Sentences with phrase «as the yardstick by»

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.

... 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.

There is a great weight of responsibility on the shoulders of Motorola's 10.1 - inch tablet: people are using it as a yardstick by which to measure the success of Android tablets against the Apple iPad, a comparison that isn't completely fair (not that you care about ethics when handling over your cash) and one that is likely to shift dramatically during the Xoom's life.

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

Yes, lets take his «inspired by real scientists» speeches as the yardstick by which to judge the actual scientific evidence.

I still use that client as the yardstick by which I measure my own parenting skills.

Not exact matches

«We often use that service as the thin edge of the wedge,» says Kureluk, pointing out that this software gives Yardstick the opportunity to upsell other products and services to its customers, such as the «e-learning» software tools developed by a firm that Yardstick bought earlier this year and sold online.

Mr. Agrawal also had a distinct idea how he program's success would be measured: not by number of jobs or startups generated — a typical yardstick — but equity value created by CDL companies as they raised money.

For sure, this is smartness, in the secular meaning of the word, as measured by the yardstick of achievement in the secular realm.

Jesus doesn't measure sucess by the same yardstick as we do.

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.

As if he's some sort of yardstick to which others should go by.

Some of my friends in the media vigorously attack Nigerian journalists and statesmen who openly commend the Ghanaian administration for the strides made so far.Chief Dele Momodu recently said this about of our President «People don't know why I love Ghana so much and the current leader in particular.He is modest, not flamboyant as we see of other leaders», on BBC few days ago Nigerians interviewed used the positive signs in Ghana as appropriate yardstick to attack their government, a documentary going round in the international media exposes the lackadaisical performance of the Nigerian government using the positive performance recorded under John Mahama.The latest BBC reports on the Nigerian economy captures that the cost of living in Nigeria continue to soar and in June, accelerated to 16.5 % the highest rate in almost 11 years.Gari which is supposed to be the cheapest commodity in the country can not be afforded by the poor.

«I think you're getting a little fixated by vote shares at general elections and using these as the definitive yardstick of the health or otherwise of a particular political party.»

Albany historian and former New York State Assemblyman Jack McEneny has one yardstick by which he suggests sizing up any politician: «You're only as good as your last mistake.»

Currently the major yardstick by which postdocs are judged is their publication track record, as there generally are no formal performance appraisals for postdocs.

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.

There is also an odor object version of «banana,» a combination of the inherent pleasantness of the molecules released by the fruit (as measured by Sobel's yardstick) and our subjective mental state when we encounter them.

So a good rule of thumb is to use marriage as a yardstick: while a boyfriend should not «lead» his girlfriend or potential partner to the level of a husband and wife — which is to say he is not yet charged by God to lead, cover, provide and protect — he can absolutely encourage her already present devotion and natural gifts.

By that yardstick, Winstead, who turns up less than a dozen times, may as well not even exist.

The characters are archetypes and, by Ozu standards, thinly drawn... but Elysium is not only a blockbuster but a political fable, and whether your yardstick is Michael Bay or Sergei Eisenstein, it works as both.

For decades, the S.A.T. and the American College Program test have been used by college - admissions officials as a «common yardstick» to determine if students from New England boarding schools, one - room schools, and everywhere in between are ready...

While NAEP, the Nation's Report Card, scores are the gold standard for measuring student achievement and serve as a yardstick for state comparisons, NAEP results are generally not known by students and their families, who rely on their state test results to know how they are performing.

Our Six Essential Questions provide a yardstick by which to measure our progress, keep us focused as we grow, and — most important — help us keep the promises we make to our students and their families.

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

When we adjusted the gains made by students in each school to take into account a wide variety of individual and peer - group background characteristics, such as ethnicity, English language - learner status, family income, and student mobility rates, the yardstick's performance actually worsened.

MD. 1.1: Measure the length of an object by selecting and using the appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, and measuring tape.

As cited by Porter, the same thing happens when U.S. hospitals «do whatever it takes to keep patients alive at least 31 days after an operation, to beat Medicare's 30 - day survival yardstick.»

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

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..

By using the S&P STRIDE indices as a benchmark, those who adopt retirement income provisions into an IPS receive an appropriate yardstick against which they can gauge their progress.

This yardstick is obviously the general experience in securities as measured by the Dow.

But you can use the resulting present value figure that you get by discounting your cash flows back at the long - term Treasury rate as a common yardstick just to have a standard of measurement across all businesses.»

By now, you're more than likely acutely aware of Popcap's Bejeweled series — the gem matching game is arguably the yardstick as to which all modern puzzle games are compared to and aspire to match the success of.

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.

He was highly respected as an artist and his art remains the yardstick by which English painters can measure themselves and their work.

At the same time they are real at least in as much as they are measurable by wide scale (beyond the local), sustained (more than decadal) physical, economic and social yardsticks (real people suffered due to the LIA).

OTOH, Tom Karl's project seeks to bootstrap information about past and future measurements at a large number of sites by setting up a small, optimal network which can be used as a yardstick to check the larger USHCN and the US CO-OP networks.

... the application of the Ramsden v. Dyson, L.R. 1 H.L. 129 principle — whether you call it proprietary estoppel, estoppel by acquiescence or estoppel by encouragement is really immaterial — requires a very much broader approach which is directed rather at ascertaining whether, in particular individual circumstances, it would be unconscionable for a party to be permitted to deny that which, knowingly, or unknowingly, he has allowed or encouraged another to assume to his detriment than to inquiring whether the circumstances can be fitted within the confines of some preconceived formula serving as a universal yardstick for every form of unconscionable behaviour.

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.

Do not make quotes auto insurance as the only point for identification ofe of the many yardsticks to measure a company by.

Average global employee turnover rates are predicted to rise to 23.4 per cent by 2018, but there's little use using this figure as a yardstick for your own business.

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