Sentences with phrase «measuring stick by»

Our core values are the measuring stick by which all decisions are made on a daily basis as a team and as a practice.

If effectiveness must be the measuring stick by which we judge activist documentaries, then consider the impact of Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe's (T) ERROR, about the FBI's post-9 / 11 efforts to identify and deter potential domestic terrorists before they act.

Tennessee has established itself as a dynasty by winning the NCAA title three times in the past five years, and the Lady Vols are, in many ways, the measuring stick by which Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer assesses the progress of her own program.

Not exact matches

Relevance is important and so is overall reach, so one of the metrics I use as my yard stick for top digital marketing experts is Retweets, as measured by awesome influencer and content discovery tool BuzzSumo.

The way Facebook, which continues to be Twitter's measuring stick, has endured so much adversity is through a strong leadership team, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg.

If businesses decide to stick with older versions of Windows, Adaptiva predicts that Microsoft could encourage adoption by through measures like reducing support for the older Windows versions.

The central bank stuck to its December guidance for the PCE, a measure to track the prices of goods and services purchased by consumers in the economy.

By the measuring stick of the labour market, Yellen has been one of the most successful Fed chairs.

When you make the greatest virtue of «standing up for your faith,» people judge their faithfulness by using conflict as a measuring stick.

The kingdom is a revolutionary magnitude that can not be measured by our measuring sticks; and, being immeasurable, it reveals the vanity of what is.

You know better than to measure your self - worth by the measuring sticks of another.

By the way, evolution can not do either the first - Observe evolution nor can they do the last, measure of true science Seek duplication Thank you «Bill Nye the Propaganda Guy» but please stick to observable stuff!!!

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.

Behind the steady offense of seniors Stolken and Shelby Stender and the stifling defense led by junior goalkeeper Caitlin Golding, the Mustangs rolled through the competition to set up a semifinal showdown with 11 - time SJS Division I champion and regional measuring stick Davis.

Mbappe is the yard stick by which young offensive talent can be measured on a domestic or on the international radar.

Its hard to believe that manu lost 6 - 1 to man city, take nothing away from man city but every club uses manu as a measuring stick to compare themselves too, I really wish it was arsenal that gave that drubbing, I remember not long ago I was watching arsenal lose to manu by that you know what scoreline and my father (a manu fan) walk away, when it was 3 something becoz he couldn't watch a far one sided match, so I guess he is feeling what we are feeling that day, manu is always a side that neva lose by a huge margin no matter what, but tell you da truth I don't like man city becoz I do nt like a side that will spend and replace every single player and still have classy players on the bench, they can say that we won that and this but that becoz of the huge wages that we are paid, I just don't like football to be won by having money to spend there should be a mixture of everything good, middle and work in progress players.

Do what makes you happy, don't measure your self by the lactavist yard stick.

In line with darn near everyone else who has to deal with lengthy bouts of whipping winds, snow measured by the foot, and cold that makes the inside of your nose STICK TO ITSELF, I have to mind freak myself into coping with the blues that accompany the harshest season.

It can sometimes seem like being potty trained is the stick by which your child's preschool readiness is measured.

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.

The posters earned their most stinging rebuke from Cardinal Vincent Nichols, leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, who avoided mentioning Ukip by name but urged politicians to stick to a more measured tone when discussing immigration.

US Senate candidate Gary Berntsen is both sticking up for, and lending a measure of credibility to, the call by GOP gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio, for AG Andrew Cuomo to investigate the mosque slated for construction not far from Ground Zero, saying it poses a «real and considerable threat» to New Yorkers and the nation as a whole.

«The measuring stick of greatest significance are the results from June 26 of last year where Charles Barron lost the congressional race by 42 points, an unprecedented display of district - wide irrelevance,» said Jeffries spokeswoman Lupe Todd.

(5) A program bill for SEIU 1199: A measure backed by powerful health workers union 1199 SEIU that would allow home health aides to perform services typically done by nurses is stuck in the Assembly's rules committee with no Senate sponsor.

The governor insists that he's sticking to all of the 10 points in the agenda for now, but, when pressed by reporters, did not completely rule out separating the abortion measure from the rest.

The group used novel sensors that stick like barnacles to the sea floor — allowing them to survive Ivan's fury — to measure wave height by monitoring water pressure.

For the animals that were born in 2014, the researchers also measured the level of confidence exhibited by the animals using a so - called stick test.

The climate change «hockey stick» is a graph first published in 1998 by Michael Mann et al. that attempted to reconstruct the mean surface temperature on the planet during the period A. D. 900 to the present, using multiple proxies, such as tree rings, to measure temperatures before formal instrumentation was in use.

The researchers found in a study that when punitive measures from regulatory agencies were followed by help from business support organizations, companies were more likely to stick to voluntary improvement projects than when these projects were followed by punitive regulatory actions, said Suvrat S. Dhanorkar, assistant professor of supply change management, Penn State.

Stick your index finger into Habit's veggie - meter and it measures how many fruits and veggies are in your system by the carotenoid pigments in the skin of your fingertip.

Sometimes programs are measured by how many teens take virginity pledges, not whether the teens stick to them, avoid sexually transmitted diseases or unplanned pregnancies, says Rosenbaum.

How is it that I remain in ketosis, as measured by keto sticks, after having eaten low carbohydrate meal of salad, nuts, seeds and dressing?

And that's no way to live life, because in order to live a happy, successful life, you need to be your own cheerleader, and measure your own success by your own metre stick.

A good measuring stick would be Alexander Payne's Election (1999), which was also adapted from a novel by Tom Perotta and was a good deal tighter and more fearless; that movie sustained its biting humor, while Little Children can't quite decide on a tone.

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.

And not all of them, including the category he added years later — naturalistic — could be easily evaluated by the standard measuring stick of the time: the IQ test.

Evaluating schools by the AYP measuring stick is typically justified on the grounds that it ensures that «no child shall be left behind.»

The imperfections of the NCLB measuring stick are magnified by the fact that it divides all schools into just two categories, pass or fail («making AYP» or not).

Judged by this measuring stick, Won't Back Down does a fine job of sketching out the problems with the status quo — a lack of quality options, unresponsive bureaucracies, entrenched interests — in a way that resonates.

For whatever reason — and it really is something of a mystery — some parents will choose and stick with schools that are no good by any measure of actual performance.

He proposes to preserve testing requirements but create a better measuring stick, require teachers be evaluated by performance (not credentials), and use carrots instead of sticks to encourage progress.

Our analysis of its workings in Florida reveals it to be badly flawed and not as accurate as the measuring stick employed by the state of Florida for similar purposes.

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.

Another sticking point is the requirement from the Obama administration that students» test scores or other measures of academic growth be a «significant factor» in teacher evaluations by 2014.

Wisconsin schools that adopted the non-punitive disciplinary measures advocated by the Obama administration (and now, the GAO) had lower reading and math achievement than schools that stuck with traditional discipline.

Participation from our families is an important measuring stick used by corporations and foundations in awarding funding.

Supporters say the new measuring sticks could improve U.S. educational performance by holding teachers accountable for students» progress.

Measuring that amount by the dip stick reading isn't particularly accurate.

The Porsche Panamera Turbo is the fastest mass - produced sedan in history, by virtually any measuring stick one would care to use.

For the last seven years the Renault Clio RS has been the yard stick by which all other compact hot hatches have been measured.