Sentences with phrase «good yardstick»

Well if a players presence in the field causes the team to lose points what better yardstick is there?

The mortgage industry has developed good yardsticks that can help you figure that out.

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

A good yardstick for the real, risk - free rate is the yield on the 10 - year Treasury minus expected inflation.

A good yardstick is the «earnings yield.»

«But it's still the best yardstick we have for future returns.»

People judge the best professors by the number of awards they get, or the salary that they get, or the kind of school that they are in, which might on the face of it seem like it's a good yardstick for judging how good somebody is, but at the same time it's not really relevant to the particular field,» Raghunathan continues.

The Manu game will be a good yardstick to measure ourselves by.

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.

But it did give the maximum allowable financial contribution to Teachout, and her showing in the four - county Capital Region — where the state workforce is concentrated — could be a good yardstick for the union's might.

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

«We need a good metric — a good yardstick, a tool — to assess how much renewable energy can be injected into the bulk power... system,» said Joseph McClelland, director of FERC's Office of Electric Reliability.

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.

I hope I'm a better writer now, though this blog is probably not the best yardstick for measuring my progress.

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.

Besides being accessible to just about all ages — my 4 - year old had no problems, though he finished Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes without much help so maybe that's not the best yardstick to measure «accessible» — it's inoffensive, provides a middlin» challenge, and it's fun to watch and play (if it comes down to it.

Keeping NCLB's testing system, creating a new and better yardstick to measure school performance, finding new ways to hold schools accountable by combining carrots with sticks, encouraging merit pay, and tracking of teacher performance — all that and more has been included in Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's agenda.

It's exactly what one would want from a publication named Quality Counts: a nice, clear focus on academic results, namely student achievement, measured on the best yardstick available.

Street furniture — a civic accessory in its own right — is perhaps the best yardstick.

Breiner - Sanders, Lowe, Miles, and Swendler (1999) believe that the way an educated person uses language is a good yardstick for language proficiency.

It was a good yardstick by which to measure my progress in my online platform.

Another good yardstick is the price earnings ratio.

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.

However, a single index may not be the best yardstick for the fund, even if the fund's portfolio does not undergo frequent changes.

That's a good yardstick, if your cash flow is 3.5 % when the 10 - year is 1.75 %.

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.

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

Though the Incurred Claim Ratio is a good yardstick to measure the company's performance, yet it does not reflect the bigger picture.

«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.

If an FHA - approved HUD 232 loan is on your shopping list, consider this: «One of the best yardsticks a senior housing / healthcare borrower can use to determine whether a lender will be up to the -LSB-...]