prominent myths is that sceptics employ a «tactic» to subvert the public's trust in the consensus by challenging the integrity of the scientific theories it is assumed to consist of (even though these theories have not been identified, let alone confidence in them measured).

Though no amount of money can bring back a life in B.C. but there are some measures in place to compensate those who are most affected by the death of a family member.

And here, too, it's the simple numbers that get used because... they're there, the most important measure being the frequency with which articles from the journal are cited by others (though whether the «others» must be published in journals other than the measured journal, I don't know).