Sentences with phrase «as a yardstick»

«There are so many ways to be human, but all too often our own modern and mainly urban societies are used as the yardstick for what is universally human.

Hypothetical retirement income is expressed in index points, and can be used as a yardstick for systematic withdrawal strategies — expanding the role of S&P STRIDE from wealth accumulation benchmark to decumulation benchmark.

Alfred Jensen and Brice Marden were my 2nd, but in my minority opinion (and it is just that, no one else will agree) neither of the latter two painters can hold a candle to Thomas Nozkowski, if one doesn't use money as the yardstick of quality, which it absolutely is not.

... Legal change has been constrained because marriage serves as the yardstick by which law reformers measure other adult relationships as worthy of mutual rights and obligations in the family arena.

When metrics aren't serving as a yardstick for performance, team members make better decisions.

If there is a satisfactory explanation for the difference then the estimate may cease to be useful as a yardstick with which to measure reasonableness.

Hence, a flat yield curve can be seen as a yardstick of ineffective policy normalization focusing on the «wrong part of the term structure.»

With marriage as the yardstick, the relationship between parents with a child in common does not seem worthy of a legal status.

Their brightness is so consistently intense that supernovae have been used as «standard candles» or gauges, acting as yardsticks indicating astronomical distances.

Since its launch in 2000, the PISA test has emerged as the yardstick by which countries measure changes in their performance over time and the level of their performance relative to that of other countries.

Keeping the Tiago's cutthroat entry - level price as a yardstick, the Tigor is off by quite a margin.

If there was a satisfactory explanation for the difference, then the estimate might cease to be useful as a yardstick with which to measure reasonableness.

No doubt in that sense, successful Art 8 claims would be the exception rather than the rule; but to treat exceptionality as the yardstick of success was to confuse effect with cause.

Qantas, the biggest ASX - listed company to make the top 100 using total shareholder returns as the yardstick, was also the biggest surprise, with the airline delivering an eye - catching one - year return for investors of 151 per cent.

If you are using amount of education as a yardstick for «smarter» then yes, I am «smarter» than most people by simple statistics.

While the linguist takes the parlance of average literate adults as the yardstick of usage, Gwynne's grammarian balances it with the best that has been said and written, John Bull and Samuel Johnson.

I never claimed memory as the yardstick for personhood — if that were the case, we would all be toast.

The Western countries are increasingly using their view of human rights concept as a yardstick to judge developing countries and to deal with economic and trade relations to extend development assistance.

I'll measure the distance from vertical (using a doorknob as my yardstick) and stand just outside the period I calculate using the amplitude and measured distance, while praying to the doorknob.

By the way, number of wins as a yardstick is an unfair comparison.

Mourhino won the CL with both Porto and Inter but am sure even his most adoring fan will never qualify both teams as GREAT or memorable... PG's Cl winning squad will go down in the annals of the game as a yardstick for what and how football should be played.....

Demolishing many myths about this period Badger shows that Roosevelt energised Washington and inspired bankers, industrialists, farmers and ordinary Americans, and took as his yardstick the politics of the possible under the guidance of principle.

It costs basically the same to prohibit it federally as on state level, even if you try to use DEA enforcement costs as a yardstick.

Memorisation is being mistaken for learning and high academic records as a yardstick for measuring the ability of students» creativity.

However, again it's worth using the Conservative expenses episode as a yardstick here.

314 Action uses dollars raised as a yardstick to measure a candidate's viability.

Astronomers have figured out an innovative way to determine the age of the most common stars in the universe — sun - like cool stars with a relatively low mass — by using their rates of spin as a yardstick.

As Bonior says, «You can choose to use others» experiences as a yardstick, or you can believe your standards are valid in and of themselves.»

So in that way it's really interesting, both as a «historical» game, but also as a yardstick for how much the series has changed since it first began.

Outcomes have replaced insights as the yardstick of learning, while standardized tests are replacing human judgment as the means of assessment.

Therefore, using that federally mandated data as the yardstick for school accountability makes sense.

For years now, educators have looked to international tests as a yardstick to measure how well U.S. students are learning 21st - century skills compared to their peers.

GT3 RS wont be out of place either as something cheaper and naturally aspirated as a yardstick.

THAT EVENING I arrived back at the hotel convinced I'd saved the best for last, and the next morning, when we're out again, I keep returning to the Twingo as the yardstick with which to judge the others.

Harris said Nissan's design team used the BMW 535i and the Mercedes - Benz 300 E as yardsticks in creating the J30.

Using the old Colts as a yardstick, the Mirage - Colt - Summit should have better than average trouble - free driving.

For anybody who follows Joe Konrath's blog, you'll know that the figure that keeps being batted around as a yardstick for indie authors selling well is those who are selling 1,000 books or more a month.

Using income as the yardstick, not a specific number of sales, is essential: Publishers might otherwise be able to game the clause by offering one - cent e-books the way they've gamed existing clauses by using e-books and print - on - demand..

It's not too difficult to assess this if you take just the KDP Fund as the yardstick, although this does ignore completely the cash paid out to trad publishers on Kindle Unlimited.

Many institutional investors who invest primarily in Nasdaq stocks use this index as a yardstick by which to measure the performance of their portfolios.

In keeping with Montier's absolute value philosophy, we investigated several dynamic allocation strategies based on reducing or eliminating exposure to markets as they get more or less expensive, using the real earnings yield as our yardstick.

[1] Some insurance companies will waive breed restrictions on dogs with CGCs, and many states have passed resolutions supporting and encouraging CGC certification as a yardstick for canine manners and responsible dog ownership.

First, a note on scale: In archival photos of Egyptian ruins and monuments, there's generally a little dude and / or camel in there functioning as a yardstick.

Palazzolo's play of illusion suggests memory, longing, distances, and loss, yet is tempered by reminders of a present physical reality such as the yardstick and paint, seen as simply paint.

That selecting Temps as the yardstick for the UNFCCC Goals is seriously flawed.