Sentences with phrase «of a yardstick by»

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.

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But once Bannister did it, all of a sudden other runners started repeating the feat, and today the four - minute mile is considered a yardstick by which all distance runners are measured.

«We often use that service as the thin edge of the wedge,» says Kureluk, pointing out that this software gives Yardstick the opportunity to upsell other products and services to its customers, such as the «e-learning» software tools developed by a firm that Yardstick bought earlier this year and sold online.

The amount of equity the owner has in the business is an important yardstick used by investors when evaluating the company.

By that yardstick, today the measure of a good brand is that it resists a fixed definition.

The health of the economy at the end of four years is a second yardstick by which Buffett said he'd evaluate the Republican Trump administration.

Mr. Agrawal also had a distinct idea how he program's success would be measured: not by number of jobs or startups generated — a typical yardstick — but equity value created by CDL companies as they raised money.

For sure, this is smartness, in the secular meaning of the word, as measured by the yardstick of achievement in the secular realm.

In the teaching of Jesus, goodness is not measurable by any yardstick.

His yardstick for measuring democracy, however, is primarily one of national election, Western - style, while China «remains one of the very few countries in the world today that does not even pretend to choose its leaders by popular election» (p. xi).

manpower, funds, space) to the exclusion of other ideas, and it allows greater diversity in expression by avoiding the use of the «church vision» as the yardstick of validity instead of the relationship with God.

If any one of our guys had scored 2 goals against an appalling side like Club Brugges you wouldn't be able to wait to tell everyone how that shouldn't be a yardstick to measure anyone by.

As if he's some sort of yardstick to which others should go by.

It wasn't the best performance from the Gunners by any yardstick but their ability to pull one out of the bag in such games is a mark of champions and is one that'll amply please boss Arsene Wenger.

... Legal change has been constrained because marriage serves as the yardstick by which law reformers measure other adult relationships as worthy of mutual rights and obligations in the family arena.

In my experience, nothing can make you feel more like you have just been measured by The Yardstick Of The Approval Of Others like parenting can.

The Rules are the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent World Health Assembly resolutions (the Code), which are the yardstick to measure compliance by all companies in all countries.

Some of my friends in the media vigorously attack Nigerian journalists and statesmen who openly commend the Ghanaian administration for the strides made so far.Chief Dele Momodu recently said this about of our President «People don't know why I love Ghana so much and the current leader in particular.He is modest, not flamboyant as we see of other leaders», on BBC few days ago Nigerians interviewed used the positive signs in Ghana as appropriate yardstick to attack their government, a documentary going round in the international media exposes the lackadaisical performance of the Nigerian government using the positive performance recorded under John Mahama.The latest BBC reports on the Nigerian economy captures that the cost of living in Nigeria continue to soar and in June, accelerated to 16.5 % the highest rate in almost 11 years.Gari which is supposed to be the cheapest commodity in the country can not be afforded by the poor.

Political interests should not also be the yardstick for breaking the rule on the joint account and usurping the functions of local governments by depriving them of their due share from central pool.

At the very least, though, they provide a yardstick by which we can measure the outcome of the Eastleigh vote.

«I think you're getting a little fixated by vote shares at general elections and using these as the definitive yardstick of the health or otherwise of a particular political party.»

«We are clear that the yardsticks for testing the credibility and reliability of victims in sexual abuse cases do not serve the police or prosecutors well and risk leaving an identifiable group of vulnerable victims unprotected by the criminal law.

The leadership of the South - South zone of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has defended appointments so far made by President Muhammadu Buhari, contending that political appointments are not the yardstick for development.

A statement by the PRO, Joseph Attah, said the meeting which was presided by the Minister of Finance and chairman of the board, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, considered the yardsticks for the promotion.

There is also an odor object version of «banana,» a combination of the inherent pleasantness of the molecules released by the fruit (as measured by Sobel's yardstick) and our subjective mental state when we encounter them.

So a good rule of thumb is to use marriage as a yardstick: while a boyfriend should not «lead» his girlfriend or potential partner to the level of a husband and wife — which is to say he is not yet charged by God to lead, cover, provide and protect — he can absolutely encourage her already present devotion and natural gifts.

The impact of work group behavior results in standards and yardsticks that are sanctioned by group norms.

The panel was ordered to assess the adequacy of school funding by applying a test established in a landmark education case from Kentucky, a yardstick the three judges used Tuesday.

Yardsticks Vary by Nation in Calling Education to Account Education Week, January 12, 2012 «Daniel Koretz, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, laments the intense «weight and faith given to test scores» in the United States.

We can check this by comparing the federal yardstick with the one used byFlorida as part of its state accountabilitysystem.

When we adjusted the gains made by students in each school to take into account a wide variety of individual and peer - group background characteristics, such as ethnicity, English language - learner status, family income, and student mobility rates, the yardstick's performance actually worsened.

One of the goals of the Common Core was to make comparisons across states possible by measuring all students with the same yardstick.

There is no evidence that any policy set by the new administration was based upon any yardstick other than a yardstick of political expediency.

We believe that operating a successful school requires constant attention in six important areas that we call Measures of Excellence, and we evaluate our organization and each of our schools by these measures of excellence.Our Six Measures of Excellence are the yardsticks we use to evaluate our effectiveness in providing a challenging, effective program of study and strong moral development in a safe, nurturing environment.

Yet that kind of learning has been made harder by the lack of common yardsticks that enable thoughtful comparison and study.

After all, the results of the test were the yardstick by which the effectiveness of every school in Georgia was measured.

MD. 1.1: Measure the length of an object by selecting and using the appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, and measuring tape.

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The National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) is administered by the U.S. Department of Education to measure student achievement across the nation with a common yardstick.

In the case of the 997 Carrera that's criminal, because it remains a special car by any yardstick.

There's plenty of petrol - powered hot hatchback to rival the ST. Peugeot's 308 GTi 270 by Peugeot Sport has a sweet, zingy turbo - four lending it true appeal and, of course, the Volkswagen GTi still remains the segment yardstick, although quite pricey with the basic car starting near # 28k.

Why Edmunds Recommends the 2017 Mercedes - Benz S - Class: The flagship of the Mercedes - Benz lineup, the S - Class is not only the automaker's crown jewel, but it's also the yardstick by which other elite executive - class sedans are measured.

Using income as the yardstick, not a specific number of sales, is essential: Publishers might otherwise be able to game the clause by offering one - cent e-books the way they've gamed existing clauses by using e-books and print - on - demand..

There is a great weight of responsibility on the shoulders of Motorola's 10.1 - inch tablet: people are using it as a yardstick by which to measure the success of Android tablets against the Apple iPad, a comparison that isn't completely fair (not that you care about ethics when handling over your cash) and one that is likely to shift dramatically during the Xoom's life.

+ read full definition they invest in (for example, gold or grain), or by tracking a commodity indexIndex A benchmark or yardstick that lets you measure the performance of a stock market, part of a stock market or a single investment.

By that criterion, both the Telstra stock's and the Commonwealth bond's payback period is unacceptably long; and by this absolute, more challenging — and, to mainstream investors, virtually unknown — yardstick, neither of these securities are compellinBy that criterion, both the Telstra stock's and the Commonwealth bond's payback period is unacceptably long; and by this absolute, more challenging — and, to mainstream investors, virtually unknown — yardstick, neither of these securities are compellinby this absolute, more challenging — and, to mainstream investors, virtually unknown — yardstick, neither of these securities are compelling.

Many institutional investors who invest primarily in Nasdaq stocks use this index as a yardstick by which to measure the performance of their portfolios.

In December of 1996, the price to peak earnings ratio (Popup: Why we use price / peak - earnings) was 21, a record at the time by that yardstick.

A statistical yardstick, determined by tracking the ups and downs of a particular market by monitoring a group of securities over time.

But you can use the resulting present value figure that you get by discounting your cash flows back at the long - term Treasury rate as a common yardstick just to have a standard of measurement across all businesses.»