Sentences with phrase «as the yardstick of»

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

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

For decades, top value investors and market brainiacs have embraced the highly - regarded CAPE index as one of the most reliable yardsticks for weighing under versus overvalued markets.

«That said, the amount of traffic going to other services should not be the main yardstick of success for Google because the goal of a search engine is to deliver relevant results to users as quickly as possible.

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.

Belief in the sign of Jonah (3 days and 3 nights as per Mat 12:40) may, however, be of vital importance, serving as a yardstick for Jesus to «measure» our faith in Him when He comes to «separate the sheep from the goats».

I am not trying to prove that the Qur» an is the word of God using scientific knowledge as a yard stick because any yardstick is supposed to be more superior than what is being checked or verified.

We have there a valid yardstick to apply to our lives as individual Christians, local congregations and as missionary people of God in the world.

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.

It spoke of a «non-imperialistic evangelism, a faithful evangelism that aims at the transformations and permeation of societies from within; looks to the kingdom that is coming as the recapitulation of all things in Jesus Christ».21 Melbourne spoke of the kingdom as the goal of mission, the poor as a new missionary yardstick, and the Church as an agent of mission and a sacrament of the kingdom.

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

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.....

Not too long ago I used to use them as the yardstick for our team in terms of balance and strength in depth.

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.

... 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.

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

Even so, you can use them as one of the yardsticks in determining how your child's development has progressed relative to other children of the same age.

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.»

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

Bell and Webster of Oklahoma State say that the NRC and U.S. News surveys have had little impact on their university's research policies not because they fared badly but because the yardstick — the research reputation of its faculty — was seen as tangential to the university's main mission of educating students.

«In the last few years we've seen the introduction of targeted therapies, also known as precision medicine,» says allergist Mark Boguniewicz, MD, ACAAI member and lead author on a soon - to - be-published Atopic Dermatitis Yardstick.

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.

Indoor - air scientists have always used this CO2 as a harmless yardstick for measuring the staleness of indoor air.

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.

For openers, because the Oscars have been around so long they serve as a one - of - a-kind yardstick, an indicator of what the Hollywood community values now and in the past.

It's as if a yardstick can be 36 inches long in most of the world, but 3 inches long in Tennessee.

The yardstick follows this pattern of jumps, touching on each anchor, as well as on each multiple of 7.

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.

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.

«We want to say (to federal officials), «Look, because of the transition (to Common Core), we need elbow room, and there is no way to measure progress from last year to this year, so (let us) use participation rates (in the test) as the yardstick,»» Chief Deputy State Superintendent Richard Zeiger said.

To help schools and communities look together at these goals and create a plan of action, the IDRA has outlined Six Goals of Educational Equity that school personnel and communities can use as a yardstick to measure their progress and as a lightning rod to galvanize change.

The department's original plan, as reported in the last edition of Schools Week, was to extend the meals to every child of a family that claimed any part of universal credit, something charities argued would «poison» national data on disadvantaged pupils, for which free meals eligibility is used as an important yardstick.

Those results, among the first trickling out from states» newly revamped yardsticks, paint a picture of a K - 12 system that remains hesitant to differentiate between the best and the weakest performers — as well as among all those in the middle doing a solid job who still have room to improve.

It has served as a national yardstick of student achievement since 1969.

Those who choose criteria as a yardstick for everything else establish an arbitrary point of standardization where verification need not be feared.

Bradley Scott, Ph.D., director of the IDRA SCCE, gives an overview of the six goals and discusses how school personnel and communities can use them as a yardstick to measure their progress and as a lightning rod to galvanize change.

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

That law relies more on absolute comparisons of test scores, so it sometimes seems as if Ben Franklin High School, which accepts only high - achieving students, is measured on the same yardstick as schools in the state - run Recovery School District, where the average student starts well below grade level.

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

The sum of the different improvements made to this engine has produced a gain of 20hp and 40Nm over Mégane R26.R which itself emerged as the yardstick in the world of performance hatches.

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..

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.