Sentences with phrase «as a gauge rather»

Personal loans are generally unsecured, meaning they use your credit as a gauge rather than an asset like your house or car.

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Rather simple, when you ponder it a while» Frank Martin «I think volatility is so widely used as a risk - metric simply because it is easy to measure, not because it is a good gauge of risk of permanent loss of capital.

A lot of modern cars have an ecu - controlled temperature gauge as well, which means it tells you what the ecu wants you to see, not an accurate reading of the temperature (often characterised by the gauge constantly pointing to the same point in normal driving rather than fluctuating slightly with driving conditions)

The system displays mph and navigation directions as necessary, theoretically helping the driver maintain focus on the road ahead rather than on the gauges.

There is a slight hint of understeer as you begin to reach its limits, but rather than being frustrating it just helps you gauge how hard you are pushing.

On the other hand, I'm pleased Jaguar chose to go with analog gauges rather than the all - digital package on some of its other recent creations, as it's simply a classier, more mature appearance.

This does not guarantee you a free device, make no mistake about it, but rather, it points as an indicator to the retailer so that they are able to gauge the general market's interest in such a device.

Because of how popular 5/1 ARM mortgages are among homeowners who plan on selling rather than paying off their full mortgage, we set five years as a useful benchmark to gauge the value of refinancing.

The basis of this research and the resultant list may seem rather biased as humans have used only one type of intelligence — working intelligence — to gauge dogs on the smart meter.

At first glance, it looked as though the various blasters don't have ammo counters, instead they have an overheating gauge that I can only assume promotes burst firing rather than going full auto on everyone you see.

Attacking from another point does not do as much damage, but rather fills up the Chain Gauge which awards extra experience and other bonuses.

The character, a robot, worked a little differently from the main character in that it couldn't just pick any weapon, but rather had only its main weapon which powered up as I increased the style gauge (achieved by hitting enemies and dodging attacks, and lost by getting hit).

Much like Nintendo's own compilations on the Wii, Baseball and Table Tennis are included, but they rely on staring at your opponent and gauging the timing and placement of sounds on the TV or console screen, which just comes off as rather awkward.

The game also introduces a stamina gauge for these attacks, but fills up so incredibly quickly that it only proves as a visual distraction rather than a hindrance, as it has never reached a point where you could not perform the move you wanted.

But, rather than taking that as evidence that the tidal gauge estimates were unreliable (as we discussed in Section 3 & 4), he concluded that the satellite was at fault!

However, the tide - gauge literature data shows the current, rather slow but steady as opposed to accelerating, rate started in 1850, long before CO2 warming could have been the cause.

SST's are often, but not always, better gauges for how much heat is leaving the ocean on the way to the atmosphere rather than how much remains at depth to be measured as ocean heat content.

Rather than being flat since 1970, as Mörner claimed in The Spectator article, mean sea level has risen more than 80 mm over that period, according to tide gauges.

In order to maximize the relevance of this feature for our readers, we will start measuring the total amount of time spent on the pages rather than total number of hits, as this gauges impact and legal interest better.

The decision is significant as it highlights the uncertainty solicitors face in trying to gauge the Court's interpretation of the Succession Law Reform Act, underscoring why mediation rather than trial is often the preferred route to settle estate litigation matters.

Statistics Canada numbered current temporary workers in Ontario at over 747,000, although the numbers of those engaged as temp agency employees rather than being hired directly is difficult to precisely gauge (Statistics Canada stopped collecting this data in 2004).

The example below is excellent because it shows standard gauges like speedometer and tachometer as live imagery rather than physical instruments along with a center display on a different angle that provides a visual of a 3D map so that drivers only have to take a quick glace down to see directions rather than having to look sideways at a live map found on an infotainment system display.