Sentences with phrase «normal frame of reference»

Of course, I could justify including the AIM & MSCI Emerging Markets indices in my benchmark, but let's try resist that brand new temptation... After all, for most readers / investors, a normal frame of reference is obviously one or more large - cap developed market indices — for them, departing from that universe into what most would perceive as riskier small / micro-caps & emerging markets implies / demands a strong expectation of superior returns... which clearly didn't happen last year!

For the model year 1998, i.e. with deliveries commencing from the second half of 1997 onward, some of the features of the Bentley Continental T became available on the new Bentley Turbo RT, which replaced the Bentley Turbo R. With an engine achieving 400 bhp and a maximum torque of 590 lb / ft (800 Nm), attained between 2000 and 3450 rpm, the experience of driving a Bentley RT was almost outside the normal frame of reference.

But that's hard to do,» says Tracey Lipsig Kite, MSW, a licensed therapist in Evanston, Ill. «It doesn't have a normal frame of reference.

Not exact matches

That development pattern — bad becoming normal — is made possible by two things: human adaptability to shifting circumstances and cutting away a comparative frame of reference.