Sentences with phrase «as a barometer in»

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Chinese - language dailies may be more influential than the Post, but changes in its editorial direction are seen as a barometer for press freedom under Chinese rule.

«It's an interesting demonstration of the ways in which apps and social media platforms both reflect and are sensitive to cultural change and serve as a cultural barometer but can also codify what is acceptable behavior,» she said.

So to Yeager, performance of Amazon's Echo serves as a barometer for performance of virtual assistants in general.

The yield, a barometer for mortgage rates and other financial instruments, has jumped in April on signs of nascent inflation and as the Federal Reserve stood by its plan to gradually tighten monetary policy.

Meanwhile government bond yields, a reliable barometer of market fear, are falling to record low levels as investors engage in a panicked hunt for risk - free assets.

Also known as the VIX, the index in question is a measure of expected price swings in US equities that serves as a barometer for investor nervousness.

According to the Flash Euro Barometer, 26 percent of Americans reported that they had taken part in such a course or activity when they were asked in 2012, as compared with 23 percent of the residents of the 27 countries of the European Union.

In addition, interest rates on U.S. Treasury bonds are used as barometers for determining global economic health [9], and as pegs for many other interest rates, including American mortgage and student loan rates [10, 11].

However, what you may not have realized is that our technical stock and ETF screener is also quite useful as a barometer of overall market health, which assists in having proper market timing.

The viewpoint is catching on with advisors and consumers, but retirement research is still largely focused on the notion that individuals need to find a safe withdrawal rate for their retirement and then use that as a barometer to compute a wealth accumulation target in order to fund their desired retirement spending.

Instead, I have gone through my career in national media with a misinformed sense of satisfaction that, as a perceptive young journalist, I called Trump on his lies and gave Forbes readers who used the Rich List as a barometer of private wealth a more accurate picture of his finances than the one he was selling.

The so - called January Barometer, as first mentioned by Yale Hirsch of the Stock Trader's Almanac, suggests the performance of stocks in the first month of the calendar year dictates where prices will head for the year overall.

Outside of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), the Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 may stand as the most well - known market barometer in the world.

The 1970's saw a rise in the price of commodities generally, and gold acted as a barometer for how little people trusted the new financial system that replaced one of the rarest metals on earth with «made up money».

The Almanac originated such important market phenomena as the «January Barometer» and the «Santa Claus Rally» and was instrumental in popularizing other tradable strategies, such as «The Best Six Months Strategy» (commonly known as «Sell in May and Go Away») and the four - year Presidential Election Cycle.

Republicans should be happy to learn this Truth that has brought America to the state of Light for Obama to pick on it.One thing good about American Democracy is it is «truly participating» and lasting with lessons for others to follow in modernity to tap blue horizons of life.Those blue horizons just do not end in economics that has many minds to tap the financial barometer of the country self educative in working of its affluent class and ordinary class both domestically and internationally relating to perfection with budgeting of money in economic plans that have been existing and are in the process to move charismatically with a tide over where bipartisan element also comes into play well integrated to test the mettle of the top leader of the country who has to stand over the continuous democratic element evolving of the country both in economic as well as inherently in spiritual terms for the good of the people at large mixing with the culture of exchange that has humanity behind it to survive??

And all the time, as during the crucial hours before, the captain simply stared at the falling barometer in sheer refusal to open his stolid mind to the knowledge of what, even before the storm came, he ought to have done.

The barometer of how much faith as trust there is in your life is how much anxiety there is in your life.

They are going to get the Rookies Team Weisel in Week 2 and it will serve as a nice barometer for both Teams as squads are jockeying for position early in the season..

In this case, I used the season win totals from CG Technology as a barometer for 2015 performance.

But, as we've seen in recent years, a Globe win doesn't guarantee an Oscar lock so it's probably not the most accurate Oscar barometer.

And, of course, those engaging in this debate can always use the California Interscholastic Federation bowl series as a barometer.

The resulting data is used to compare relative abundance of seabirds over time — to help us understand populations within the sanctuary and their possible impacts on local ecosystems and as a barometer for other changes in the environment.

The report also has a barometer that measures baby - friendly hospitals despite the importance of this 25 year initiative, only 42 countries have achieved baby friendly status in their hospitals and only half of the hospitals in these countries are classified as being truly «baby friendly».

The Barometer tells us that honest, continuous conversation ranks as highly as offering value - for - money products in terms of improving your reputation.

«Indeed, our efforts at restoring business confidence are beginning to yield positive results, as confirmed by the AGI Business Barometer, showing a consistent rise in business confidence throughout this year.

He has sharpened his act at Prime Minister's Questions — where his performances serve as a barometer of morale in the Parliamentary Labour Party.

It is designed to act as a barometer of party opinion to inform the leadership as to whether or not they are going in the right direction.

Election barometer The Political Forecasting Unit's «election barometer», designed to capture the changing state of the race as it unfolds through the campaign, shows the Conservatives one point ahead of the Liberal Democrats in terms of vote share, with Labour four points further adrift.

The Political Forecasting Unit's «election barometer», designed to capture the changing state of the race as it unfolds through the campaign, shows the Conservatives on top in terms of vote share, but Labour leading in terms of projected seats, despite trailing last or joint last in terms of vote share.

In the presence of gravity, electric charge — a barometer of the strength of the electromagnetic force — tends to go to zero as energies rise (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature09506).

Mercury is a naturally occurring chemical element that is used in several devices such as thermometers, barometers, fluorescent lamps and other devices.

But «if the barometer shows a very major decline — as [the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species suggests already]-- in mammals due to overhunting in Asia then that informs us what needs to be done.»

In recent years, Blackburn has expanded on that initial work to show that these gauges of cellular health serve as barometers of environmental and emotional stress and predictors of various diseases.

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The findings, which offer a roadmap for broad, quality implementation of preschool programs, expand upon studies that have long served as barometers for the value of early childhood education: the Abecedarian Project, which traces back to the 1970s, and the Perry Preschool Project, which commenced in the 1960s.

Many people use stress as a barometer for how much they get done in a day.

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Low leptin is typically the result of being in an energy deficit as it is a barometer as to the status of your on board energy reserves (body fat) look like.

But don't use my being in ketosis or not as any barometer for you!

All too often a honeymoon gets factored in as just one more level of comparison — another barometer of how am I measuring up?

It's obvious that they've spent their joint career striving to promote an egalitarianism in Hollywood — not just with their all - inclusive casting decisions, but also with their embrace of the test - screening process as a barometer of artistic success.

As the zeitgeist is one of those things we tend to discuss in the past tense, you have to wonder whether it's a vacuum or a barometer.

As you complete missions and take down bigger and badder beasts, your hunter rank will increase, which is the general barometer used to measure how far someone is in the game or how powerful they are.

While the word «accountability» never appears in Risk, its call for higher academic standards and its focus on student achievement as the main barometer of quality laid the intellectual groundwork for the rigorous curricula and tests envisioned by the promoters of standards - based -LSB-...]

This year, «down - ballot» races like Question 2 on expanding the cap on charter schools in Massachusetts and the gubernatorial race in North Carolina are generating particular interest as barometers for where state policy might move.

After the release of the Brown Center's report in September 2000, Stephen O'Brien, the Blue Ribbon program's director, criticized both our reliance on academic achievement as the sole barometer of a good school and our reliance on absolute scores rather than gains in achievement from year to year.

The portfolios were developed as part of the 1992 National Assessment of Educational Progress, a federally financed program that provides one of the primary barometers of student achievement in the United States.

What used to be considered «the engine of social mobility» (see Fareed Zakaria in the new Time magazine), the incubator of productive and successful citizens (and parents), the school is now treated as some kind of barometer of caste and class.

As one of the most esteemed auto magazines in the world, Car and Driver's annual «Top 10 Cars» is always a good barometer for automakers to see if one — or maybe two — of their vehicles made it to the list.