Sentences with phrase «kind of a measure of»

You are so right; it is being treated like a milestone, but worse, some kind of measure of determining my baby's quality.

Also, McCain - ites who want to embrace this result should note that it is based on the same kind of measures of ideology (DW - Nominate scores) that have been used to show that Barack Obama, contra the National Journal and Republican mythology, is not (for better or worse) the most liberal Senator by a significant stretch.

Not exact matches

As much as those who fear any kind of measured gun control try to stop the brave Wintemutes of the world, however, there is good news too.

When you're marketing your startup, you want to avoid any kind of marketing that can't be easily measured.

«There's all kinds of other measures, post investment tools, pay - as - you - go,» he said.

While its apps use the freemium model — a no - charge download with in - app purchases to access bonus features or accessories — the company has deployed measures to avoid the kind of kiddie overspending that garners bad press.

Until this study, the first of its kind to use in - person and computer - assisted observation to measure the commercial - watching habits of 376 adults, no valid research had been done on the topic.

The only way we can achieve this kind of insight and transparency on our progress is to avidly measure our daily tasks.

As The Verge noted in its report on the new anti-abuse measure, the kind of restriction that Twitter has implemented with its latest move has a long history on the social web, where it is often referred to as a «shadow ban.»

As for last week's market activity, Jones said that on Thursday we saw a five standard deviation (that's a volatility measure) kind of movement in one day.

Coordinating your body actually takes a great deal of intelligence — just not the kind measured by IQ tests.

Think of it as a kind of vacuum energy permeating the fabric of spacetime that defies measure.»

Even so, the researchers aren't making broad pronouncements that remote work always trumps office work in terms of productivity, but rather suggest certain kinds of workers might be better suited for it, such as solitary, hourly folks whose output can be measured — call - center reps, proofreaders, developers, and the like.

That pursuit of innovation is precisely the kind of behaviour that is a marker for long - term success, as measured by revenue growth, going public or being acquired and rolled up into something larger.

«We've been looking at things like beacons: how can we utilize a beacon to measure in store visits or to kind of improve the communication messages we send our customers,» says Kraus.

People make those kinds of changes in response to a crisis or life change (divorce, retirement, illness, job loss, to be near a sick parent), not as a preventive measure.

Female owned companies, they found, were less likely to be in business - dense regions (the measure used: how many jobs of all kinds are located within one mile of the business?)

Moreover, can Postol explain the fact that, with all the current civil defense measures available in Israel during the 2006 Lebanon war, including public alarm systems and shelters already in place, Hezbollah rockets killed scores of Israelis while the same kinds of rockets now fired by Hamas fail to achieve anywhere near the same degree of lethality?

CBO's measure of before - tax comprehensive income includes all cash income (including non-taxable income not reported on tax returns, such as child support), taxes paid by businesses, [15] employees» contributions to 401 (k) retirement plans, and the estimated value of in - kind income received from various sources (such as food stamps, Medicare and Medicaid, and employer - paid health insurance premiums).

As a cost - saving measure in the United States, companies sometimes do not apply for a copyright registration until just before they file an infringement suit — although this approach may compromise their ability to obtain certain kinds of damages.

On this measure, again, we find that Fortune's most - and least - admired companies alike had board members with the training and experience to analyze complex financial issues and to understand what kinds of risks a company is taking on.

This survey is the first of its kind in measuring the activities and outlook of Canadian companies operating in Southeast Asia.

On the occasions that USA TODAY sat down with Kalanick to discuss such announcements, the CEO was measured and not inclined to lob the kind of grenades that made him infamous.

Trudeau acknowledged that none of these measures would have prevented the kind of controversy that has been boiling over the past few weeks, stemming from a $ 90,172 cheque written by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff, Nigel Wright, to repay wrongful expenses by Sen. Mike Duffy, who has since quit the Conservative caucus.

In December 2015, S&P Dow Jones Indices launched the S&P Real Assets Index, the first index of its kind, which is designed to measure global property, infrastructure, commodities, and inflation - linked bonds, using liquid and investable component indices that track public equities, fixed income, and futures.

The world of finance has taken notice, with a gold rush of startups saying their blockchain - related technologies can process virtually any kind of trade or money transfer in minutes instead of current times measured in days.

What kinds of tools can best measure outcomes and help medical providers decide when any medical intervention is worth it?

We don't yet have answers for all of this, but we are working on ways to measure that we are getting the right kinds of subscribers instead of simply looking at raw numbers.

how about a set of coupled ODEs that track growth and decay of «hotness» through time, with the successes being a kind of forcing function, and the ODE measuring a probability of success.

The landmark survey commissioned by the Broadbent Institute is the first study of its kind and size to measure Canadians» attitudes about voting system design and preference for electoral reform.

Based on the simplest measures that people calculate care, life expectancy, those kind of things, there's no demonstrable difference, and people can certainly argue on the margin.

They all have lots of objectives, but it's about helping them measuring back to that object, not just awareness but what kind of awareness, not just impressions but what are they actually going to do for you or for the brand, the business, are you changing the hearts and minds of the customer?

So, for one thing, he talks about how to value the investment portfolio of another company and how that is measured how that is accounting for their financial statements which are by the way different the kind of rules that you use today.

With every mass shooting, Republicans have been careful to avoid conversations around expanding background checks or imposing any kind of gun control measures, outside of arming more people.

This is why any willingness to accept risk will far more tied to our longstanding measures of market action and other testable factors than to some novel «Bernanke faith factor» that we have no way of testing historically in any kind of rigorous manner.

Netflix's stock valuation has been a constant source of debate for years, and currently is trading at a price - to - earnings (P / E) ratio of 123x, which is rich by almost every measure — no matter what kind of business model it is.

Compelling China to change course with respect to these kinds of market access barriers is long overdue, but U.S. missteps (such as imposing restrictions unilaterally through channels not sanctioned by the World Trade Organization) could initiate a much larger and more deleterious sequence of protectionist measures.

Sutton Fell noted that while «80 % of companies offer some kind of formal or informal flexible work options, only 3 % measure the productivity, performance, and engagement of those options to determine their ROI [return on investment], and connect them to overarching business goals and the bottom line.»

«We have said many times that China resolutely opposes any kind of unilateral protectionist trade measures,» Lu stated.

@Noah, That book is ridiculous... He claims the universe is likely younger than 13.7 b.y. and backs it up by claiming that 100 + measurements taken over the past 300 years supports the claim that light does not travel at a constant rate... As if people 300 years ago could measure with the kind of accuracy we can today

Mark, while I certainly don't think all christians are bad, intolerant people, it's kind of hard to ignore all the fundies running for president and all the money religious groups are pouring into anti-gay ballot measures.

If you measure up to that person's or organization's idea of what kind of person goes to Heaven then you don't have to go to Hell.

@Danica, I'm not sure if the metric is valid, but it irks me that you'd feel you had to resort to some kind of straw poll measure to have to prove your point with any authority — the feeling is a symptom that underscores the truth of your point.

His range of experience was restricted by the kind of man he was; and this in itself raises certain difficulties if he is held up as an example to all human beings everywhere and at all times, for it is at least in some measure unreal to present a first - century Galilean as a model for the conduct of Western or African or Asian men in a twentieth - century industrial society.

The objective of the society of Mont - Pèlerin was on the one hand, to combat Keynesianism and the social solidarity measures that prevailed after the Second World War and, on the other hand, to prepare for the future the theoretical foundations of another kind of capitalism, hard and liberated from any rule.

By official statistics, thirteen percent of Americans are poor today» many of them immigrants of the last few years who will not long remain poor, and measured by a standard that counts as poor families with cash income (not income in kind, from welfare benefits, for example) up to about twenty thousand dollars for a family of four.

Johann Georg Hamann (1730 - 88) is, by any measure, an obscure figure, little known outside the exclusive circles of a certain very rarefied kind of scholarship, hardly read at all even in his native Germany, and perhaps truly understood by next to no one.

A change in self - image is most crucial for people who abuse their bodies and souls «commercially» or engage in that kind of traffic; without it, legal stoppage remains a Band - Aid measure.

Let us call this the principle of justice as general emancipation, using the term «general» to express not only the kind of emancipatory conditions with which justice is properly concerned but also the prescription to maximize the measure of those conditions that is generally available or equally available to all.

The same kind of coordinated action could unite evangelicals with other Christians and concerned persons of goodwill to address the key social needs of the late 20th century — if not to solve them, at least to hold them before God responsibly in prayer to seek whatever measure of progress may be consistent with the church's task before the return of Christ.