Sentences with phrase «measured against the past»

Measured against past Protestant and Catholic confessions, it looks doctrinally thin.

Culture is not something that just stops in time, nor an ideal that can be bottled and measured against the past.

Not exact matches

The president's recent comments on the possibility of new gun control reforms must be measured against his pledges to gun advocates in the past.

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

Over the past 16 years, the US dollar's purchasing power, when measured against gold, has crashed by more than 81 %.

If my interpretation of Hartshorne is true, the categories» manifestations in the concrete are the sole instances in which the power of the past to express itself can be perfectly distinguished from and hence measured against the power of the present to create itself as it wishes.

Once there's a small mound of oats extending past the rim of the measuring cup, then place the flat back of a knife against the top of the measuring cup, and gently scrape it across the top to get rid of the excess oats.

It will be the truest way he can shake the comparisons, of people rarely measuring him without doing so against the basketball stars, past and present, that share his last name.

i wld really wish that we measure our hype and not loose focus after what i wld call exceptional performance by our lads against MANURE.We can only hope that lessons have been learnt and mistakes of the past will be duly corrected as we progress forward.

Is not the point of all this to look at the completion percentages of the current college prospects measured against their current college counterparts and college QBs of recent years past to get an idea if they have the requisite accuracy to be a viable NFL QB?

Over the past 20 years, the team with the better defense, as measured by points against per game, has gone 13 - 7 (65.0 %) in N.B.A. Championships.

It assesses measures, reviews them, and provides a levy against excesses, that we have all experienced in the past three decades.

Long Island Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor who was elected in 2016 running on an anti-corruption platform following Skelos» conviction (but was not involved in either the Silver or Skelos cases), released a statement saying the Silver decision demonstrates the need for state lawmakers to stop relying on the feds to bring corruption cases against state - level elected officials, and also pass more anti-corruption measures, which lawmakers declined to do this past session.

The governor has been unsuccessful in the past getting major reform measures passed in the legislature, and Senate Republicans have said they are against limiting outside income.

Senate Republicans are not big fans, and some of their candidates campaigned against the measure this past election cycle.

It is important to evaluate the effort of governments in the past as against what the government of the day is doing in the area of water since assuming power to enable citizens measure and ascertain who actually had / has the interest and progress of the people in the area of the provision of potable water.

In the Assembly, where the measure has been blocked the past six years, some who oppose the measure want a chance to speak out against it, Morelle, the bill sponsor, said.

Congressman Gibson voted to support a measure banning abortions nationwide after 20 weeks of pregnancy regardless of the circumstances, and has voted against funding for Planned Parenthood in the past.

Dramas from elections past - like the way Michael Foot was nearly sacked as Leader half way through the 1983 campaign, like Kinnock and Hattersley endlessly contradicting each other over Labour's tax plans in 1987, like Kinnock «s «take to the hills» defence policy against a potential Soviet invasion, like the tax bombshell, like Maggie Thatcher's «I want the doctor I want, on the day I want» rant in 1987, like John Major unleashing the soap box in 1992, like Neil Hamilton and Martin Bell slugging it out on Knutsford Heath in 1997, like the Prescott punch of 2001 - seem more vivid than the more measured and choreographed procession of 2010.

And how do their records of scholarly impact measure up against those of past greats such as Karl Marx among historians and economists, or Sigmund Freud among psychologists?

Under the new, simplified tables, children will have their blood pressure measured against normal - weight children, so ideal readings will likely be lower than in the past.

As physical activity is a well know protective factor against cognitive decline, it would be interesting to know if any measure of aerobic fitness or exercise index (current or past) are at disposal to examine possible differences between those groups.

And the extraordinary measures we took in the past to guard against favoritism will be less necessary.

In the past, eLearning was set up to capture and measure the activities of learners against a very linear backdrop.

They plan to push candidates to come out against charter schools and the expansion private school vouchers despite the fact many Democrats have supported the measures in the past.

Georgia PTA dedicated its efforts over the past year to advocating against the Opportunity School District ballot initiative, which would have put a state political appointee in charge of public schools with few accountability measures and removed control from locally elected school boards and families.

It's in our nature to look in the rearview mirror, to measure the brightness of the present against the best of the past.

Measured against crossovers, cars that look like SUVs, Tahoe handling is best described as ponderous, though steering feels more precise than in the past.

«Once my stupid mother brought me to the arbularyo who told me to sit in front of him and took out a twig from his pants pocket and placed it against his palm measuring it and he waved it inches from my face and told me to close my eyes and I did and he told me to open my eyes and I did and he placed the twig on his palm and somehow it had grown longer extending a couple of inches past the tip of his middle finger and my mother gasped and he said that indeed an engkanto had found favor in me... ``

She felt its commanding logic, both internal and external, powerful enough to keep her tethered to home, to silence the fears that she would never write again, eliminate the horrid daydream in which she sometimes indulged, about simply walking away from this alternative life she was living, filled with its soft poetry and hard tediousness, its spectacular, love - ridden times measured against meaningless hours and days and weeks and months, a life where her past accomplishments were long forgotten, where she was called, most often, Joan Manning, leaving her tongue - tied and wishing she could say, «I'm not Joan Manning, I'm Joan Ashby, the writer.»

According to the 2015 year end SPIVA ® Europe Scorecard, which measures the performance of actively managed funds against their benchmarks, 84 % of U.S. active funds underperformed the S&P 500 and an astounding 98 % of U.S. active funds trailed their benchmark over the past 10 years.

In dogs, serum canine parvovirus (CPV) and canine distemper virus (CDV) antibody titers have been measured in the past to help assess duration of immunity induced by vaccines against these two viruses.

The Geneva - based World Trade Organization, based ruled against China this past July on its previous tax measure of preferential tax rates for domestically produced cars violated international trade rules.

I had never resorted to such measures in the past, but I felt that to ensure a healthy planet for my grandchildren I had to take a stand against the most destructive project currently threatening the environment.

exactly... i recall seeing a graph produced from ice core samples in which the CO2 content of thousands of years past was measured against tree ring data... what it showed was CO2 levels rising 300 years after rapid vegetative growth (natural warming) and incidently the PPM of CO2 measured higher than current levels.

«The sum of the evidence against saturated fat over the past half - century amounts to this: the early trials condemning saturated fat were unsound; the epidemiological data showed no negative association; saturated fat's effect on LDL - cholesterol (when properly measured in subfractions) is neutral; and a significant body of clinical trials over the past decade has demonstrated the absence of any negative effect of saturated fat on heart disease, obesity, or diabetes.

In the eyes of the law, measuring past impairment discriminates against those with addiction, while providing little indication of their present ability to perform their jobs safely.

Overall, e-tipi is a very rough - cut tool, when measured against others I've tried in the past.

The move is clearly a competitive measure against Spotify, which has been steadily ramping up its products for artists over the past year.

An employer will measure your future success against your past successes.

The study was a first for NAR, so it's not possible to measure that response against households» attitudes in the past, but other research suggests the preference for smart - growth communities is on the rise.