Sentences with phrase «end of the yardstick»

Molecules ranked at one end of the yardstick stank to high heaven.

At the opposite end of the yardstick, Chevrolet showed a «freshened» Trax subcompact crossover.

Good to Know: To make your own beam compass, duct tape a pencil to one end of a yardstick with the point about 1/2 an inch past the edge.

Not exact matches

Better yet, in a world of never - ending to - do lists it provides a yardstick of when to consider the day done and go home.»

The health of the economy at the end of four years is a second yardstick by which Buffett said he'd evaluate the Republican Trump administration.

Uber told stockholders that gross bookings, the key yardstick of demand for ride services, rose 11 percent to $ 9.71 billion in the period that ended in September, compared with $ 8.74 billion in the second quarter, said the people.

The closer an odor was to the pleasant end of Sobel's yardstick, the longer the mice spent smelling it.

Consider the breathless, reserved way the elder Affleck shoots the storming of a barricaded old house, the grisly discovery in an upstairs bathroom, and the product of a series of violent acts that ends, a few scenes later, with a conversation between young Patrick and crusty Bressant about regret, forgiveness, and the impossibility of doing the right thing when there's no reliable yardstick for measuring propriety.

Borrowed money as a percentage of investment assets — an important yardstick known as the leverage ratio — was recently 29 %, modestly above the average 25 % for taxable closed - end bond funds.

This can be all done with time sheets in 6 minute increments... We may not like it, we may resent billable hour quotas, we may resent the lack of trust; but in the end, the degree to which lawyers are knowledge workers should not be measured with the effective executive yardstick.