Sentences with phrase «hard time measuring»

Even with those internal specs, Nexus 9 has a hard time measuring up to the iPad Air 2 in almost every category.

«Without a treatment plan for your business, your business is going to have a hard time measuring response to treatment.

Since undocumented immigrants are difficult to track, officials have a hard time measuring and treating infected individuals, especially for diseases like Chagas that can remain dormant for years.

The problem with liquidity isn't just that we have a hard time pinning down a definition, but also have a hard time measuring its presence or absence in the market.

Not exact matches

Popularity has become both easier to measure and harder to measure at the same time precisely because there are so many metrics.

While there is a «magic factor» to getting a cover story in the New York Times or Forbes — which can change the trajectory of a business and is hard to quantify in terms of exact impact — PR professionals can and must think of creative ways to measure outcomes in a more quantitative way.

At a time when mobile ROI is hard to measure and often less profitable than advertising to desktop users, Facebook has taken a mobile - first approach and successfully encouraged marketers to do the same.

Any software in your stack should be providing greater benefit than the cost — what makes entrepreneurs hesitate on support software is that it's harder to measure the potential gains on time, organization, and social capital.

The central bank said the measures, which will make it harder for first - time buyers to obtain loans big enough to buy a decent house at current prices, might hurt the economy in the short term.

Combine KPIs across multiple data sources to measure hard - to - track productivity ratios in real - time.

While the extent of Stormy's notoriety is hard to measure, one thing is certain, according to several seasoned adult industry observers: in the span of four months this year Stormy has become the most famous living porn star — and arguably the biggest of all time.

Currency declines could create an opportunity for U.S. exporters to present more competitive prices, but if countries implement retaliatory measures in the form of tariffs, both importers and exporters could face a hard time in the years ahead.

If the doctrine of the new life of the Christian is the hardest of all to believe, as in our disillusioned time it must be, still there can be no good news of Christ apart from the possibility that in some measure the life of love can actually be lived on this dark and bloody battlefield of human history.

Next you head into the supermarket (remembering that you had to actually dress up, do your hair, fix makeup etc. to do this) and wander the aisles wasting time looking at ingredient lists and trying to remember if the gums, preservatives and additives have dairy / eggs in them... taking the rolls to the counter, working out whether or not you want to go through the self checkout or keep a checkout operator employed for a few more years... pay... get back in the car... find somewhere to buy bottled water for the dogs... drive 50 km home... unpack dogs and buns and suddenly getting up, stretching... wearing whatever the heck you like with your hair in the air, no makeup, dogs within a hard stares range in case they feel like eating the furniture while you are working and that slow measuring out, baking etc. doesn't seem so time consuming any more.

In HuHot's busy restaurants, «It can be hard to understand time, measure and cook all of the grill meals consistently at the pace in which they are going on and off the grill,» Martin says.

Now given that he was the only real victim in the whole John Terry and Vanessa Perroncel affair and had conducted himself in a very restrained and measured way I see no reason why he was getting such a hard time.

Another reason I believe Arsenal could have an advantage is because we have had to face Klopp's Dortmund a few times in the Champions League recently and while they gave us a really hard time at first, we did manage to beat them in Dortmund and the last time we met Arsenal won well, so Wenger seems to have got the measure of how to face a Klopp team full of energy nad with a heavy pressing style.

The closer the spacing between your children, the more difficult it becomes because it is hard to get a decent feeding in for Baby # 2 when Baby # 1 doesn't have the attention span to finish a book or even an Elmo DVD (desperate times call for desperate measures).

That means they will be hit six times harder than the very richest by the coalition's deficit - cutting measures.

Senior Deputy Commissioner John King said, «The data shows that schools responded to the assignment they were given — they worked hard to help students achieve standards as measured by the state tests that were being given at that time.

«Attempts to repeal this measure would harm hard working New Yorkers at a time when they are already getting pounded by detrimental federal tax changes,» Stewart - Cousins said.

When it was voted upon in 2010, I voted against this measure, and I have been fighting hard to eliminate this unfair policy since that time.

Assemblyman Joseph Borelli — whose district completely overlaps with the vacant Staten Island Congressional seat once held by Michael Grimm — today proposed a pair of measures that would create hard time frames in which Gov. Andrew Cuomo would have to call special elections.

Charging Time: This is a really hard thing to measure because it depends on so many factors: temperature, the condition of the battery, how many other batteries are charging.

«When cosmologists try to measure time delays, the problem they often encounter is that individual stars in the lensing galaxy can distort the light curves of the different images of the event, making it harder to match them up,» says Goldstein.

That calculation requires measuring the x-rays» intensity and determining their phase, the relative timing — a harder problem traditionally solved by comparing the diffraction pattern from a pure crystal with one from a similar crystal in which heavy metal atoms substitute for some components of the crystal.

«If you consider these lever presses a measure of how much a rat will work to get a drug infusion, then these rats worked more than 10 times harder to get MDPV.»

She found that people who were between 18 and 25 years old during hard economic times, as measured by unemployment rates, were less narcissistic later in life than those who came of age during economic booms.

It's hard to say, Buesseler says, what impact on the marine environment this overflow would have, but his crew will be there at the right time to measure a baseline.

Ranging from a hundred times to a few hundred thousand times the sun's mass, these intermediate - mass black holes are so hard to measure that even their existence is sometimes disputed.

While the research has been proven in mice, it's hard to accurately measure, in real time, the clearance of small proteins in human brains that may link poor sleep to the risk of dementia.

They measured how much time each dog or wolf spent within a 1 - meter radius of a human, as well as how hard the animal worked to solve a puzzle box.

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), the satellites tasked with measuring the mass changes in Greenland and other icy landscapes around the world, has a hard time time seeing the difference between rising land and ice.

However, relying on the volunteers to recall how much they slept tends to be a relatively inaccurate way to measure sleep time, so it's hard to say if 10 minutes of lost sleep would really make a difference, he says.

Living in these areas was associated with a low Human Development Index score, which measures education, standard of living and health, suggesting that children will have a hard time developing to reach their full potential in the current conditions.

I have a hard time finding boots to fit my calves and the made - to - measure shafts are awfully tempting.

Hard times ask such measures.

This is the time when England had to choose between gentlemanly complacency or bold interference, contenting themselves on the maintenance of a measured outward appearance, while inside the feelings are hard to keep swallowed down.

Not addressed to the film, which is precisely calibrated, weighted, and measured and never falters, but because it seemed like if I moved, or even breathed too hard at times, I myself might break apart.

But, at the same time, given what we have learned about the causal impacts on students and the long - term impacts on earnings, it is increasingly hard to sustain the argument that test - based measures have no role to play, that the weight ought to be zero.

«Cheating can be a hard scenario to measure,» said Karla Garner, a Spanish teacher at Bishop Guilfoyle High School in Altoona, PA. «There is «observed» cheating during test time and group work in the classroom.

But in a subsequent meeting, the staff actually took portions of the MCAS and came to these conclusions: Although the test is hard, it really does measure the kinds of skills and knowledge students need to be successful in the 21st century; because the MCAS is a curriculum - referenced test whose items are released every year, it is possible to align the curriculum and study for the test; and finally, our students have a long way to go, but most can reach proficiency if the whole school teaches effectively over time.

The best of what happens in a classroom is pretty hard to measure and may take some time to develop.

It's harder, however, to measure whether these courses actually have an effect on behavior over time.

Other responses, like teaching to the test and cheating in a subtler manner, such as giving the students extra time, are presumably also present but harder to measure.

«[T] he timing of value - added measures — that they arrive only once a year and during the middle of the school year when it is hard to adjust teaching assignments — is a real concern among teachers and principals alike.»

Setting up a new school is, in equal measure, the hardest, most frustrating, most time consuming and most enjoyable thing I have ever done in my 17 years...

CCSA has been actively tracking the progress of this measure, and at this time we believe the proponents will be hard pressed to find the backing and resources necessary to actually qualify the measure, much less launch a viable campaign for its passage.

And while teaching students to write takes a lot of time, is hard to do, and difficult to measure, we have to do more of it, particularly for low - income kids.

We can't say we are in favor of Maserati's decision, but hard times call for hard measures.