Sentences with phrase «other measuring stick»

You suggesting atheists do not sort out conflicting emotions on right wrong / good evil or use some other measuring stick.

Not exact matches

Customer loyalty measures something more than satisfaction — it measures whether someone is willing to put their name on the line and recommend your product or service to others or if they are willing to stick with your product / service in spite of an occasional poor experience.

Anne Stevenson - Yang, co-founder of J Capital Research, called the employee appeals a «desperation measure when companies really have no other source of financing and they are stuck.»

In a quest to get economic activity churning again, the Fed and other growth - hungry central banks are running headlong into a bleak irony — the longer they stick with extraordinary measures, the less extraordinary those measures become.

Instead, they become a constant competition to avoid falling short against a hundred measuring sticks as teens compete with each other for breathing space and attention.

I have never really had trouble with my cake sticking to the pan, but I have talked to others who have, and either way, the parchment is a good back - up measure.

Using something other than a clock to help you pass and measure time can help you stick with the rocking until baby settles down and can help you fill your mind with happy thoughts so you can weather those kicks and scratches.

Still, even as a number of other measures melted away from the budget talks, Cuomo stuck with including education reforms, as well as ethics legislation, in the final budget agreement.

The job market is highly competitive, leaving many aspiring astronomers changing fields while in graduate school, sticking it out in postdocs that seem to be measured in light years, or working in education or some other nonresearch field.

He took the filter papers back to his laboratory and measured the cyanobacteria cells, BMAA and other toxins stuck to them.

Furthermore, the instrument can be employed to measure the force between the tip and a surface, and in some cases even the force between a molecule stuck to the tip and other molecules in a biological tissue.

There are also other means of measuring ketones, of course, which you can find many good reviews for online, including urine sticks and a recent innovation, a breath analyzer.

Other than the mirror, going up in weight is the best measuring stick you've got!

Apart from quality and effectiveness, our main two measuring sticks, we have taken other criteria into account, too.

This along with Bioshock Infinite and The Last of Us should be the measuring stick to which all other games compare not only their quality but their stories as well!

What students are expected to know in order to reach proficiency levels on exams in some states may be as much as four grade levels below the standards set in other states, according to a study by the American Institutes for Research that uses international testing data to gauge states against a common measuring stick.

The book would have benefited if she had gone further in acknowledging the limitations of her measure of grit, as she has done in other publications, but in general her claims and anecdotes stick pretty closely to the evidence, which is fully documented with citations.

Andy readily admits that he's still stuck on denial, and from there he raises a big question that we've heard in other critiques of the report: Can we really trust the measures of teacher performance we used to reach our conclusions about professional development?

It is indeed a good thing that we have those other measures because it's true that the Common Core era has failed to deliver on what many of us saw as one of its most valuable and important features: a platinum meter stick to be used to measure, monitor, and compare student achievement, not just between states but also among districts, individual schools, even individual classrooms and children.

Another sticking point is the requirement from the Obama administration that students» test scores or other measures of academic growth be a «significant factor» in teacher evaluations by 2014.

Though some states are sticking with the simpler proficiency measures, and some are using a hybrid system, others, like Colorado, have taken a lead in weighing growth scores highly.

In many ways, this thing is a compact segment measuring stick, setting the pace all the other entries must match.

While some of its rivals have adopted downsized turbocharged engines, GM has resolutely stuck with naturally aspirated powerplants, improving fuel economy through other measures.

For the last seven years the Renault Clio RS has been the yard stick by which all other compact hot hatches have been measured.

Kia is feeling the pressure from ever - mounting fuel efficiency regulations as much as any other automaker, and like many of its peers it has decided that the path to appeasing those wielding the measuring stick at the EPA is to produce hybrid versions of its popular models.

If you use sales as a self - worth measuring stick, you are turning over to others something you can't control.

, and for the red / blue one combo are even hell smaller, there was a skin for the midget controllers that you can try and have a perfect measure of the size and buttons of those things, and let me tell you those things are cramped and small as hell, the analog stick and buttons are so damn together so good luck feeling comfortable on those things lol, other thing that grab my attention was the ridiculous price, so expensive and small, theres no way in hell the price is being justified here, but oh well have fun people with the Switch hehe.

Maybe it was because for a decade, it had been hailed as one of the best games ever made and considered the yard stick all other RPG's to be measured against.

The purpose of this reveal is to give developers a measuring stick to evaluate other funding offers they may receive.

Around the same time we will also be making our funding terms public in the hope that will provide developers some sort of measuring stick to hold up to other funding offers they get.

He appears to approach each game with a measuring stick that calculates the degree to which Game X advances the medium, pitted against other similar games.

The other day, deep in a healthy New England thicket of oaks, maples and hemlocks, two young men scrambled around on their hands and knees measuring twigs and sticks that had fallen from the trees.

Hence, it might be all wrong to measure other societal groups with the same stick.

For instance at a time when anglers where sticking rigidly to the mantra of 3 to 5 milliliters of flavour, plus 1 to 2 milliliters of intense sweetener to a pound of base mix or more, as measured by 4 large eggs or 6 medium eggs as a basis of measurement, I tried other approaches and reaped big rewards against much more experienced anglers.