Sentences with phrase «as comparison points»

The 2 World Elite cards are pretty comparable as comparison points.

Indexes are used as comparison points, or benchmarks, against which investment managers measure their performance.

And part of the problem is that there's no «real» or «natural» price for CEO labour (or for anything else), nothing to serve as a comparison point to figure out if such labour is being sold at the «right» price.

With other recent offerings like the content - rich Injustice 2 as a comparison point, there's clearly a happy medium to be found in the genre between offline and competitive fighters.

As a comparison point, CFRA has a 12 - month price target of $ 100 on Medtronic.

As a comparison point, this is substantially lower than the 70/30 split that Apple has with its developers (where the developers get 70 % of sales and Apple gets 30 %).

I see that you do not like the year 1988 as the comparison point.

However as a comparison point, in Vermont, NerdWallet rated Co-operative Insurance Companies as the cheapest car insurance for Good Drivers and Retired Drivers and Geico for Young Drivers.

As a comparison point, the XZ2 Compact's 12.1 mm thickness is almost 3 mm thicker than last year's XZ1 Compact.

You might have previously heard of «stock Android» either as the OS a device is running or as a comparison point.

This model served as the comparison point for all other analysis comparison, and it did not fit the data well (χ 2 = 5215.41, df = 1,274, RMSEA = 0.12, CFI = 0.89, and SRMR = 0.11).

As a comparison point, I can tell you that most real estate systems have award programs that start to kick in when an agent closes about 7 or 8 transactions.

Not exact matches

Finally, and perhaps most counterintuitively, Achor points out that comparison dressed up as praise actually also sets a low bar for excellence.

And as Jon Nathanson (now Slate columnist) pointed out in his exhaustive breakdown of the economics of infomercials on Priceonomics, in comparison, the U.S. network and cable industry was estimated at just $ 97 billion in 2013.

That comes as long - term investment returns from U.S. public pensions have hit their lowest point in more than a decade and a half, according to Wilshire Trust Universe Comparison Service.

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.

Mortgage planner and rate comparison website founder Robert McLister says the increase is «unusual» as the benchmark rate hasn't seen a jump of 45 basis points or more since March 2010.

A few months ago, the blogosphere was filled with amazing comparisons of Apple's size to not just other companies — including the combined market caps of Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon at one point — but entire countries and industries as the Things Apple Is Worth More Than tumblr details.

As a point of comparison, the researchers also included a group of participants who had posters randomly assigned to them.

She noted that with the $ 15 minimum wage (a frequent point of comparison in the discussion) Safeway chose to absorb the cost of the minimum wage instead of cutting jobs or passing the costs on to consumers, but that made Seattle Safeway stores» profit margin half as much as stores in other locations.

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

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.

As a basis for comparison, between 1980 and 1995, household credit grew, on average, by around 3 3/4 percentage points faster than nominal GDP.

By showcasing the most witty, joyful, bullet - pointed versions of people's lives, and inviting constant comparisons in which we tend to see ourselves as the losers, Facebook appears to exploit an Achilles» heel of human nature.

It was widely hailed by the professional urban planners and architects when completed, but as Corbin points out, it's a part of Boston, perhaps the part, that residents love to hate, a place that made the old elevated freeway that cut across Boston seem positively organic by comparison.

Mystics of all faiths point us to the true place of meeting which is in the presence of God, where comparisons become if not odious at least irrelevant, as the mystics sense the Divine Mystery, who is both the source and sustainer of all life and the most intimate presence in the heart and life of the believer.

If the problem now envisaged were to be expressed by a formal comparison,, it might be said that the beginning of mankind according to scientific anthropology is a beginning in indigence and vacuity as the lowest point of a rising curve, whereas the biblical and ecclesiastical curve has a beginning in plenitude and the line of «development» descends from it.

If the comparison is to be a just one we must, at every point of resemblance, take this difference into account, But when all allowance is made the fact remains that the analogies between the two systems arc so numerous, and so compelling, that reason forbids us to regard the parallel as either purely superficial or a mere matter of chance.

As I shall mention below, this point indicates an interesting comparison with Peirce's idea of intelligibility as triadic and intuition as pre-intelligiblAs I shall mention below, this point indicates an interesting comparison with Peirce's idea of intelligibility as triadic and intuition as pre-intelligiblas triadic and intuition as pre-intelligiblas pre-intelligible.

I also was powerless in regard to my old nature it had power over me.i came to the point that i needed to do something because i felt like spiritually i was dying and again it was by faith in Jesus Christ that changed me and that i admitted that i could nt live the christian life in my strength.Since then i have continued to walk by faith daily and i know what it means to be saved in this life we have power over our old nature through Christ that strengths us Personally i think this is a major reason why many christians are not growing and maturing as they should.Many people are struggling in there faith that is not how it is meant to be the word says we are overcomers more than conquerers through Christ that strengthens us.If you are struggling are you walking by faith or just doing good christians works that have no power to change your life Just admit that you cant do it in your strength let him empower you by his holy spirit to do what you cant.It has been a hard road to get here but i am never going back to living by works when you find the truth there is no comparison brentnz

These were also Chris Clarke's interests; he was taking Whitehead's views as giving points of comparison for the different view of space which he was developing.

And I don't necessarily disagree, I'm just saying that @jc's point would be more arguable, perhaps, as a weak analogy fallacy rather that the ad hominem s / he chose, since the crux of the argument is the comparison, not the person making the argument.

You said, «You may take it as an insult, but I would suggest that what you are pointing out is actually a weak analogy fallacy, i.e. the comparison between the evidence for Jesus, et al and the evidence for the tooth fairy is not a valid comparison.»

But, this even points to the danger that phenomenological structures may become as superficially empty and purely formal as are anthropological comparisons.

Ok, I did mention it by way of comparison to Society (which, you are right, I forgot about, sorry — I was just trying to point out that legal recognition isn't taken as an absolute).

If I wanted to be a disingenuous putz, I could pretend that comparison meant something (as if the bodies of a high schooler and a grown - ass professional athlete wouldn't be markedly different), and I could point out that Jones sure had a noticeable dip in production when he turned 32 and then suddenly got much better (as if that kind of variance doesn't happen in baseball all the freaking time).

Again the comparison with Walcott but this season Theo has finally shown his worth, and as someone pointed out; Theo has 7 goals this season, whereas The Ox has only scored 8 in his whole career at Arsenal.

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

In comparison to recent scandals in intercollegiate athletics, the offenses Smith felt had been committed, such as feeding extra meals to prospects who came to West Point for physicals, telling B - squad coaches to recruit and not counting visits from prep school recruits against the NCAA - allowed number, seemed minor.

Was not analyzing the Manchester ss and don't really care much there but from a footballing point of view and from the words of MR wenger I understand the logic I do nt read what the media thinks neither My comment above addresses the issues we face in comparison to the two previous seasons adding in our re enforcements The 22 million question «Are the Arsenal capable of achieving 85 point come next May???» I believed we were strong last year and said it here that the team was strong and together and used the very words that MR wenger used cohesion but as the season unfolded the cracks showed up at the very beginning when we lost to west ham and it got worse as we lost pole position and every thing around us came tumbling down by February last season here comes another important question did they know and understand what happened do they know what to do this term to avoid the very same faith well we wait and see Irregardless of what happens I will support Arsenal and will keep analyzing every match my way until May so Good luck Arsenal with your endeavors and hope you do well against Liverpool keep the fight on keep the heads up and give them a good beating

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

Sure, a schedule that included Colorado Mines, Colorado College, and Denver wasn't judged to be as difficult as that of Minnesota, which won the Western (Big Ten) that season, but CSU's SRS score (a points - based team - comparison tool explained here) was No. 6 in the country.

By comparison, the NHL assigns point values to regulation wins and overtime / shoot out losses, giving you strange record lines like the Penguins» 15 -11-3 record as of Thursday.

As your league comparison shows, Arsenal are now 11 points better off than at the same stage last season and Man Utd are now 8 points worse.

Well, I don't know if that is the point you are trying to make by underscoring the Espnfc statistical comparison of Lacazette's stats as against that of Giroud whose stats appeared to have been rated lower to that of Lacazette who got a higher stats ranking scores by the Espnfc Commentariat.

Well, I don't know if that is the point you are trying to make by underscoring the Espnfc statistical comparison of Lava setter's Lac a setters stats as against that of Giroud whose stats appeared to have been rated lower to that of Lacazette who got a higher stats ranking scores by the Espnfc Commentariat.

A six point gain and three more wins suggests clear improvement, as does the comparison of how close we came to those above and below us.

I couldn't help but see in him a personification of education these days — our focus on test - scores, assessment, standards, ranking and comparison, as well as a correlating misunderstanding of the importance of play (at one point in the film, a boy confronts this adult: «But they are toys!

«she also would not offer a water birth if there was any sign of meconium once my waters broke» Just as a point of comparison, in England you would be transfered to the hospital if the fluid showed meconium, not just risked out of the waterbirth part.

Wave is making waves in US market, you should feel it to believe what it's made off... Wave is the pinnacle of strollers, it's no comparison, my honest suggestion is not to compare with any other stroller out there as none can stand for it's design and quality If the price ticker of $ 1,299.00 is holding you back, please do your math, this price includes (Chassis, Bassinet, Carrycot, Adapters, Rain covers, Bug nets and more) and they were also throwing away footmuff or if not Albee rewards, it's like you are getting more 10 % back in reward points.