Sentences with phrase «measure everything against»

Not exact matches

In doing so, we are balancing the improvement in our quantitative measures, as well as our qualitative analysis, against our tolerance for risk (we prefer investment positions that allow us to be dead wrong about everything and still not experience intolerable losses).

In the middle two quarters of the 20th century, a drastically reductionist way of thinking became the bottom line against which everything was measured.

After all, everything we ever do, say, or experience is measured against the yardstick of human endeavor.

Everything he will ever do will be measured against that film.

Now, having turned his back on yet another BIRDMAN sequel and the commercial success it promises, Riggan is looking to reinvent himself as a serious actor, but «The Birdman» is on his tail and remains the nagging criteria against which he measures everything, and to whom he has sacrificed his marriage and relationship with his daughter.

In all, 157 members of Congress voted against the new measure, citing everything from excessive spending to unnecessary government interference in the lives of American families.

Not everything done abroad is good, nor is it always transferable to the U.S.. But, with school reform, we are unique in pursuing so much testing, punitive measures against schools and teachers, and the creation of so many independent charter schools.

Mixing elements of biology, nanotechnology and natural history against computer programme interfaces, screen savers and measuring devices, she suggests the impermanence and inter-changeability of these apparently contrasting and oppositional worlds: «everything is a mutant and a hybrid».

As with everything in marketing, it helps to have a goal against which sponsorships are measured.

And in the crypto - world Bitcoin is like the U.S. dollar (PowerShares DB US Dollar Bullish (NYSE: UUP)-RRB-, that which everything else is measured against.