Sentences with phrase «good barometer for»

«Even if you don't end up booking your trip immediately, leaning toward «vacation» over «remodel» is a good barometer for determining how important an updated home actually is to you.

Prevention The key to keeping your dog's breath smelling fresh (or at least as fresh as any dog's breath smells) is to keep your dog healthy in all other aspects of his life, as breath is a good barometer for dog health.

But a 620 FICO score is a pretty good barometer for many VA lenders.

The stock market tends to have volatile performances in times of any economic uncertainties, but that is why it is a good barometer for the economy.

I might be pretty good barometer for this experiment, because I have a large backlist, I haven't released anything new in over a year, and I didn't do any BookBubs or other promo in June or July (May was the last one I did.)

As one of the most esteemed auto magazines in the world, Car and Driver's annual «Top 10 Cars» is always a good barometer for automakers to see if one — or maybe two — of their vehicles made it to the list.

OLIVER GAVIN, NO. 4 CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R «In a funny way, Watkins Glen should be a pretty good barometer for how things will go at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.

The event should be a good barometer for the company and the team to gauge how ready the car is when it makes its WRC debut later that year.

Some teens understood the feeds as curated and effortful — not a good barometer for the overall happiness of the feed's owner.

«Fibrils are remarkably strong and, as such, are a good barometer for this method's ability to form two - dimensional structures,» observes Seeman.

Cuomo is, of course, correct in saying out that he can multi-task, but in previous years the way he's allocated the might of his bully pulpit has been a good barometer for what issues will gain traction and which ones will fall to the wayside.

Despite the premier's statement that,» it isn't the price of oil in Texas that is causing the real problem,» I would argue that it was the lion's share of the problem, or at least a good barometer for the problem.

With the «chatbot gold rush» now in full swing, Facebook's launch partner should be a good barometer for the success of Messenger bots so far.

Glassdoor.com, a website on which users can anonymously review their employers, offers a good barometer for employee sentiment at Zynga: Only 49 percent of reviewers say they would recommend working at Zynga to their friends, compared with 93 percent at Facebook and 84 percent at LinkedIn.

As such, they're also a good barometer for your brand's cool factor, or its imminent dilution, depending on your marketing strategy.

But the first of those doesn't come out until Halloween, and until then, these rankings are the best barometers for it.

In games like Norwich, Swansea, Manchester United, Sunderland and Stoke both of these issues have been evident to varying degrees and this is playing into the idea of the second narrative: had we not hit the woodwork so much, had we not had lapses at the back, had we taken one or two more chances then Liverpool would be higher in the table, with a higher points count, and at the end of the day, that is the best barometer for a club, isn't it?

Net worth is one of the best barometers for measuring financial health.

There's no better barometer for an area's economic health than your local coffee shop.

Marks terms the job loss «a short - term phenomenon,» while Haddigan points out that a rising population is a better barometer for retail.

Not exact matches

There are two business - world barometers for clean - meat products that are make - or - break as well: price and scale.

Our budget barometer breaks it down as a percent of the economy (GDP), a better metric than dollars for comparing across history.

Stock market indices (or indexes) are commonly utilized as benchmarks to relate investment performance as well as serve as a barometer for the overall health of an economy.

Republicans should be happy to learn this Truth that has brought America to the state of Light for Obama to pick on it.One thing good about American Democracy is it is «truly participating» and lasting with lessons for others to follow in modernity to tap blue horizons of life.Those blue horizons just do not end in economics that has many minds to tap the financial barometer of the country self educative in working of its affluent class and ordinary class both domestically and internationally relating to perfection with budgeting of money in economic plans that have been existing and are in the process to move charismatically with a tide over where bipartisan element also comes into play well integrated to test the mettle of the top leader of the country who has to stand over the continuous democratic element evolving of the country both in economic as well as inherently in spiritual terms for the good of the people at large mixing with the culture of exchange that has humanity behind it to survive??

The movie remains in many ways a cultural barometer of the way Christianity is perceived in America, for better and worse.

Of course, sacks are not the only barometer for good defensive linemen, but, let me tell you buddy, they are always good to have.

The good and the wise will tell us that FA Cups no longer count as a barometer for success.

Long considered an extremely reliable barometer of demand, wages show that the job market, though better for science Ph.D. s than for the mythic average worker, still isn't all that hot.

While I still do regular pregnancy tests since I can't use my period as a barometer, this was without a doubt the best decision I made for my mental and physical health.

We lift each other up, we push each other forward when the road gets tough, we cheer for each other when the dreams are becoming reality and we «check on each other» to always stay grounded and humble on our life's journey... Nobody is better than you and you're not better than others... Always remember that... Today you have it all, tomorrow you might loose everything, but the number of people who love you and got your back when you're up or down shall be your barometer to how well you're getting this thing called «life».

A prelude to the Oscars, the Eddies are considered a barometer for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences» Best Picture and Best Editing categories.

The festival has long been known as a barometer for which actors have the best chance to clean up during awards season.

Without a musical or Martin Scorsese film in the mix this year to buck any trends, we're left to fall back on the most reliable barometer of them all: And the Oscar for sound mixing in a movie most likely to win Best Picture goes to The Revenant.

Though not exactly a perfect barometer for Oscar, it can actually do some good in seeing which indie contenders are sitting in a position of strength.

But when we spoke to Sony Picture Classics co-founder Tom Bernard on Friday, shortly after he returned to New York City from the festival, he let us in on a little secret: «Sundance audiences are not a barometer for how well a film will do.

So TUDA was set to be the best barometer yet for DCPS's progress — compared to both its own previous performance and that of other urban districts.

According to Williams, testing corporations are adapting certain PMTs to essentially provide a barometer for schools to assess, «Are we on track to do well on SBAC?»

This might not be the best example to use as a barometer for the market value, however, as Seinfeld's imminent star power might have inflated the final price.

The annual North American International Auto Show, better known as the Detroit auto show, has maintained its place as a barometer for the entire industry.

Judging by that eternal barometer of build quality, the noise you hear when you shut the doors, the reassuring «thunk» indicates the Rapid is a well - assembled car, and the Rapid placed 69th for reliability, a solid, mid-table performance.

«With approximately 97 percent of the sales now accounted for in our Apple Barometer, we estimate sales in November rose by approximately 19 - 20 percent month - over-month, and well above the November average of up 6 percent over the past eight years,» said White.

While expanding distribution beyond its current markets is no doubt a good thing, the demand that the newspaper companies see will prove an important barometer for whether a similar program can begin to replace their traditional business model of expensive printing and home delivery.

The 4.3 % gain from February 12 through 16 represented the best weekly performance for the widely followed market barometer in more than five years, The Wall Street Journal reports.

We track this rate as a barometer of what the largest lenders are offering their best customers on the most secure loans for any advanced warning about future rate and spread changes.

So, although a price index is a decent barometer, it is not good for comparing investments because a person who invested in a mutual fund or exchange - traded fund that tracked the S&P 500 Index would receive dividends as part of their return.

We track this rate as a barometer of what the largest lenders are offering their best customers on the most secure loans for any advanced warning about future rate changes.

While she gets some things wrong (starting with the title that these approaches are «new» rather than something she ignored and fought against for well over a decade), the video was a breath of fresh air and an important contribution to the movement because of who she was and is, a key barometer of things to come, and one more nail in the coffin of the «catch and kill» paradigm of animal sheltering she used to epitomize.

Giant clams are universally considered to be a barometer of reef health, thought to filter seawater, prevent fish toxins and in other ways promote coral growth so the appearance and success of them here seems to augur well for the future of Pulau Lankayan.

Everyone has good days and bad days, and this wine glass is a perfect barometer for attorneys after a long day of fighting for their clients» rights.

To illustrate this point, LIMRA's 2014 Insurance Barometer Study asked individuals what they felt the price of a $ 250,000 level - term life insurance policy would be for a 30 - year - old person in good health.