Sentences with phrase «as a point of comparison»

Online reviews also serve as a point of comparison with other similar products and help the reader quickly make their selection from all the available options.

The selection of a neighboring public school as the point of comparison ensured that the groups of students being compared were as similar as possible.

Let us use cotton as our point of comparison.

Those who have the still good - looking PS3 or Xbox 360 versions as a point of comparison are liable to be blown away by the update.

Now, all creditors must use the same credit terminology and expressions of rates, so consumers are able to look at the annual percentage rate as a point of comparison.

For context, he points to the legal profession's adoption of email as a point of comparison.

Assuming your city isn't in the list, we suggest finding a comparable sized town in your area of the state as a point of comparison.

** The MSCI World Index (the benchmark) is an unmanaged portfolio of equity securities used as a point of comparison for the strategy.

** Index: The MSCI All Country World Index (the benchmark) is an unmanaged portfolio of equity securities used as a point of comparison for the strategy.

As a point of comparison against the tablet market leader, the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad reportedly sold one million units in its first month; and the iPad 2 sold 2.8 million units in its debut month.

As the prospective teachers wrote about the videos in their online posts, the videos may have served as a point of comparison with which they could document their understanding of physics concepts as well as the process of learning physics.

Their sample included a lot of small OPEC countries, who necessarily had high growth and low interest rates when oil prices were high, as well as a lot of Asian countries that followed the Japanese development model and themselves practiced financial repression, which of course made them pretty useless as points of comparison.

With nobody else as a point of comparison, Lillard showed executives an extra gear of competitiveness that the others didn't.

I said Hleb wasn't the star, compared to schneiderlin, to illustrate how you can't use Hlebs input as point of comparison.

She used another bill she is the lead sponsor on as a point of comparison, incorrectly claiming that while her «Card Check Neutrality» bill has 20 co-sponsors, the preferential rent bill only has 6.

To evaluate gerrymandering of congressional districts, a Markov Chain can, in principle, be used to compare the characteristics of the current districting map with a typical districting of the same state by generating truly random districtings as points of comparison.

Consider the aforementioned barre class as a point of comparison.

Using a metropolitan area as point of comparison allowed us to consider segregation within a smaller geographical area — compared to our state - level analysis — where students can conceivably choose to attend either traditional public or charter schools.

As a point of comparison if you used 500 Hilton Honors Points towards a hotel redemption those points would be worth about $ 2, so you're receiving half of what many consider to be the standard value of Honors points (which is already quite low).

It was almost by accident that it caught my attention, but now I want to go and check some other games» achievements as points of comparison:

The museum cites Warhol as a point of comparison, although not necessarily a helpful one.

To make the results easy to relate to, the researchers used noteworthy historical events as points of comparison, like the 2012 - 2016 drought and the Great Flood of 1862.

Setting measurable targets — in some cases, with baselines provided as a point of comparison — to reduce disaster deaths, economic losses and damage to infrastructure, for instance, will help countries to deal with the impacts of climate change.

We looked at the eight largest metropolitan areas in Colorado as a point of comparison and Denver ranked 3rd in the state and 58th in the country, out of the 380 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) that the Census Bureau acknowledges.

The purpose of this paper is to review the evidence base for three widely - used home visiting programs that have met the federal criteria for evidence - based to highlight the limits to both the internal and external validity of the evidence and to provide a case study as a point of comparison using data from a large, statewide implementation effort.

** Index: The MSCI ACWI ex US Index (the benchmark) is an unmanaged portfolio of equity securities used as a point of comparison for the strategy.

It seems unreasonable to use these city schools as points of comparison, since they are completely different than the cities in which charter schools predominately locate.

It would be interesting if the list would work backwards through mindsets as well so as to serve as a point of comparison with the incoming classes, I suspect a comparison between the mindsets of the classes of 1974, 1984, 2004 and 2014, would be both highly amusing and highly instructive.

As a point of comparison against the tablet market leader, the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad reportedly sold one million units in its first month; and the iPad 2 sold 2.8 million units in its debut month.

Neanderthals were used as a point of comparison for the study because they are the closest relatives of the early humans.

As a point of comparison, the equivalent cap under the Social Security system in the United states is $ 113,700.

The brand last year generated $ 836 per square foot at its U.S. stores, a performance worthy of a luxury brand (as a point of comparison, J.Crew's sales per square foot was $ 588 in the last year, according to eMarketer), even as it continues to open stores.

Bitcoin went on to enjoy a huge run - up; as a point of comparison, in an unrelated auction this January, the marshals sold off 3,813 Bitcoins and netted $ 45 million — or about $ 11,800 per coin.

As a point of comparison, Facebook generated $ 11.8 billion in ad sales in the first quarter, up 50 percent from the year prior.

As another point of comparison, Facebook has an operating margin of nearly 50 %.

As a point of comparison, the smallest fraction of time that the average human being can detect is about one - tenth of a second.

(As a point of comparison, Golden State has lost 11 games against Western Conference foes.)

As a point of comparison, the average person is only willing to pay a dollar to avoid a one in ten million chance of death, so assuming you value your survival over the outcome of the Presidential election, the von Neumann - Morgenstern rationality axioms state that it's irrational to vote if it costs more than a dollar to do so (for instance in terms of gas costs and the cost of your time).

As a point of comparison, McCright also tested the beliefs of conservative white females.

As a point of comparison, this study examined public thinking about a handful of current enhancements, including elective cosmetic surgery, laser eye surgery, skin or lip injections, cosmetic dental procedures to improve one's smile, hair replacement surgery and contraceptive surgery.

As a point of comparison, the size of the shift was statistically comparable to the difference researchers have found between men's and women's self - reported number of heterosexual sex partners (with men reporting more sex partners).

As a point of comparison, a major children's hospital such as ours might refer 150 - 200 patients per year for clinical exome sequencing.

As a point of comparison, at the startup where I worked for 2 years before leaving to found my own, the founders (guys) would dress the same way for board meetings as they usually did: hoodies, tech t - shirt, jeans, sneakers.

I do not own that as a point of comparison though it was described as having some problems with compression and artifacting.

The problematic figure in this table is the percentage of traditional public school students in hypersegregated schools used as the point of comparison.

Most of the charter schools in Indianapolis take Northwest Evaluation Association assessments, which Berends says serve as a point of comparison to local public schools.

Just, you know, as a point of comparison.