Sentences with phrase «of the yardsticks in»

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.

Not exact matches

Better yet, in a world of never - ending to - do lists it provides a yardstick of when to consider the day done and go home.»

Kureluk believes that Yardstick has to get itself in front of potential customers in order to close a deal, and that means working the phones in the traditional way.

In an era in which organizations of all sizes have become preoccupied with training and certification standards, Yardstick Software, an Edmonton firm, has figured out how to profit from our fascination with measuremenIn an era in which organizations of all sizes have become preoccupied with training and certification standards, Yardstick Software, an Edmonton firm, has figured out how to profit from our fascination with measuremenin which organizations of all sizes have become preoccupied with training and certification standards, Yardstick Software, an Edmonton firm, has figured out how to profit from our fascination with measurement.

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.

In Canada, Kureluk continues, Yardstick discovered that there was no one else doing this kind of work.

In the U.S., not surprisingly, Yardstick doesn't have such complete command of its market niches.

«In a sense, the yardstick for performance is much higher in the smaller organization,» said Kon Leong, founder and CEO of ZL TechnologieIn a sense, the yardstick for performance is much higher in the smaller organization,» said Kon Leong, founder and CEO of ZL Technologiein the smaller organization,» said Kon Leong, founder and CEO of ZL Technologies.

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

Average annual inflation — one yardstick of economic growth — hasn't hit the Fed's 2 % target in years.

Uber told stockholders that gross bookings, the key yardstick of demand for ride services, rose 11 percent to $ 9.71 billion in the period that ended in September, compared with $ 8.74 billion in the second quarter, said the people.

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

Belief in the sign of Jonah (3 days and 3 nights as per Mat 12:40) may, however, be of vital importance, serving as a yardstick for Jesus to «measure» our faith in Him when He comes to «separate the sheep from the goats».

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).

We have there a valid yardstick to apply to our lives as individual Christians, local congregations and as missionary people of God in the world.

Melbourne, under the influence of Latin American Liberation Theology and the Conference of Roman Catholic Bishops (Medellin in 1968) and Puebla in 1979), rightly stated that God had a preferential option for the poor, and the principle or yardstick to judge the authenticity and credibility of the church's missionary engagement was the relationship of the church to the poor.

It spoke of a «non-imperialistic evangelism, a faithful evangelism that aims at the transformations and permeation of societies from within; looks to the kingdom that is coming as the recapitulation of all things in Jesus Christ».21 Melbourne spoke of the kingdom as the goal of mission, the poor as a new missionary yardstick, and the Church as an agent of mission and a sacrament of the kingdom.

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.

The power, the intimidation, the fearlessness are still there, but so are grace and finesse and economy of movement, terms previously associated with Houston's Akeem Olajuwon, Ewing's yardstick through most of the»80s, and San Antonio rookie David Robinson, the only other NBA center currently mentioned in the same breath with Ewing and Olajuwon.

Mourhino won the CL with both Porto and Inter but am sure even his most adoring fan will never qualify both teams as GREAT or memorable... PG's Cl winning squad will go down in the annals of the game as a yardstick for what and how football should be played.....

Not too long ago I used to use them as the yardstick for our team in terms of balance and strength in depth.

Nonsense, what does longevity mean, World cup is the yardstick, where is Ronaldo dalima, how dare you rate Christiana Ronaldo over Dalima, that's inept, Why should Messi be above Maradonna, The quality of footballers now are even lesser than ever, all we have are two inches above average players in Messi and Ronando, remember Zidane time where we had Figo, ROnaldino, Seedorf, Maldini, Nedved, Crespo, Batistuta, Shevy.....

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.

Overcoming a side ranked 176th in the world is hardly a yardstick with which to measure success or progress, but there were flashes of promise as the first half came to a close.

In terms of an uneventful pre-season — there is perhaps no better yardstick to gauge their prospects for most foreign players on both sides are unknown quantities — Lobera's team will be the more favoured one.

... 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.

With marriage as the yardstick, the relationship between parents with a child in common does not seem worthy of a legal status.

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.

Almost all women in most developed countries give birth in hospitals, leaving the providers of the birth services with no genuine yardstick against which to measure their care.

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.

«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.

Smart said, «In any constitutional democracy, the number of times one represents a constituency is not the issue; the yardstick is performance.

«It doesn't show how the presence or absence of the menopause affects Darwinian fitness,» how successful an individual is in passing on his or her genes to future generations, «which is the all - important evolutionary yardstick.»

The scientists compared recordings from normal periods to those just before and during seizures; their yardstick was an algorithm developed from chaos theory to measure the degree of complexity in brain activity.

«In the last few years we've seen the introduction of targeted therapies, also known as precision medicine,» says allergist Mark Boguniewicz, MD, ACAAI member and lead author on a soon - to - be-published Atopic Dermatitis Yardstick.

Birthweight is also one of the essential yardsticks used to measure a baby's progress in its first days and weeks after birth.

Ronald Reagan's famous question in the U.S. presidential election of 1980 is generally a good yardstick for picking a candidate, or at least for judging a leader's economic policies.

The yardstick of improvement of muscle balance in the case of the Functional Movement Screen is improvement in the ability to perform those movements without failure (or to a higher degree of competence).

Dan Slater: Would you say having moved mail order brides online has moved the yardstick at all in terms of enhancing a number of folks who are interested in it because now it's so easy to access.

Dan Slater: Would you say having moved mail order brides online in the past 5 to 10 years has moved the yardstick at all in terms of enhancing a number of folks who are interested in it because now it's so easy to access?

Consider the breathless, reserved way the elder Affleck shoots the storming of a barricaded old house, the grisly discovery in an upstairs bathroom, and the product of a series of violent acts that ends, a few scenes later, with a conversation between young Patrick and crusty Bressant about regret, forgiveness, and the impossibility of doing the right thing when there's no reliable yardstick for measuring propriety.

For openers, because the Oscars have been around so long they serve as a one - of - a-kind yardstick, an indicator of what the Hollywood community values now and in the past.

A playboy of Heffnerian proportions — far greater, in fact, if the yardstick is net worth — the charming Raymond succumbs to all the customary Y - chromosome temptations: sex, drugs, sex, and more sex.

There's a new yardstick in town, a significant change in the way we measure how insufferably self - indulgent and scripted to within an inch of its three - hour life a TV awards show can be.

Or, to yardstick it another way, these numbers are either comparable to or way ahead of what 2016's buzziest art - house success, The Lobster, has grossed, and they have left many 2016 indies that were intended to skew younger — Swiss Army Man, The Neon Demon, Green Room, Sing Street — in the dust.

It's as if a yardstick can be 36 inches long in most of the world, but 3 inches long in Tennessee.

Quality, reference check, survival in the market, affordable costs, and use of reliable tech tools are some yardsticks needed for choosing the best online tutoring center in the USA.

«If we want to be disruptive and allow for education to have a different experience in the United States, we need to recognize the long - term nature of this work and stop using short - term yardsticks to measure progress.»