Sentences with phrase «perhaps as an indicator»

(Although, perhaps as an indicator of this particular work's weight, Allen alludes to Shakespeare's famous line from «Macbeth» about a «tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing» early on.)

The ACLU and Public Advocates recommends that they not be used to rank applicants but perhaps as an indicator of the seriousness of a student's interest in a school.

This was seen as an event blamed on freak weather conditions, or perhaps as an indicator of things to come.

Not exact matches

As an aside, perhaps just one important indicator, the maker of this rule, though wikipedia predicts an eventual Nobel, is a nutcase, full of rational expectations, promoting a flat income tax, and arguing against fiscal stimulus (see WSJ article below).

Perhaps Quest's slow, quiet expansion into the former Mars Hill territory is symbolic; an indicator that Cho's understanding of the nature of evangelical Christianity has far greater longevity than Driscoll's «sock it to»em», masculine approach, which sadly collapsed as quickly as it grew.

This seems surprising when one looks at the statistics — after all, the developing middle class, an indicator of a more urban and modernizing society, is still a minority (perhaps 300 million of China's 1.3 billion population), albeit a fast - growing one, and China remains a very poor country in terms of per capita GDP, as well as substantially rural.

Given the malaise in a number of key markets — as indicated by continuous weakness in a series of indicators, especially the eurozone purchasing managers» indices (PMIs)-- it is perhaps unsurprising that our survey showed falling demand from overseas.

P16: P16 is perhaps best known as an indicator of cellular senescence, a part of the mechanisms that cause damaged cells or those at the Hayflick limit to become senescent or self - destruct.

Perhaps the best indicator is the co-occurrence of other factors such as bloody show, losing the mucus plug, or the rupture of membranes.

But perhaps this problem has never been stated as starkly as in a recent paper examining the distribution of teacher quality in Washington state: «We demonstrate that in elementary, middle school, and high school classrooms (both math and reading), every measure of teacher quality — experience, licensure exam score, and value - added estimates of effectiveness — is inequitably distributed across every indicator of student disadvantage — free / reduced lunch status, underrepresented minority, and low prior academic performance.»

Perhaps interestingly, with a bit of imagination the specs may also serve as an indicator of some of the technology we will see in tablets, and apps / programs ahed of us.

As for the metrics that you've described in measuring the «professional» standard, they are flawed in the following respects: Professional via publication — publishers are profit - driven, not a good indicator of excellence; Professional through number in print — numbers can be altered with marketing and time (by this logic, the Bible, Kuran, and the Communist Manifesto are perhaps the most professional work ever written); Money — there are plenty of professional idiots out there with more money than deserved; Peer review — depends on the peer.

An important takeaway (and perhaps disturbingly) is that many «institutional» investors monitor the participation of retail investors in the market as a contrarian indicator — meaning when the public is piling in, the pros are on their way out.

There are some conflicting signals between some of the individual - focused indicators and the professional - focused indicators, which perhaps is understandable as we're transitioning out of the institutional - dominated «awareness» phase of the chart and into the public - dominated «mania» phase of the chart.

In the Czech Republic, natural sales outpace actual shelf space devoted to the category, suggesting the potential for further sales growth — perhaps an indicator of opportunities in other regions, as well.

They also demonstrated the new encouragement for completing the Pokedex, as indicators will show the player if something they have caught has an evolution or perhaps a Pokemon that can be paired with it.

We favor a basket of vital signs that would likely include impact - oriented goals (perhaps GMT, although high latitude temperatures are probably better indicators) as well as goals that are more closely connected to what governments, firms, and humans actually do.

Perhaps there is room for more indicators inspired by the «big picture physics», such as the planetary energy balance and the outgoing long - wave radiation (OLR).

Even if a species is only distantly related to our proximate human needs, and perhaps not as essential as some other species, I thought we had learned that the fluctuations of species» populations are often important indicators of changes in ecological parameters that we are important to us.

The historical record is a worthwhile resource and is perhaps not given as much regards as it should be, as it can give many indicators of the past, as well as the possible future.

Perhaps el gordo you are much closer to the reality than most would think when you use «extreme weather» as an indicator of a cooling globe when trying to get some semblence of sanity about the climate into the global warming sifile ehamba

Perhaps more importantly, we can now point to the 20th century as a time period in which most of the biosphere (55 %) came to be transformed by human populations and their use of land — heralding the end of the wild biosphere and the emergence of a human - managed anthropogenic biosphere; yet another indicator that we have entered the anthropocene.

Perhaps the most essential point: Never go by looks alone as an indicator of whether a foreclosure is a good buy.