Sentences with phrase «book measures up to»

It will be a while before another book measures up to this one.

Not exact matches

This book has been emphasizing the importance of remembering that we're human and therefore we often make mistakes and fail to measure up to our own goals as parents.

- pick up the book «liquid church» by pete ward if you want to look at what a church might look like without the need for a tape measure.

In my book I wanted to remind people that sometimes being told that we are loved really means: «My love for you is so strong that I wish I could suppress all the bits about you that don't measure up to my standards.

«As someone interested in baby experiments what struck me is that Experimenting with Babies is really a book about child development, though in a sign of our times of anxious parenting Gallagher has to issue a disclaimer that if your child doesn't «measure up» you shouldn't panic.

But the group notes Cuomo's order comes after the Legislature failed to take up measures that would make it easier to register and to vote in New York, including early voting and electronic poll books.

It was too easy for those measures to end up on the statute book.»

In the book, psychologist Richard Lynn of the University of Ulster in the United Kingdom and political scientist Tatu Vanhanen of the University of Tampere in Finland searched the published literature to come up with measures of average IQ for 81 countries.

Some scientists scramble up equatorial peaks to measure melting glaciers; others scour dry African lakebeds for sediment that reads like a talking science book.

• Using the protractor, measure the angle where the ramp meets the carpet when the ramp is set up using the shortest stack of books needed for the tub to slip.

They were selected at random to either book a follow - up appointment within one to three weeks, which is routine today, or to perform a home pregnancy test which measures levels of hCG in the urine after one to three weeks.

With off - the - shelf shootout and showdown scenes that differ from any other over-the-top action fare only in their gloomy lighting, «The Punisher» can't begin to measure up to the popcorn vengeance of Mel Gibson's Payback or the moody, provocative, primal reprisal of Steven Soderbergh's The Limey In fact, even the cheap, cheesy 1989 B - movie adaptation of the same Marvel comic book (with dramatically lumbering Dolph Lungren in the title role) was more entertainingly bad than this picture.

As Yong Zhao observed in his book Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization, «The American public, short of other easy - to - understand measures, seems to have accepted the notion that test scores are an accurate measure of the quality of their schools» (2009, 33).

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But Cohort B, consisting of students who were significantly behind their peers in January on measures of alphabet recognition, letter sounds, spelling, and word recognition, essentially caught up to Cohort A after receiving 40 Book Buddies sessions.

You know, the companies that authors paid to print books that, presumably, didn't measure up to «legitimate» publishers» standards?

Amazon will display your book next to similar best sellers, so your book must measure up to succeed.

The whole idea of the Kindle Voyage is to deliver what Jeff Bezos calls «the thinnest design, highest resolution and highest contrast display, reimagined page turns, and all of the features that readers love about Kindle — books in seconds, no eyestrain or glare, readability in bright sunlight, and battery life measured in weeks, not hours — Kindle Voyage is crafted from the ground up for readers.»

I doubt eBooks will ever measure up to their paper counterparts in my book (sorry), but anything that closes the gap is a step forward for writers and readers.

Our readers love Clare Mackintosh and look forward to her next book: The success of her first novel, I Let You Go, made Clare Mackintosh wonder whether her second effort would measure up at all.

The initial reviews of the iPad from many media sources praised its ability to deliver digital books and video quickly, saying it measures up well against other E-Book readers, including the Kindle.

But I was determined to go, and my mule - self kicked in, spouting a slew of sailing and weather terms, battering them over the head with all the things I'd learned in my sailing books, and with some things I'd made up, for good measure.

The remarkable data the book lays out and the measures it uses are like a spirit level which we can hold up to compare the conditions of different societies.

That measure would indicate that PRH plans to incorporate their planned changes very slowly, as books picked up for publication at this year's event won't hit shelves for as much as a year, if not longer.

By seeing how your book and its price measures up, you can get a realistic picture of what needs to happen next.

A book is a book is a book, and when readers are browsing the cyber shelves, your book cover needs to measure up to your interior content.

It's sleeker, and in some ways, more comfortable to use than the Editors» Choice Asus Transformer Book T100HA, but it doesn't quite measure up on specs and features.

We may be measuring trad - pub books by a higher standard, but do they really live up to it?

Your proposal should include a summary of your professional experience as well as an explanation of how your book will contribute to the scholarly literature in a particular area and measure up against other scholarly texts in the same genre.

Measuring just 6.9» x 4.9» x.5», it holds up to 80 average sized books at a time.

Before I am willing to say that ebook technology can measure up to paper book technology, I need to see the companies developing ebooks lay out a clear plan to ensure that their books and any notes we take on them have a legitimate shot of still being around and readable in a thousand years.

Focusing specifically on TFG, its long - term 12.4 % RoE certainly justifies a 1.0 price / book multiple — I can't predict when, but I am confident it will happen — as investor sentiment finally improves, TFG's NAV & AUM hopefully continue to increase, management continues buying back shares, management potentially considers & implements more radical value enhancement / realisation measures, a possible external acquirer / activist shows up, etc. — meanwhile, as I said, investors can focus on the compounding.

For a test run i booked at a hotel i have been to on a number of occasions to see how things measured up.Everyhting worked great from the start to the Concierge and follow up.

SUMMARY: This declaration is based in large measure on my book, Carbon - Free and Nuclear - Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy, as well as on research that I have done since that time up to the time of preparing this declaration.

Here's what is required (leaving aside Theresa May's electorally hamstrung inability to deliver much of it): The entire cabinet and every business leader the government's black book can muster, on stage for the launch of the new strategy; an explicit declaration that this, full decarbonization of the economy, is the post-Brexit economic strategy; clear and attractive retail policies, such as a diesel scrappage scheme, tax breaks for green investment, new apprenticeships, a green home building program; an open invitation to all opposition party leaders to share a platform to support the plan with a declaration that while they may not agree on every component they fully endorse the over-arching goal; a willingness to shame those party leaders who play party politics and refuse to turn up; a fortnight - long program where each day sees a new cabinet member explain how the plan will transform parts of the economy; a Royal Commission on the flaws of GDP as an economic measure and the viability of alternative quality of life metrics; and, yes, a brave assertion that carbon intensive industries will have to transform or be scaled back, backed by a decarbonization adaptation fund to help affected communities respond to this global trend.

The rule book, formally the «implementation guidelines» for a pact that has no sanctions for non-compliance, will define ways to measure and report greenhouse gas emissions, and how to review and step up national actions every five years.