Sentences with phrase «as a yardstick with»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

But we must not equate our personal financial decisions with godliness and use them as the yardstick by which to judge — because while we may be able to see what others are spending, we almost always can't tell why.

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.

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 make no pact with Death, oppress no virtuous people, oppress no poor person... I do not use my strength as a yardstick for virtue, and do not say that weakness argues its own futility....

manpower, funds, space) to the exclusion of other ideas, and it allows greater diversity in expression by avoiding the use of the «church vision» as the yardstick of validity instead of the relationship with God.

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.....

Overcoming a side ranked 176th in the world is hardly a yardstick with which to measure success or progress, but there were flashes of promise as the first half came to a close.

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

«They use it as a true yardstick with which to gauge safety, purity and label transparency.»

When measured with an ecological yardstick, it is — fish stocks are healthy and the fishery is certified by the Marine Stewardship Council as consistently meeting rigorous biological standards.

This just reinforces my conclusion that Spellcheck is a reincarnated grumpy spinster with a yardstick to be doled out as punishment.

After a few repetitions of narrated jumps, the yardstick jumping with bridging can be done silently as the class recites the 7s aloud.

We can check this by comparing the federal yardstick with the one used byFlorida as part of its state accountabilitysystem.

Benchmarking, as it's called, is only useful if you compare your performance with an appropriate yardstick.

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.

As an integrating measurement made with high accuracy, freshwater content (salinity anomaly over a layer) is the most sensitive yardstick available for observing the global fingerprint of a changing hydrological cycle.

Richard Burger, regulatory partner at RPC, says: «The number of prosecutions achieved by the regulators with their new powers will be seen as the yardstick of their success.

No doubt in this sense successful Article 8 claims will be the exception rather than the rule; but to treat exceptionality as the yardstick of success is to confuse effect with cause.»

If we use Amazon as a yardstick for example, $ 349.99 will get you a stainless steel watch face with a standard black leather strap.

However, with the advent of LEDs and other types of lighting, that yardstick has become meaningless, and as a result, a bulb's brightness is now listed as lumens, which is a more accurate measurement of how bright it is, rather than how much energy it consumes.

He / she also participates as a team with the maintenance personnel to guarantee that the community attains quality maintenance yardsticks fixed by the company.