Sentences with phrase «measure against which»

Use the sample as a measure against which you can compare your own.

Use our sample as a guide for the creation of your own resume or as a measure against which you can compare your existing resume.

After all, if it is the work of artists that the work of the institution is organized around, then its operating costs are an appropriate measure against which to determine the relative value of artists» labor.

Getting 70 % would in itself not be enough, I thought, student progress would have to be good, I thought, Grammar Schools would finally have a measure against which they may not come out well, I thought.

Once a question has been defined, the next step is to determine the measure against which success will be judged.

It's still the measure against which other superhero movies are compared.

The potential for these focused improvement plans to make a difference in the quality of student learning is highly dependent on the degree to which local educators are able to align local curriculum, teaching, and assessment practices with the external measures against which they are being held to account.

These are the observable measures against which you'll determine whether your tactical plan is working or not.

Not exact matches

Internally, the Company's management uses these measures to evaluate performance against historical results, to establish financial targets on a consolidated basis and for other reasons, which are discussed below.

The bill has shown divisions in the Republican party, which dominates Texas politics, pitting the pro-business establishment wing against the powerful socially conservative wing, which said it was a common - sense measure needed to protect privacy.

Since the election, the dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of currencies, has risen 3.6 percent.

He or she takes the Watson - Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal, a popular and well - validated cognitive - ability test, and the Devine Inventory, which measures the applicant's traits and tendencies against those of existing Capital H consultants.

The Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool, or EPEAT, which measures computers against a list of 27 sustainability criteria — including the use of mercury - free materials — gives this model its highest mark, a gold rating.

* The dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of currencies, was little changed at 90.800, lower than 91.076 hit in the previous session, its strongest level since Jan. 12.

For many U.S. airlines, this has resulted in price battlegrounds from Chicago to Dallas and lower unit revenue, which measures ticket sales against flight capacity.

The meetings are not expected to discuss further punitive measures against Moscow because Britain, France, Germany and Italy are members of the 28 - nation European Union, which must agree collectively on what steps to take, said two diplomats briefed on the meeting.

The dollar index, which measures the greenback against six rival currencies, was down 0.48 percent at 91.89, after falling to a nearly one - week low 91.808.

The dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of global currencies, is up more than 7 percent over the past year.

Every test has a goal against which the performance of different versions is measured.

The three European leaders «agreed that the U.S. ought not to take any trade measures against the European Union,» which is «resolved to defend its interests within the multilateral trade framework,» Merkel's statement said.

While everyone knows that the number of female investing partners is very limited, we aimed to establish a well - defined baseline against which to measure future progress.

Or to counter state capitalism like China's, they may engage in explicit subsidies or tax breaks or subsides or preferences or soft loans to promote domestic business's ability to compete overseas against state supported or state owned companies — trade promotion ideas which teeter between reasonable competitive measures and bad crony - capitalism.

BEIJING The Chinese industry body which recommended targeting scrap aluminium in retaliatory trade action against the United States is already exploring what other measures could be taken, an official said on Monday.

«This report establishes a baseline against which we can measure the collective impact of #movethedial as we continue to increase the participation and advancement of women in our tech community,» says Chris Dulny, National Technology Sector Leader at PwC Canada.

Although Trump didn't specify which countries or products will be affected, the punitive measures are part of a broader campaign to level the playing field against international competitors.

As the USD is the largest component in the basket of global currencies against which other currencies» purchasing power are measured, and the ruble lost 58 % in valuation versus the USD just from June 2014 to January 2016, I would dare claim that a 58 % devaluation qualifies as a crash.

On October 12, 2007, the Dow Jones Industrial Index, against which many investment returns are measured, closed at a nominal high of 14,693.

Gold recovered as the U.S. dollar index, which measures the greenback's strength against a basket of six major currencies, slid 0.21 % to 92.09, pulling back from Tuesday's four - month highs of 92.37.

The measure, which halts litigation against the issuers of Puerto Rico's government and quasi-government debt to allow an orderly restructuring process, passed the Senate on a vote of 68 - 30.

The broader measure of the US TWI, which reflects currency moves against all significant trading partners, has not adjusted down as much.

As opposed to just measuring energy efficiency — which may be at odds with comfort much of the time — the Thermal Comfort Rating Metric (TCRM) would let buyers decide how important comfort is when weighed against cost and efficiency.

The U.S. dollar index, which measures the greenback's strength against a basket of six major currencies, was up 0.67 % to 92.24 by 10:21 AM ET (14:21 GMT), the highest level since January 11.

Sales - to - Price has the benefit of measuring against revenue which is tough to manipulate, but doesn't take margins into account.

Moreover, because these new proposed measures target imports from all countries that supply steel or aluminum to the US market, several or perhaps even all those countries may seek to initiate proceedings against the United States at the World Trade Organization (WTO), which enforces the GATT.

From its early 2002 peak, the US dollar has fallen by 24 per cent on the major currency TWI but only 13 per cent on the broader measure, which includes several currencies that are either directly linked to the US dollar or closely managed against it.

Here is an important detail: The starting point against which those gains will be measured isn't the fund's actual net asset value on March 31, but rather the deeply discounted price the new buyers are paying..

The utilitarian belief that «human goods can be measured against each other by means of some quantitative scale is the belief that human goods can be assessed in a way analogous to that by which commodities have a monetary value.

Here is where people like myself generally part ways with most people in circles you may associate in: People like me struggle with sin, succeeding against it, at least in some measure for spaces in time, then failing again and ultimately casting ourselves upon God's grace, which is really good — reassuring, restorative, revitalizing.

In order to properly evaluate anything, there must be a standard against which it is being measured.

The Bible is the standard against which all is measured.

If I am presented with claims that the variety of uses of «experience» does not and could not reveal any normative essence of experience, I can counter that I have a prelinguistic intuition of the essence of my own experience — an intuition against which the adequacy or confusion of language can be authoritatively measured.

If we are Christians, then surely this means that we believe that the life and teachings of Jesus the Christ give us the truest understanding of God, and that this understanding is the benchmark against which we measure other interpretations.

So when we want to know about a person's friends and associates, we look at the people with whom she eats, and when we want to measure a someone's social status against our own, we look at the sort of dinner parties to which he gets invited.

There must have been a factor in the situation which both drove the authorities themselves to desperate measures and also gave them a defence against popular accusation.

The essay was a reply to the measures already taken by the Nazis against Jews, particularly the introduction of an «Aryan paragraph» in the churches which barred non-Aryans from the ministry, religious teaching and theological faculties.

It should serve as a standard, a mark of distinction, or criterion against which to measure our attempts to articulate metaphysical assumptions adequate to understanding this success.

The resulting stalemate illustrated the ambivalence with which our contemporary legal culture regards the proposition that there exists some objective standard of right and wrong against which human legal standards can be measured.

On this ground, too, we should think twice before taking the years around 1960 as a standard against which the current vitality or impotence of the churches is to be measured.

Guterl identifies the unavoidable problem: «The utopian abstraction of the racially mixed, public family was, for Baker and for many others, the benchmark against which the material reality was measured.»

Although billions of dollars are being expended annually on family planning services in less - developed countries, and such programs have been promoted by various governments at the national level for four decades, there are only a few studies that have attempted to measure the demographic and health impact of family planning against a «control group» — a similar area which lacks the service.