Sentences with phrase «measuring stick against»

By 1911 Cubism attracted a long list of adherents and became the important international measuring stick against which all the modern art movements and important avant garde ideas were weighed.

Knowing what it costs to edit and design a book and get it to market is the only accurate measuring stick against which you can evaluate a co-publisher's contribution.

Not exact matches

or you just want to use it as measuring stick on how you rank against your competition.

Instead, they become a constant competition to avoid falling short against a hundred measuring sticks as teens compete with each other for breathing space and attention.

Both College of Charleston, which took care of the ball better than anyone in the Colonial, and potential second - round opponent Clemson, which plays relentless interior defense despite not having a player over 6» 9», could stop the shorthanded Tigers short of a measuring - stick Sweet 16 game against top - seeded Kansas.

They look to get back to.500 in Week 4 against 2015 - 16 Champs Team Reisner, another measuring stick opportunity.

It certainly showed in his last game against Watford, where he picked up a goal and an assist, and stuck a celebratory front flip for good measure.

So if you actually use the tomatometer as a measuring stick for what you want to watch, you might take a close look at how audiences are responding instead of reading my list of grievances against a pretty dull film.

What students are expected to know in order to reach proficiency levels on exams in some states may be as much as four grade levels below the standards set in other states, according to a study by the American Institutes for Research that uses international testing data to gauge states against a common measuring stick.

Christodoulou, who used to be head of assessment at Ark Schools before moving to her new post this summer, said the purpose of the tests was to give teachers a way to measure the «absolute» progress of their individual pupils over the year — rather than be stuck with their «relative» progress against the rest of the nation as shown by the government's headline progress measures.

In metrology, measuring sticks must be traceably calibrated against standard tools of measurement, which must further be traced to primary standards based on physical constants, such as units of wavelength of light that have low measures of uncertainty.

Maybe it was because for a decade, it had been hailed as one of the best games ever made and considered the yard stick all other RPG's to be measured against.

How will the slapstick antics of the ever - paranoid Sticks the Badger measure up against the futuristic action of X and the Maverick Hunters?

He appears to approach each game with a measuring stick that calculates the degree to which Game X advances the medium, pitted against other similar games.

We do not have a measuring stick or sticks of any consistency to measure against.

* As paleoclimate reconstructions are measured against global instrumental temperature records commencing 1880 they do not find any» hockey stick» effects seen in older temperature records

We can repeat our earlier observation that CET instrumental to 1659 - this time augmented by the reconstruction using historical records to 1538, demonstrates a temperature profile that looks quite different to significant periods of the remainder of the Northern Hemisphere if the official version of extended climate - as epitomised by the «Hockey stick» - is taken as the appropriate set of data which it should be measured against.

When you find out your why, every choice you make can be held against that mission statement as a measuring stick.

For instance at a time when anglers where sticking rigidly to the mantra of 3 to 5 milliliters of flavour, plus 1 to 2 milliliters of intense sweetener to a pound of base mix or more, as measured by 4 large eggs or 6 medium eggs as a basis of measurement, I tried other approaches and reaped big rewards against much more experienced anglers.