Sentences with phrase «as a gauge for»

Johnson pointed to technical symmetry from 2014 and 2015 as a gauge for how nervous Apple investors should be.

Home prices also serve as a gauge for the health of this segment.

As luck would have it, the bright star Spica [Alpha (á) Virginis] has nearly the same right ascension as both NGC 5128 and Omega Centauri, so we can use it as a gauge for when both are at culmination.

I think I can ensure a better carryover (to be honest, squats aren't even the goal, like I'm not training for powerlifting, I just want to use them as a gauge for general lower body strength) if I get to do a few reps with the pistols.

And the analogy I give my patients is, using a TSH as a gauge for thyroid hormone levels is like going outside and feeling the sidewalk to detect what the temperature is, right?

Test it and see if that feels stronger or weaker with weights, or however you want to do your squat, see if it feels more dialed in or not with body weight, test it as a gauge for yourself.

Especially since you mention lower reps and longer rest as your gauge for intensity.

Indeed, the National Assessment of Educational Progress test is often used as a gauge for actual student performance specifically because it is a low - stakes test.

Precedent for a federal policy as far - reaching as this proposal is found in the way education policies are «enforced» at the federal level: as gauges for funding.

The quoted price movements of these futures contracts in early trading is used by some investors as a gauge for how the overall exchanges will perform when the market opens and throughout the trading day.

Toll's financial results are closely watched by the housing market as a gauge for the high - end market, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Love this as gauge for evaluating how my time is best spent, how my thoughts get dragged to the unimportant.

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That makes her answer not just a handy way for young people to gauge their readiness for the real world, but also a thought - provoking read for parents as well.

But as your organization grows, you'll want to find ways to gauge which of your existing employees might make for strong members of your leadership team.

Since the passage of the Small Business Act, the SBA has developed size standards for every industry to gauge whether a company qualifies as a «small business» or not.

Christina Kramer, CIBC's group head of personal and small business banking for Canada, said it is too early to gauge the extent of the impact of the mortgage underwriting rules, as well as the January interest rate hike.

Many websites, such as Charity Navigator, GuideStar and Give.org, provide tools for you to gauge how effectively charities are using your donations.

The fear gauge was locked in a range between 10 and 14 for the first three months of 2017, and while it's since climbed as high as 15.96, it's been stuck well below 14 since a single - day plunge of 26 % one week ago.

Because it can be difficult to gauge how customers will react to the wear and tear on the skis — and because skis can be difficult to ship back and forth — the seller had a special box designed that can withstand up to three shipments, so sending the skis back is as easy as possible for the customer.

As for companies, it has become increasingly difficult to gauge the best places to spend marketing dollars.

Durability is more difficult for customers to gauge at the time of purchase, but comfort can be felt as soon as you lace your shoes and stand up.

«When the averages are falling apart, the thing to focus on is the CBOE Volatility Index, the VIX for short, also known as the fear gauge, which was so heavily tied to the big breakdown in February,» Cramer said.

For example, posting content off of your website with links pointing back to it will generate referral traffic, which you can use as a way to gauge off - site reader interest.

«As an early gauge of spring buying activity, purchase applications for the last four weeks were all higher than the corresponding week a year ago, up an average of 4.8 percent on a year - over-year basis.»

For bondholders, the interest coverage ratio is supposed to act as a safety gauge.

You will meet with our Regional Business Manager for a second interview, who will gauge your potential for success and overall suitability as a business partner.

The Index looks at the results of three leading indicators to gauge confidence in the commercial construction industry — backlog levels, new business opportunities and revenue forecasts — generating a composite index on a scale of 0 to 100 that serves as an indicator of health for the contractor segment on a quarterly basis.

At their lows of the day, major indexes fell sharply, with both the Dow and the S&P 500 dropping below their 200 - day moving averages, a closely watched gauge used as a proxy for an asset's long - term momentum trends.

To gauge the effects a particular development will have on the index, GeoQuant relies on historical trends that serve as corollaries to current events — for instance, impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton in the 1990s.

The market, as gauged by the federal - funds rate, indicate about even odds for a further three rate increases this year.

His preferred strategy was for the Fed to publish a detailed plan for shrinking its balance sheet, allow some time to gauge the market reaction, and then continue to use short term rates as the primary policy lever.

Dozens of worldwide volatility indexes can serve as valuable tools for investors who wish to gauge intraday and long - term sentiment changes related to a variety of asset classes.

In fact, the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) traded at its lowest level in decades for much of the year.1 Known as the fear gauge, the VIX reflects the market's short - term outlook for stock price volatility.

It is noteworthy that this increase is happening as the New York Fed's Underlying Inflation Gauge (UIG) hit another high for this recovery, rising from 3.01 % in January to 3.06 % in February.

The NAHB / Wells Fargo Housing Market Index gauges builder perceptions of current single - family home sales and sales expectations for the next six months as «good,» «fair» or «poor.»

While the VIX Index itself is a gauge and is not investable, Cboe offers the following VIX - related benchmark indexes (all shown in image above) that are designed to serve as benchmarks for hypothetical investable performance over more than a decade.

They are used as a gauge to determine any bonus a specific manager will be eligible for during a given period.

Investors have been clamoring for airlines to rein in capacity growth as a way to turn around declines in that benchmark revenue gauge.

While Microsoft Ventures is committed to act as a strategic partner for budding startups around the world, his role to garner startups in a country like India, where Entrepreneurs are yet to gauge the value - worth of market intelligence and market insights, is a hard - hitting task with a single focused objective — build locally, scale globally.

As it was newly introduced, there is very little very information to go on for us to gauge its capabilities apart from the fact it is still in beta testing and has so far been said to be unreliable.

Last week, trade protectionism re-emerged as a concern not only among the crowds gathered in Davos for the World Economic Forum, but also among financial market participants seeking to gauge the impact of a rising risk of protectionism.

Huebert Since I use Philippians as a gauge to where my att - itude is I may as refer to it as my standard for good thinking: «whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things.»

I also view conferences like this, and ministries like Morris» and Driscoll's, as a kind of gauge for the health of the general church.

The literary tropes of sex and death in the Twilight series, it has to be said, are well worn, as worn as the ruts in the Roman roads that turned into the standard gauge for European railroads.

This has nothing to do with public perception but as a tool for gauging our heart.

Those are just some of the questions in a confidential survey sent to 400,000 active - duty and reserve troops this week as part of an effort to gauge reactions in the ranks if the military lifts its «don't ask, don't tell» policy that has kept g - ay and le - sbian troops in the closet for the last 17 years.»

Global figures are difficult to gauge because of poor reporting in some countries and differences in methods of reporting; for example, some countries will classify maternal mortality as the death of a woman within 21 days of birth, others 42 days; some include only direct causes - sepsis, haemorrhage, obstruction - whereas others will include indirect causes such as malaria and anaemia.

Use your cravings as your own gauge to determine how much is right for you and know that fruit absolutely can be part of a healthy lower sugar diet long term if you want it to be.

Cook's Illustrated and America's Test Kitchen: Holiday Cookies, December, 2010 «Sight, touch, and instinct are age - old ways to gauge when food is done, but for consistent results, none is as reliable as taking the food's internal temperature... The test kitchen's go - to thermometer for any task is the ThermoWorks Super-Fast Thermapen...» (page 15)

Campbell's working his absolute socks off, I'm all for him continuing as only a handful of games in the Prem is not nearly enough to gauge him as a player.