Sentences with phrase «not measuring every point»

Not exact matches

But the truth is that not all complaints are valid, and not all ideas meritorious; it is the leader's responsibility to make measured, informed decisions, and not to pander to data points of one.

But he points to a report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer released earlier this year showing that, since 2009, the debt service ratio — a measure of income spent to pay debt — has remained steady at around 14 per cent, not much higher than the long - term average.

(Though wider than what the NYT / CBS poll measured, Carson's lead still does not clear the new poll's 4.9 - point margin or error.)

«The only real reference point right now is commercial air travel, and we are a victim of our own excellent safety measures,» says Dr. Clay Cowl, chair of the Division of Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota, who was not involved in Castleberry's research.

With the Dow Jones Industrial Average experiencing two 1,000 - point drops in recent weeks, and having fielded many, many investors» calls, I was reminded that investors truly do not know how to measure risk.

And although measuring innovation isn't exactly cut - and - dried, some metrics can point you in the right direction.

At some point in the not - distant future, Griffith will have the most accurate tool around for measuring an individual's (or collective's) energy use as well as a gigantic pile of data, both of which will be commercially quite valuable as we are pushed toward a greener lifestyle.

Equities analysts don't doubt that's the case, but point out that for such large, diversified companies, the gaming business remains a junior part of their operations (although they're huge by any stand - alone measure).

Just like we can't give you points that measure that Intercom is one of the most compelling modern products, but at the same time, we know it is.

«The question from a financial stability point of view is whether or not those measures, to the extent they encourage more credit and more investment, may not buy some more growth today, but increase the risk of some disruption in growth further down the road,» Carolyn Wilkins, the Bank of Canada's senior deputy governor, said at least week's press conference.

On their face, the added levies would boost inflation measures by one - tenth of a percentage point while reducing annual GDP growth by one or two tenths, Barclays said in a note that assumes the moves would not have massive repercussions from U.S. trading partners.

No doubt that will not discourage some readers from using their rulers to measure the graphs and focus on revisions down to the nearest 0.1 percentage point!

My point is only that a country's contribution to global growth can not be calculated by measuring its share of global growth.

One data point does not make a trend, but also take note of the fact that employment growth for June in the U.S. would bring the rolling average of job creation, as measured by the last few months, to less than 150,000.

Direct marketing has always been well - suited for digital advertising; the point of the ad is to drive conversion, and digital is very good, not only at measuring if said conversion occurred, but also at targeting customers most likely to convert in the first place.

The point of the chart above is to illustrate that those with an agenda to ride the trend and look smart are correct when they state that the US stock market is not particularly over valued... if one shuts off one's brain and accepts policy (blue Monetary Base line, which is but one of several money supply measures) as being at all normal or healthy.

In his 2013 shareholder letter, Buffett made a point to tell his investors that Berkshire doesn't measure its earnings that way.

How any of the rest of us measure it at this point in time really is meaningless because we're not driving the markets in that regard.

Buffett doesn't mention airlines directly in his shareholder letter, but it's worth pointing out that airline stocks were trading at 14 times earnings, as measured by the Bloomberg U.S. Airlines Index.

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..

Either earnings have to grow much faster than sales, or sales growth has to come from things that aren't advertising, or the ad industry has to grow much faster than it did in the past, or you have to pick an end point for the year you are measuring to that is very near today - or, you'd end up with Google having a huge share of global advertising spending.

One of our few prior data points on this question comes from the (accidental) 2016 revelation that Zuckerberg covers his laptop's webcam with tape — a privacy measure that's not as paranoid as it might sound.

@Danica, I'm not sure if the metric is valid, but it irks me that you'd feel you had to resort to some kind of straw poll measure to have to prove your point with any authority — the feeling is a symptom that underscores the truth of your point.

Kurien and other economists are not saying that Indian economy is not in need of reforms, but they point out that the «thrust of any alternative reform measures must be towards the welfare of the largest segments of our society.»

Those efforts can not be understood apart from my story, but from the point of view of process thought they can express a measure of transcendence of personal experience.

The point is that the desire for anything is not a criterion or a measure of its goodness.

I'm not arguing here that this kind of society is right and just, far less that it is the biblical pattern — although I could point to Joseph's anti-famine measures in Egypt as a parallel.

Victor does not fault the logic of these elements of the protocol, but he does point out the extreme difficulty of measuring and monitoring them.

In the parable of the Good Samaritan, where love to neighbor is, quite simply, doing for him what needs to be done, in the emergency, the good neighbor is both alien and heretic.28 And at this point, perhaps, some hearers who had assented so far might have had misgivings, even if they did not go to the lengths of those fanatical sectaries whose Manual of Discipline (found among the «Dead Sea Scrolls») enjoined them «to love all the children of light — and to hate all the children of darkness, each according to the measure of his guilt.»

This is a major point because in all our clamour for merit, we end up either in despair, because we don't measure up or do enough, or proud because we think that we have done good.

If by power we intend to signify, as most often is intended, the use of coercive measures whether these be overt or subtle and hidden, then it would seem that to ascribe such a quality to God as His chief characteristic — as in fact, if not in word, is suggested when people talk as did my questioner — is a denial of the point of Christ's disclosure of God.

i agre with Dave and then some - christians (and other folks who are serious in their beliefs too) are comical, believing and praying to someone who can't be seen, can't be proven... (this is from the point of view of an empiricist, who is able to measure things) Christians (well, me for sure) are hypocrits - believing in fantastic ideals and guaranteed to continualy fall short - that is a fairly comical notion, but nonetheless, one I enjoy to continue to strive for - setting high ideals and striving towards them.

Of course, this is not all that Christians believe, or even the major part of what Christians believe, about Jesus Christ; but for our purpose, it is enough now just to admit at least that much, to see here life given in love to the point of complete surrender of self, to agree that the ages witness that this is healthy life, this is wholeness, and then to turn to oneself and ask the very simple but very searching question, «How do I measure up to that standard?»

Since this point is quite crucial, I may be permitted to quote the words of St. Gregory of Nyssa about the purity of the souls of infants: «Whereas the innocent babe has no such plague before its soul's eyes obscuring its measure of light, it continues to exist in that natural life; it does not need the soundness that comes from purgation, because it never admitted the plague into its soul at all».

You do not adopt measures that foreclose the possibility of communicating in the future — a point Minsky roared at ethnic nationalists.

In light of the definition of «a straight line,» however, this would mean that in diverse regions of the space - time continuum under consideration the measuring rod, under prevailing standard conditions or the introduction of correction factors, is not deformed in its length as it is moved from point to point or in differing directions in the space - time continuum.

If they coincide at every point and in every direction, standard conditions prevail, and the first measuring rod is not subject to deformation in its length due to its particular physical composition.

Now, if measurement can be significant only if the measuring rod is free of all deforming influences, not simply those attributed to the influence of «differential» forces, then given a space - time continuum of variable metric structure, no set of conditions can be specified to ensure that the measuring rod does not undergo deformation in its length as it is transported from point to point during the process of measurement.

The point is the canon (from cubit) is the yardstick by which all other yardsticks are measured first,... off a degree in port, miles off course out to sea, i.e. (upon this rock ain't the pope) been there done that,..

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»

I suppose most of us would point to some measure of minimum functionality (viability), like having wheels and / or a motor, but some might insist on the need for windshield wipers or say it's not fully a car until it rolls out onto the street (is born).

Because research looked at the years of 2008 - 2011, the Institute says that the falling numbers were not the result of recent abortion - restricting legislative measures; instead, they pointed to the overall falling birth rate and greater access to contraception.

I've gotten to the point that I don't even measure anymore lol

I pointed this on weight watchers as well and to get down to 3 points a serving I had to show as the recipe makes a total of 14 servings — but I don't want to have to make it and measure out and divide by 14 before I can decide to make it!

CGF is urging all consumer goods companies to phase out harmful hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) focusing on four key points; the installation of new refrigeration equipment in markets where viable, engagement with stakeholders to overcome barriers in markets where installation is not currently viable, reduction of the environmental impact of existing refrigeration systems and the development of individual targets and action plans to measure the first three points.

In all studies, analyses with glucose AUCi, insulin AUCi, measured meal GI and GL, and II values, with the exclusion of a possible outlier (which was defined as any data point beyond 2 SDs from the mean value), did not alter results, and therefore, the data for all subjects who completed all interventions are reported.

Those aren't points that suggest that another team shouldn't want him, or that the 4.50 ERA is the truest measure of his current ability.

If we start this season with those two in our starting 11 it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... neither one of these players should still be with our club at this point because they represent the settling half - measures that have plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams don't have enough talented young players, unlike a Monaco or Dortmund, because they have lost the plot from an organizational standpoint... they are so reliant on one individual to run the whole operation that their once relevant scouting department has become so antiquated that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once had... furthermore, when you leave all decision - making to a manager who despises any dissenting opinions, your management team becomes little more than a stagnant group of «yes men» and no new ideas emerge... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases year after year to stifle dissent from the ticket - buying public, then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again

But natural regression doesn't account entirely for the Raiders» drop — they may not have been 12 wins good last season, but they were still plus - 31 in point differential and a legitimately explosive offense by almost any measure.

For years people were crying out for midfielders with «steel» like Vieira and old school types and then our new signing cops a few reds in games we scraped through and haven't dropped points and you're calling for drastic measures?