Sentences with phrase «good of a yardstick»

But how good of a yardstick is it?

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.»

By that yardstick, today the measure of a good brand is that it resists a fixed definition.

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.

The best yardstick of anti-Semitism is not of belief, which is often half - articulated and self - contradictory, but of action.

It wasn't the best performance from the Gunners by any yardstick but their ability to pull one out of the bag in such games is a mark of champions and is one that'll amply please boss Arsene Wenger.

In terms of an uneventful pre-season — there is perhaps no better yardstick to gauge their prospects for most foreign players on both sides are unknown quantities — Lobera's team will be the more favoured one.

«We are clear that the yardsticks for testing the credibility and reliability of victims in sexual abuse cases do not serve the police or prosecutors well and risk leaving an identifiable group of vulnerable victims unprotected by the criminal law.

Study co-author Linda - Gail Bekker, MD, PhD — Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and current President of the International AIDS Society — says, «Whether the yardstick is mortality, life expectancy or new transmissions, these reductions would almost certainly produce proportionally greater harm than savings — do more human harm than economic good.»

Radio astronomers have taken a look at one of the Milky Way's hottest star - forming regions using a new and better yardstick.

Since one of the main purposes of numbers is to measure quantities, for example, you'd expect a new bunch of numbers would allow you to measure things that never had a good yardstick before.

Ronald Reagan's famous question in the U.S. presidential election of 1980 is generally a good yardstick for picking a candidate, or at least for judging a leader's economic policies.

Using Sobel's yardstick, scientists may be able to start untangling the paradox of smell: why we are so good at distinguishing odors and so bad at naming them.

The yardstick did such a good job of measuring the quality of odors that the scientists could use it to predict just how pleasant (or unpleasant) people would rate a new molecule.

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.

A better yardstick of Aldo's ability is how well he's dealt with Frankie Edgar on two separate occasions, Edgar is a fighter who's barely dropped any rounds against every other featherweight he's fought yet Aldo handled him without much trouble both times.

While this is true to some extent, a better yardstick for ascertaining how a good a site is the number of active members.

Follow our advice, and sign up to one of the best online dating sites, and you'll be beating off the local singles with a yardstick.

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

Quality, reference check, survival in the market, affordable costs, and use of reliable tech tools are some yardsticks needed for choosing the best online tutoring center in the USA.

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.

And finally, the researchers called for the development of better assessments, or yardsticks, to measure a student's social emotional learning progress over time.

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.

Perhaps most impressively, the new GTS should easily better the R - SPEC's Aussie - benchmark 4.5 - second 0 - 100 km / h acceleration time and match the 4.3 - second pace of those $ 230,000 German super-sedans with a pricetag of about $ 95,000, setting a new yardstick for sub - $ 100K performance.

While I realize this short amount of time might not be the best yardstick to measure P2P investing success, I'm convinced enough to divert a few bucks each week to my Lending Club account.

So this is a fairly good yardstick to use when calculating the cost per mile of your redemption.

The 2 °C target is a matter of substantial debate (too weak, too strong, too vague...), but it is a good yardstick for understanding the scale of climate change, and its impacts, that we are setting ourselves up for this century.

(hint: lower costs, better staff, higher sales, better profits, avoiding fines or jail — take your pick — but non-carbon energy has to be cheaper and better than FF on every yardstick or it is a waste of everyone's time)

Fresh from the government's lockup, here is a look at the key features, and an early assessment of how they stack up against the yardstick of good policy.

When we get some good scientific analysis which brings an understanding of that question, we will have advanced the yardsticks a very long way.

The Court of Appeal has abandoned the pretence of a yardstick of equality and heralded in a principle of equal sharing of all assets in the absence of good reason to do so.

In terms of measuring the performance of a law firm, there is simply no better yardstick.

The concept of «extreme circumstances» used in the NPR can be assumed to serve a bridge to the well - known Caroline formula, which is still a yardstick for measuring the legality of anticipatory self - defense.

Her «Seven Commandments of Good Therapy» applies to all therapies, and gives you a yardstick to measure a new therapist,

«One of the best yardsticks a senior housing / healthcare borrower can use to determine whether a lender will be up to the task measures how successful the lender has been in securing new business from existing clients,» says funding expert Sampada D'silva.

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.

Using the median - sale - price yardstick, Northeast homeowners earned about the same investment return as the holder of a long - term certificate of deposit or some good utility stock.

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