Sentences with phrase «measuring stick at»

Kia is feeling the pressure from ever - mounting fuel efficiency regulations as much as any other automaker, and like many of its peers it has decided that the path to appeasing those wielding the measuring stick at the EPA is to produce hybrid versions of its popular models.

I bought this measuring stick at a craft fair.

Get an education about what's possible with sustainable packaging when nature is the ultimate measuring stick at SPC Impact in San Francisco, April 24 - 26.

Not exact matches

The Federal Reserve's preferred measure of U.S. inflation, the core personal consumption expenditures index, is seen stuck at 1.6 % for the year to September, exactly where it has been since March.

The author suggests an approach that borrows from tech's own playbook on experimentation: Collect detailed data on bias in your organization, identify company - specific ways to measure its effect, create hypotheses about how to move those metrics, and then throw some spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks.

I'm okay with it of you're okay with it I guess... just thought Jesus deserved some level of dignity from us and a fair shot at the measuring sticks.

The house smelled heavenly at this point and I was tempted to skip making the bread and just pour that over ice - cream... but since I had already measure everything else out I stuck with it: — RRB - Needless to say best banana bread ever: — RRB - Thanks for recipe and ideas!

Caramel Cake (Gourmet, January 2008) Cake: 2 cups plus 2 tablespoons sifted cake flour (not self - rising; sift before measuring) 1 teaspoon baking powder3 / 4 teaspoon baking soda1 / 2 teaspoon salt1 stick (4 oz) unsalted butter, softened1 cup granulated sugar1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract2 large eggs, at room temperature 30 minutes1 cup well - shaken buttermilk Caramel Glaze: Make cake: Preheat oven to 350 °F with rack in middle.

I always chafed at that bit of oil or honey that stuck to the measuring cup.

Ingredients — Makes 3 mini loaves 1 1/2 cups (195gms) all - purpose flour, spooned into measuring cup, then leveled off with a knife 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/8 tsp baking soda 1 1/4 tsp finely ground cardamom pods (from about 10 - 12 whole cardamoms) Pinch of salt 1 1/2 sticks (170gms) butter, at room temperature 1/2 cup (115gms) cream cheese, at room temperature 1 cup granulated sugar 3 large eggs, at room temperature

as an addendum to my previous comment I'm not a wnger Hater I fully appreciate his magnificent acheivments over the years BUt it has to change as the results are really the only yard stick by which we as fans can measure things and they are just NOT there last nights performance has sickend me and while the players are very much at fault the buck ultimately must stop with wenger and after him the board.

Not only will this provide a huge measuring stick for both squads as we barrel toward the Playoffs, but # 1 in the Power Rankings going forward is up for grabs and also an inside track at the # 1 Seed in the Playoffs come March.

In the meantime, attendance at voluntary summer workouts, which drew a paltry 26 players (of a possible 85) last year, will provide a measuring stick of the Wildcats» want - to.

Tehsin Nayani, who for six years worked as confidential media advisor for the Glazers, recently told BBC News that Joel is «measured» and «constantly calm and assured under pressure,» and the fact that Van Gaal is still at the helm despite the ever - growing calls could suggest that they're happy to stick with the under - fire Dutchman for the time being, at least until they drift further away from the top four.

Or, depending on who you ask, it was a monumental disappointment, a heap of compromises and half - measures in the state budget and later an anti-climatic finish that seemed more about sticking it to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and boozing it up at brunch than doing anything all that meaningful.

Over the period 1980 to 2012, unemployment rose from just 6.4 % to 27.4 % in spite of consistent GDP growth rate averaging more than 7.5 % and by 2016, 33.6 % (using NBS old measure); Human Development Index (HDI) has risen only modestly between 1990 (0.411) and 2014 (0.514); and average life expectancy in spite of our enormous resources remains stuck at 52.9 years in 2015 while the equivalent figure in the developed world averages over 70 years.

Security measures in place for the «unprecedented challenge» of Pope Francis» visit to New York City this month will include screening checkpoints, airspace restrictions and a ban on balloons, selfie sticks and backpacks at papal events, federal and city officials said.

Starting with the dated lava layers at the top, he used the 405,000 - year cycle — the one most clearly visible in the repeating layers — as a measuring stick to tick off a series of 405,000 - year time increments down the rest of the core.

However, it is currently not clear how to know which neurons belong to a particular group; worse still, current technologies (like sticking fine electrodes directly into the brain) are not well suited to measuring several thousand neurons at once.

«We can't just stick a thermometer in there,» says physicist Barbara Jacak, spokesperson for an instrument at RHIC that measured the energy of emitted gamma rays as a proxy for the incredible peak temperatures.

Capillary blood spot hormone testing, which requires only a finger stick and can be done at home, is a newer form of hormone testing that accurately measures hormones delivered with a cream.

Get a cloth tape measure (or some yarn and a yard stick) and determine the size of your shoulders right at the top (to where it's almost popping off); your bust at the fullest point (without squishing); then measure your waist just above your belly button; and your hips — slightly below your hip bone and around the biggest part of your bum.

«Nature» sticks close to home for Bay Area viewers with tonight's episode at 8 on KQED: The episode looks at the ecosystem of the Yosemite Valley, as filmmaker Joseph Pontecorvo follows scientists who are measuring the impact of climate change on the wilderness area.

But a measuring stick does not make a movie, and Milk, for all its admirable qualities, doesn't transcend the problems inherent to biopics; it loses some of its power to the same lumpy conventionality that scotches most cinematic attempts at portraiture.

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.

HS: At times, people can get stuck on measuring stuff and never really get to the real conversation.

As with any such list, there was no shortage of outrage and ire — over the measuring stick, over the people I inadvertently left out, over the wisdom (or lack thereof) of developing such a ranking at all.

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.

Then, there needs to be a renewed sense of political courage to select an appropriate assessment to measure student mastery of state standards and stick with it for at least several years.

Previous research that looked at test scores as the sole measuring stick found a rise in housing prices of 2 percent to 5 percent.

Like it or not, publishers are using social media as a measuring stick so wouldn't be nice if we could impress or at least pass the inspection?

But sony had more without dates... And most games were multiplat at sony... but the exclusives were awesome like days gone and god of war and horizon zero dawn... i hope these games comes to the neo with some nice improvements... so sony exclusives were so awesome to me But MS had more exclusives to their plarforms and hardware... so to say who won depends on what measuring stick used....

It appears to me, that someone was prophesying that civilization will eventually collapse so that time will no longer be measured, humanity will go extinct hence the Crone (lesbian aunt) and Mother but no Virgin Daughter, we are all going to He (double hockey sticks), metaphorically of course but at the same time all to literally thus the blank Book of Life; and yet in spite of it all the Biosphere will manage to survive after suffering a lot of loss of diversity as depicted by the Skeletal Hart.

Also as I see it at present, those rigorous scientists (the «hockey team») are avoiding the need to «update the proxies» and instead are continuing to rely of the «spliced» hockey stick (un-updated proxies spliced on to «dodgy» measured instrument data) as the primary evidence for AGW.

Then pointed them at the sun, and using surface mount thermocouples stuck to the back of each panel, measured the temperature at the center of the panel.

Mosh, I think you must be confused about what is a measurement, unless you think an old physics professor of mine at Ga Tech was wrong to teach measuring length of objects using the human eyeball and a meter - stick to record rounded values with estimates of error.

2 cups plus 2 tablespoons sifted cake flour (not self - rising; sift before measuring) 1 teaspoon baking powder 3/4 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 stick unsalted butter, softened 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 2 large eggs, at room temperature 30 minutes 1 cup well - shaken buttermilk

And, in fact, when one removes the black line from measured temperatures and looks at only proxies, the hockey stick shape goes away:

Arrival in an exponential age does not take place in an instant, but at a rate of change measured by the proverbial «hockey stick.»

At the time of its launch, some customers expressed disappointment that the iPad 3 measured thicker than its predecessor, while otherwise sticking almost exactly to the design of the second - gen iPad.

We measured the Streaming Stick + length at exactly 3.75 inches, so check your TV and consider picking up an HDMI adapter like this if you think you might need one.

The Stick Up Cam has a modest appearance and measures 4.98 inches x 2.43 inches x.87 inches (12.65 centimeters x 6.17 centimeters x 2.21 centimeters) and weighs in at 9.1 ounces (258 grams).

The Streaming Stick is the larger of the two, measuring 12.7 x 83.8 x 20.3 mm while the Streaming Stick + is a little more slender, coming in at 11.9 x 94 x 20.3 mm.

And advertising without the ability to measure your ROI is just throwing money at something and hoping it sticks.

I made myself up at ninety to look much like Nolte's mug shot with hair all askew, except that I had a goofy smile, a blacked out a front tooth and I stuck two bandages in a cross formation on my right cheek; I was also four days unshaven, just for good measure.

Just as you do in your business, we use growth, productivity and profitability gains as a measuring stick to see how well we're doing at fulfilling our mission.

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.