Sentences with phrase «other yardsticks»

Many developing countries have proposed other yardsticks, such as peaking at some distant date, or controlling emissions as a percentage of GDP.

The point is the canon (from cubit) is the yardstick by which all other yardsticks are measured first,... off a degree in port, miles off course out to sea, i.e. (upon this rock ain't the pope) been there done that,..

Not exact matches

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.

While the company has won some contracts for its testing products, Yardstick goes head to head against several other large and established players.

«That said, the amount of traffic going to other services should not be the main yardstick of success for Google because the goal of a search engine is to deliver relevant results to users as quickly as possible.

I've seen it range from $ 25K / year to $ 25K / week, with no reference to levels of taxation or other external yardstick.

I'm not saying we always have to accept everything bad out of others, but to hold Gingrich up like this and examine his life against the yardstick of God's Word is monumentally unfair.

But we must not equate our personal financial decisions with godliness and use them as the yardstick by which to judge — because while we may be able to see what others are spending, we almost always can't tell why.

The yardstick by which one measures one's own (real or supposed) excellence also measures the other man's defects, to one's own great comfort.

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.

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

You just need to adjust your «yardstick» — in other words, don't measure your baby's success compared to other BW babies (including your first).

... 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.

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.

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.

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.

These and other issues will be critical yardsticks by which the Liberal Democrats can show the public how a coalition government is far better than an unfettered Conservative administration would have been.

All other foods are measured against this yardstick.

A better yardstick of Aldo's ability is how well he's dealt with Frankie Edgar on two separate occasions, Edgar is a fighter who's barely dropped any rounds against every other featherweight he's fought yet Aldo handled him without much trouble both times.

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

How well is the U.S. education system performing, in comparison with other education systems, against those emerging yardsticks?

THAT EVENING I arrived back at the hotel convinced I'd saved the best for last, and the next morning, when we're out again, I keep returning to the Twingo as the yardstick with which to judge the others.

We call it the yardstick against which all other subcompacts are measured, including the Toyota Yaris, Hyundai Accent, Ford Fiesta, Nissan Versa and Chevy Sonic.

Ever since the covers were pulled off the original BMW M5 at the 1984 Amsterdam motor show, it has been the yardstick against which all other super-saloons are judged — and that's a trend that BMW would obviously like to continue with this sixth - generation model.

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.

Literature is good if it's good and the only reliable yardstick for good is time; commercial fiction, on the other hand, is good if it sells.

Commodities can be measured in this fashion to other commodities, but they lack the uniformity, consistency and familiarity and fungibility of gold which make it a useful yardstick.

Other stock value yardsticks showed similar results.

Other tricks include making a loud sound, tapping the side of the cage, poking gently with the yardstick or spraying a very small amount of water at them.

Later, she became the neighborhood girl who set up agility courses made of paint cans, yardsticks, and other «finds» from the garage for her Shetland Sheepdog to run through.

Of course there are many other valuable review sites, so this is purely a rough yardstick.

That gives you the number of cents per point — which you can then use as a yardstick to measure the value of that reward against others.

Games developed in - house and exclusive to the Switch will have no comparative yardstick on which to measure other consoles.

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.

Each level of people's court should establish a centralized administrative platform for the judicial review of arbitration awards, to strengthen the informatized management and data analysis of cases regarding applications to confirm the validity of an arbitation agreement, cases regarding applications to cancel or enforce arbitration awards of our domestic arbitration institutions, applications to recognize and enforce Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macau Special Administrative Region, Taiwan Region arbitration awards, cases regarding applications to recognize and enforce foreign arbitral awards, and cases relating to the judicial review of arbitration such as refusal to accept, reject the filing, or objection to jurisdiction and others relating to the confirmation of the validity of an arbitration agreement; the effective guarantee of the correct application of law and of a unified yardstick for judicial decision - making.

However, with the advent of LEDs and other types of lighting, that yardstick has become meaningless, and as a result, a bulb's brightness is now listed as lumens, which is a more accurate measurement of how bright it is, rather than how much energy it consumes.

Ethnocentric is a sophisticated word for applying a western yardstick for all other cultures: What is considered an ideal of morality in the West is not necessarily an ideal to e.g. African Bushmen.

Bank buildings became the yardstick by which other buildings in a town or neighbourhood were measured.

Associates and staff understand that production is one yardstick to measure by, but the most important one is a willingness to treat others fairly.