Sentences with phrase «of standard gauges»

Audi's slick Virtual Cockpit is offered with a 12.3 - inch screen in place of standard gauges, using quad - core processing and Google Maps.

The creation of a standard gauge railway to Juba in South Sudan, with a branch line to Ethiopia, at a cost of over $ 7 billion (Sh595 billion).

Inside, the driver faces a bank of three LCD readouts in place of the standard gauge cluster.

Not exact matches

Since the passage of the Small Business Act, the SBA has developed size standards for every industry to gauge whether a company qualifies as a «small business» or not.

Another way to gauge the strength of a company is to companies with similar credit ratings - which the big credit rating agencies, Moody's and Standard & Poor's (S&P)- provide for investors to look up.

When Nixon went off the gold standard in 1971, an ounce of gold would have cost $ 35 USD, nine years later gold printed its bull market high of $ 850 USD / oz, though the average price of $ 459 / oz from 1979 would be a better gauge of how high gold went during the bull market of the 1970's.

The literary tropes of sex and death in the Twilight series, it has to be said, are well worn, as worn as the ruts in the Roman roads that turned into the standard gauge for European railroads.

The standard of «affirmative consent» (the much - mocked gradualist approach of Antioch College), and renewed inquiries into how alcohol erases agency (and how a prospective partner can gauge inebriation), are not wrong, but they're a long way from being fully right.

Freeden: The «correctness» of thinking politically is to be gauged either on ethical standards or within a framework of ideological preferences (the two may overlap).

Vanguard recalls that the House of Representatives, had on October 14 based on a motion promoted by Rep Solomon Ahwhinawi, PDP, Delta had set up the adhoc committee to probe contracts awarded for the rehabilitation of rail tracks, standard gauge, bridges, coaches, wagons and locomotives between 2010 and 2014 amounting to N1 trillion.

The new Lagos - Ibadan rail, spanning 156.65 kilometres, is a double line, which is the first phase of a new Lagos - Kano standard gauge line.

You can not carry meaningful development on trucks on the highways... Development has to be carried on the back of a modern railway system and the president has made that a top priority and today we can say on the implementation platform is 5oookm of modern standard gauge railway that will cut across the length and breadth of this country.

The most important being that the leadership of the National Assembly has given us a commitment that the National Assembly will re-instate the budgetary allocations for all the important executive projects, such as the railway standard gauge projects, the Mambilla Power Project, the Second Niger Bridge, the Lagos — Ibadan Expressway etc. which they had reduced to fund some of the new projects they introduced.

According to him, former President Olusegun Obasanjo designed and raised the financing and started the «EPC of the Lagos - Kano dual track - standard gauge rail system, and the Abuja Light Rail.»

Nwodo also demanded urgent presidential interventions on the Enugu Airport, reticulation of the gas pipelines in the South - East and the standard gauge plan for railway construction.

«Similarly, we are investing in the Lagos to Kano standard gauge line, the Lagos Ibadan portion of that is expected to be ready by the end of this year.

Construction work on the Lagos - Ibadan standard gauge rail has been suspended over right of way issues and a flyover bridge at Ijoko, Ogun State.

Amaechi said that government had commenced rehabilitation of the narrow gauge to reduce the pressure of cargoes on the road, adding that the challenges on the standard gauge was the track.

The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, who inspected the Lagos - Ibadan Standard Gauge railway praised the contractors on the current pace of work.

Medicinal chemist Lester Mitscher and his colleagues at the University of Kansas, Lawrence decided to test a number of possible antioxidant compounds in green tea, red wine, and vitamins C and E for their ability to prevent bacterial cells from mutating, a standard test for gauging a compound's anticancer capabilities.

The 8 - year - old Office of Research Integrity (ORI), a small unit within the Department of Health and Human Services, hopes to support studies aimed at gauging the frequency of misconduct and how to raise ethical standards.

What's more, the team found that the mothers» scores on a standard test that gauges the degree of a mom's attachment to her infant could be predicted to a significant degree based on the changes in their gray matter volume during pregnancy.

Standard HIV tests, which look for antibodies to the virus using a so - called enzyme immunoassay, are one way to gauge the size of the epidemic.

Amidst the societal changes, standardization crept in, from ensuring nuts and bolts were made identically to maintain production quality, to a standard railroad gauge used on both sides of the Atlantic.

Researchers used standard tests to gauge people's memory skills, along with functional MRI scans to track their brain activity as they performed one of the memory tasks.

Is there any kind of gauge that, for example, assesses «recommended» protein levels vs. level of physical activity (or, for that matter, standard rate of tissue deterioration for the individual)?

It's the kind of movie one can't really gauge by the usual standards, just by how funny you find it, and opinions will widely vary depending on the viewer's aptitude to laugh at pot humor and crude bathroom and sex jokes of the most outrageous variety.

Attacks are also split between standard and magic attacks, the latter of which use up your MP gauge.

OLD Abismos de pasion (Luis Buñuel, 1954) Alyy parus Parizha (The Scarlet Sail of Paris, Marlen Khutsiev, 1971) All that Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955) Les anges du péché (Angels of Sin, Robert Bresson, 1943) Another Prayer (Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2013) Au quatre coins (Jacques Rivette, 1948) Benilde ou a Virgem Mãe (Benilde, or the Virgin Mother, Manoel de Oliveira, 1975) Brian De Palma at the Metrograph Bruce Conner at Museum of Modern Art Cadaveri eccellenti (Illustrious Corpses, Francesco Rosi, 1976) Ching se (Green Snake, Tsui Hark, 1993) Cold Turkey (Norman Lear, 1971) Danièle Huillet and Jean - Marie Straub at the Museum of Modern Art Dao ma zei (The Horse Thief, Tian Zhuangzhaung, 1986) Le diverssement (Jacques Rivette, 1952) La escuela de Barcelona at the International Film Festival Rotterdam Wieczór (An Evening, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2013) From the Notebook of... (Robert Beavers, 1971) Hachimiri Madness at the Berlinale The Inside Story (Allan Dwan, 1948) Joe Dante at BAM Karla (Herrmann Zsschoche, 1965) Kiga kaikyô (Straits of Hunger, Tomu Uchida, 1964) The Landlord (Hal Ashby, 1970) Leo McCarey at the Museum of Modern Art Lillian Schwartz at Magenta Plains Dupe od mramora (Marble Ass, Želimir Žilnik, 1995) Masao Adachi at the International Film Festival Rotterdam Part Time Wife (Leo McCarey, 1930) Pere Portabella at the International Film Festival Rotterdam Peter Hutton at the Viennale and Anthology Film Archives Modlitwa (A Prayer, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2013) Raúl Ruiz at the Film Society of Lincoln Center Robert Aldrich at the Metrograph Robert Frank at BAM Standard Gauge (Morgan Fischer, 1984) Tout une nuit (Chantal Akerman, 1982) Ukikusa monogatari (A Story of Floating Weeds, Yasujiro Ozu, 1934) Le quadrille (Jacques Rivette, 1950) Qing mei zhu ma (Taipei Story, Edward Yang, 1985)

The studies are the first to gauge the effects of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's controversial academic standards known as Proposition 16.

Nonetheless, NCLB offered some positive changes that the new ESSA maintains, including academic standards, annual assessments of reading and math achievement, and report cards on schools that students, parents and the public can use to gauge results.

To gauge public views on this subject, we asked half of our respondents to indicate which level of government should play the biggest role in three areas: 1) setting educational standards for what students should know; 2) deciding whether or not a school is failing; and 3) deciding how to fix failing schools.

Those performance levels turned out to be as useful to policymakers, parents, and journalists — a true gauge of student progress at the state and national levels, the closest America has yet come to any sort of national standards — as they are unloved by some experts.

They all «fall short of the scientific standards necessary to gauge overall effectiveness.»

The strength of this relationship may be gauged by comparing the change in quality associated with changes in the school's position in the national test - score ranking: the results show that an increase of 50 percentile points is associated with an increase of 0.15 standard deviations in student perceptions of teacher practices (see Figure 1).

Employees can use online training objectives to set their sights on the desired outcome and learn what's expected of them, while organizations rely on them to set training standards and gauge proficiency.

WASHINGTON — Asserting that the current education system has produced expectations for student performance that are «simply too low,» a Congressionally mandated panel last week called for high national standards for student achievement and a national system of assessments to gauge their attainment.

Overturning a lower - court decision, the supreme court on Dec. 9 ruled that the process used to determine whether the test is valid for gauging home schoolers» abilities «fail [ed] to meet a standard of reasonableness.»

Your tech writers document the standard use cases, your training developers try to anticipate where errors and miscommunications are going to occur, but you need feedback from your customers before you can gauge the success or failure of your training.

The AR321 is fitted with relay control and analogue gauges as standard, for ease of use and serviceability.

To find out, we first asked individuals whether or not they had heard of the standards (we asked this question before gauging support).

The Office of Technology Assessment, a nonpartisan analytical agency, expressed its concern at a hearing here on the recently released report of the National Council on Education Standards and Testing, which called for national standards for student performance and a system of assessments to gauge performance against the standards.

Academic standards in core subjects would be the same across the land, as would tests and other gauges of performance.

Every state needs tests and other assessments that accurately gauge the performance of individual children, schools, and school systems in relation to its standards.

Wixson and Dutro (in press) conducted a document analysis of 42 state standards in early reading / language arts as a way to gauge how the variability in standards might influence their translation into local curriculum, instruction and assessment.

The legislation passed by the Assembly last month would create a 15 - member task force to investigate Common Core, a set of English and math standards that spell out what students should know and when, and the tests created to gauge students» mastery of the standards.

DIVISION MISSION:: The mission of the Accountability Services Division is to promote the academic achievement of all North Carolina public school students and to assist stakeholders in understanding and gauging this achievement against state and national standards.

As a first step, you will need to gauge your basic knowledge of the standards — asking yourself if you are informed about the standards themselves, your state / district's approach to implementation, recommendation from experts, models from other states, and national updates and trends.

The hastily called hearing sought to be a forum for the various groups to air mounting concerns about implementation of the new standards and especially the new testing, which will not only gauge how much students have learned but will also be used in measuring teacher performance under the state's new evaluation guidelines.

Since 1916, AFT has worked to continually strengthen teacher quality, promote higher standards and better ways of gauging student learning, and implement classroom and school improvements.