Sentences with phrase «of a yardstick»

Molecules ranked at one end of the yardstick stank to high heaven.

Co-founder of the Northeast Foundation for Children, home of the Responsive Classroom ® approach, Wood is also the author of Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4 - 14.

The New York band are well known for their quality underground music and aesthetic refinement, their sleeves always a bit of a yardstick by which tastes of the day can be defined.

Generally, the firm with three partners, an associate and five support staff has seen an upward trend in fees, although Gossin perceives hourly rates as something of a yardstick rather than a hard and fast tool.

In terms of a yardstick by which to measure the government's progress, one instructive source can be found on the Labour Party's own website, which lists a «Top 50» of achievements from 11 years in office.

Even so, you can use them as one of the yardsticks in determining how your child's development has progressed relative to other children of the same age.

But because of Yardstick's e-commerce offerings and the company's investment in its website, the firm's brand has begun to gain recognition in the U.S. and Europe.

Preachers need to speak with the sharp straightness of a yardstick.

That distance, the «astronomical unit», is the first in a system of yardsticks that now extends to the farthest reaches of the cosmos.

They treat their favourites with the harshest of yardsticks.

But how good of a yardstick is it?

At the beginning of the week, each child's clothespin is clipped to the green part of the yardstick.

The banded pattern on the surface of the yardstick extended toward the iconic Hollywood sign evokes a white dashed highway line, suggesting the long expanses of open road one may experience traveling west to Los Angeles from Chicago, where the artist has lived and worked for many years.

There the case - law is traced from the seminal speeches in White v White [2001] 1 AC 596 and Miller v Miller; McFarlane v McFarlane [2006] 2 AC 618 through the subsequent increasing sophistication of the impact of the distinction on the application of the yardstick of equality and of the sharing principle (Charman v Charman (No 4)[2007] 1 FLR 1246, Jones v Jones [2011] 1 FLR 1723 etc) and on through the differing approaches adopted at first instance.

Good to Know: To make your own beam compass, duct tape a pencil to one end of a yardstick with the point about 1/2 an inch past the edge.

I agree that a wall of yardsticks would be amazing:) It would be perfect in a craft room!

We can't read every page of your book, so we need some sort of yardstick.

At the opposite end of the yardstick, Chevrolet showed a «freshened» Trax subcompact crossover.

Nationally - known educator Wood is the co-founder of the Northeast Foundation for Children and author of Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4 - 14 and Time to Teach, Time to Learn: Changing the Pace of School.

The door side pockets aren't huge, however, and the bottle holders won't take a bottle of wine (a bit of a yardstick, in our books!).

The price seems right, if you look at the $ 399 Google Nexus 10 Android tablet as something of a yardstick.

Tape a plastic cup to one end of the yardstick.

If our record is better than that of these yardsticks, we consider it a good year whether we are plus or minus.

While Stevens quickly added that he was still drafting his own opinions, I find it fascinating that one of the yardsticks the Justice used to measure whether to retire imposed a standard that the other eight justices on the Supreme Court can't meet.

Did you sell all of the yardstick arrows?