Sentences with phrase «not measure myself against»

Don't measure yourself against other people.

I'm open to any opinion because I don't measure it against my religious predispositions.

You can not measure them against the teachings of Jesus.

It is impossible to gauge students» academic achievement when private school voucher students and public school students are not measured against the same standard.

I don't get why analysts seem to forget that Asus has done pretty darn well with the Transformer (when it's not measured against the irrational exuberance exhibited by the iPad phenomenon).

The Ty we see in «Caddyshack» doesn't measure himself against anything, really.

Ty Webb didn't measure himself against anything, really.

In most cases, these high expectation agents aren't measuring you against their broker or the other brokers in the market.

Not exact matches

With epic cinematography, «Amazing China» — produced by China Central Television and the state - owned China Film Group Co. Ltd. — articulates a message of how China would like to be seen as it pursues President Xi Jinping's vision of a globally resurgent nation, against a reality that doesn't always measure up.

The leadership team also has regular «credo sessions,» where Gorsky will guide the company's top executives through the credo and facilitate discussions of what's working and what isn't, as measured against its ideals.

Expect the US to push for sanctions, diplomatic talks, investments in missile defenses — the types of measures taken against other nuclear powers — but don't expect a nuclear exchange.

A vote on the measure was delayed for hours after Democrats revolted against provisions to roll back part of the Dodd - Frank financial reform law and allow more big money political donations, while conservative Republicans objected because the measure did not block funds for Obama's immigration order.

But the first of many boycotts against Nike was followed by corporate efforts at reform, and the company now has a history of holding suppliers to account and cutting off those that don't measure up.

The jury's still out on whether these measures have been a success or not, but for now, it appears as if banks are hedging against their own policies.

Perfectionists can't help but measure themselves against other people, so taking someone down a notch, especially if that person is a threat, feels good.

Republicans and trade groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have fought back against the measure at every turn, saying it will be too expensive, could mislead investors and is not material to a company's financial statements.

Besides simply viewing meetings as «a big company thing,» entrepreneurs are «constantly pushing, and always on, they don't consider the important of cadenced checkpoints to measure the progress against their goals, and reevaluate that their previously agreed goals should continue to be their goals,» he writes.

«So whenever you're measuring yourself against other people first, you're not sure of yourself, and that's what insecurity is.

We measure competitiveness against other nations and regions of the world, not just other U.S. states.

The meetings are not expected to discuss further punitive measures against Moscow because Britain, France, Germany and Italy are members of the 28 - nation European Union, which must agree collectively on what steps to take, said two diplomats briefed on the meeting.

And, even if the Front National and other far - right parties do not get added support following the attacks, their dynamic has placed current governments under more and more pressure to take drastic measures against real and perceived threats.

This repeated counting is not an issue, since the objective of the analysis is to measure the number of mini flash crashes in the test window against the number of mini flash crashes in each window of similar duration during the control period.

He noted that although Apple has characterized it as a pro-shareholder measure, not everyone agrees with that assessment, citing a report from one independent proxy service called Egan - Jones that recommended shareholders vote against the proposal.

The three European leaders «agreed that the U.S. ought not to take any trade measures against the European Union,» which is «resolved to defend its interests within the multilateral trade framework,» Merkel's statement said.

Exacerbating the issue is that owners of lower - priced homes likely don't have the resources to take preventative measures against the rising tides, like putting in sea walls or making changes to foundations to withstand intermittent flooding.

In doing so, we are balancing the improvement in our quantitative measures, as well as our qualitative analysis, against our tolerance for risk (we prefer investment positions that allow us to be dead wrong about everything and still not experience intolerable losses).

«I wouldn't be surprised about discussions on very severe measures against the Venezuelan government.

As my research shows, there are always competing voices lobbying for and against trade protection, and those preferences alone aren't enough to push a protective measure into law.

Although Trump didn't specify which countries or products will be affected, the punitive measures are part of a broader campaign to level the playing field against international competitors.

It's not enough to set targets, you also have to determine how you'll measure and report progress against them.

Lawmakers like Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith, a Democrat from Orlando, voted against the bill because it did not include a ban on assault weapons or other broad measures sought by survivors of all the shootings.

To date, we do not see a systemic threat from leveraged lending, since broad measures of credit outstanding do not suggest that nonfinancial borrowers, in the aggregate, are taking on excessive debt and the improved capital and liquidity positions at lending institutions should ensure resilience against potential losses due to their exposures.

The broader measure of the US TWI, which reflects currency moves against all significant trading partners, has not adjusted down as much.

According to the New York Times, «Known as the Freelance Isn't Free Act, the measure requires anyone hiring a freelance worker to agree in writing to a timetable and procedure for payment, and increases the potential awards to freelancers bringing legal complaints against those who have failed to pay them promptly.»

It's just not a good look to be fighting against regulatory measures that would protect privacy while your CEO preaches about how important users» data privacy is to him, and promising to make internal changes to better protect it.

Sales - to - Price has the benefit of measuring against revenue which is tough to manipulate, but doesn't take margins into account.

Here is an important detail: The starting point against which those gains will be measured isn't the fund's actual net asset value on March 31, but rather the deeply discounted price the new buyers are paying..

Besides, again, on the verrrrry odd chance that this has even a shred of truth to it (and I'd put good money against it) you - can not - talk about security measures, at all.

Fighting the unholy black pall of islam, a fight that would be won with such a policy, should be the only thing that matters.For those that will not support such a measure, you are not soldiers against islam.

The notorious Dred Scott decision (1837) asserted that because slaves were their masters» property Congress could not ban slavery anywhere in the United States — a holding that ignored the Framers» compromise of tolerating slavery temporarily but allowing eventual measures against it.

Out of all the postings on this site today, I found «Derp's «post the most fascinating and informative, as well as deeply revealing.Even after boasting of what seems to be a practically perfect live by any measure, he informs us that he takes pleasure in mocking and ridiculing those of faith who are presumably his opposite; I can only wonder if, given all his supposed accomplishments, he is smart enough to realize how deeply revealing of his true character his remarks are.As a believer, I rarely engage in arguments with my atheist friends, and like to think I wouldn't lower myself to the level of juvenile name - calling and personal attacks against whatever my atheist friends hold dear.Most of the time we simply agree to disagree; when they hold forth with misinformation or ignorance on their assumed «knowledge «of my faith, I try to gently correct them; I certainly don't allow any disagreements we have to devolve into hateful insults and name - calling.

If I am presented with claims that the variety of uses of «experience» does not and could not reveal any normative essence of experience, I can counter that I have a prelinguistic intuition of the essence of my own experience — an intuition against which the adequacy or confusion of language can be authoritatively measured.

I would say that this is not without its risks, because there are measures from time to time against the movement, preventing its activity etc..

Measure the decision to not support World Vision against this teaching of Christ himself and tell me if it's hypocritical or not ««Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.»

Those who inveighed against the «ugliness» and «divisiveness» of religion in public introduced to our political discourse a loathsome, if not unprecedented, measure of vitriol and hatefulness.

In challenging process theology to state explicitly that God sides with the oppressed, and to do so in a way that does not rule out the possibility of righteous counterviolence, I understand Jones to be challenging process theology to explicate the social - ethical consequences of accepting certain metaphysical truths in order that black theology might measure its ethical content against the needs of the struggle for liberation.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

(Happiness, by itself, is not an adequate criterion for measuring mental health because some people defend themselves against unconscious feeling of despair by a facade of «happiness.»

When one can not measure beliefs against an outside standard, any belief is possible.

With no standard then one is never justified in condemnation of anything since it can not be measured against a standard.