Sentences with phrase «measured against the history»

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But the first of many boycotts against Nike was followed by corporate efforts at reform, and the company now has a history of holding suppliers to account and cutting off those that don't measure up.

Our experience suggests that US stocks generally look expensive and offer limited long - term return prospects from current levels when measured against their own long history.

Fans are a fickle bunch, and it's not like they would have the alternate history of the Jeff Hoffman Era to measure it against.

In late 2014, Grindr responded to security researchers who pointed out that risk by offering an option to turn off the app's distance - measuring feature, and disabling it by default in countries known to have «a history of violence against the gay community».

Our experience suggests that US stocks generally look expensive and offer limited long - term return prospects from current levels when measured against their own long history.

His essays may be considered witnesses of their time; they are highly critical and sharp in tone, and can now, decades later, be measured against the actual history.

Second, I measure the history that I know against the observable facts.

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».

Abstract Expressionism, in other words, remains the measure of success against which modern and contemporary American art is judged — as art, as art history, as blue - chip commodities.

These cases are commonly referred to in Georgia as negligent security cases because the legal inquiry focuses on whether the complex took adequate security measures to protect tenants against assaults given a history of prior crime.

Anti-smoking socialisation effects were measured on the parent survey in the following categories: (1) parental self efficacy regarding smoking prevention; (2) parental self disclosure of smoking history and experience with addiction; (3) parental explication of negative consequences for initiation of smoking; (4) parental reinforcement of child's abstinence; (5) effort by parent to counter pro-smoking influence from media; (6) effort by parent to counter pro-smoking influence from peers; (7) parental monitoring of smoking initiation by children and friends; (8) parental effort to reduce child's exposure to tobacco smoke in the home; (9) parental action to establish social contracts against smoking with children.