Sentences with phrase «accurate gauge»

A much more accurate gauge of your baby's stress level are his cues.

From this perspective, evaluations of the nation's public schools offer the more accurate gauge of system performance.

This way, you'll have a more accurate gauge for future roasting and baking endeavors.

Either way, it is important to have a relatively accurate gauge on this matter so that you have funding put aside for salaries, health insurance, workers comp insurance etc..

This recognition reminds us that our feelings are not, in fact, entirely accurate gauges of injustice, but are rather mediated through pre-existing frames.

Anyone can sign a pledge (or not sign a pledge), the more accurate gauge would be what they've actually done to bring about reform.

Other differences come from the tests on which the value - added measures are based; because test scores are not perfectly accurate measures of student knowledge, it follows that they are not perfectly accurate gauges of teacher performance.

It didn't do well on Lithub and I find them to be a very accurate gauge of well written books.

As Walter Robinson's paintings have evolved, they've come to serve as an uncannily accurate gauge for the American art world's analogously shifting, and increasingly nuanced, attitudes toward consumerism and mass culture.

And let us tell you a secret: body language is a far more accurate gauge for your success than words, which tells you the future of your relationship way before your date would say anything.

The new test, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers — PARCC — is intended to give a more honest, accurate gauge of how well students are prepared for the next grade level, for college, for life.

But is how you feel really an accurate gauge of how well rested you are?

In recent months, the ONS began including extended commentary on CPIH in its CPI releases, as it believes the reading is a more accurate gauge of price changes.

By eliminating the juice / vig, we believe we have an accurate gauge on the confidence of the oddsmakers.

Looking at the candidates» percentage of the vote - not their vote counts - offers a more accurate gauge of their strength because Erie County's population has fallen since the 1970s.

In addition the BPC has called for greater transparency from pollsters, including logging in advance when each conducts a survey, stating clearly how the weighting has changed from poll to poll, releasing «micro data» for scrutiny and providing much more accurate gauges of the margin of error.

Whether that is an accurate gauge of one's ability to be a good fire fighter is open to debate, but I reject the notion that unequal outcomes = racism.

Campaigners have long been calling upon the government to release figures for the number of people with active NI numbers, which they say will provide a more accurate gauge of migration levels than existing official figures.

Other times, it's the whole ball game, an accurate gauge of what is and what will be.

«On a future mission — so that I don't have to lose so much sleep — I'd love to have a flow meter or some kind of way to get an accurate gauge of how much propellant we use,» Barber said.

«Daily weigh - ins are not an accurate gauge of progress,» says Tanya Zuckerbrot, a registered dietitian based in New York City and founder of the F - Factor Diet.

Blood tests are the most accurate gauge of blood ketone levels (which is what matters), and dumping fuel into the urine isn't a great use of resources, even glucose only gets dumped in pathological states, as the glucose challenge in the fasted state demonstrates.

Unions like to use measures of annual salary, while Vedder suggests that hourly wages provide a more accurate gauge of teachers» pay.

Based on this, can you be sure that the oil dipstick readings are still an accurate gauge of the ideal oil level, or in theory could this have been put out of whack by the balance - shaft delete / subsequent modifications?

General Motors officials say that the tests do not provide a full and accurate gauge of how a vehicle performs in real - world conditions, but they also acknowledge that consumers value crash data for comparison shopping.

The 12 % of total profit figure is a much more accurate gauge of the unit's economic importance to Babcock.

These norms, focused on evaluating borrower risk on past credit history and credit score, do not work as an accurate gauge for international students and their creditworthiness.

However, Bullard said recent events show so - called core inflation that strips out volatile food and energy prices is no longer an accurate gauge of trends and raises doubts in the public's mind about the Fed's effectiveness.

As discussed earlier, the INAV can become stale and fail to be an accurate gauge of where a bond ETF should be trading.

That way, your certification remains an accurate gauge of up - to - date skills and knowledge — and reflects your commitment to staying current in your profession.

Publishers already have an accurate gauge of the game's likely demand, building on top of an existing game takes minimal effort compared with making a whole new one, and even some of those who have played on one system have been reasonably happy to spend more money for a sexier go - around.

Which may mean that the exhibition is more of an accurate gauge of the genre's 21st - century standing than we might, at first, realize.

Allen and Sherwood predicted that measuring thermal winds, which are tied to fluctuations in temperatures, would be a more accurate gauge of true atmospheric warming than the thermometers.

I don't dispute that we believe there to be negativity, and our portrayal in film and television is frequently negative (Al Pacino in the Devil's Advocate), but I'm not sure that this is an accurate gauge of the public's perception of lawyers.

Thus, it's important to be yourself and answer honestly so that the potential employer can get an accurate gauge of who you are in the workplace.

Once the agent has the correct price bracket for the home, they will then determine what features or unique qualities could set the property apart from others in the area to give a more accurate gauge of the home's value.

Lane said the Showing Index, which tracks the average number of appointments received on an active listing during the lifecycle of the listing, is an accurate gauge of real estate demand.