Sentences with phrase «right yardstick»

Slekar says Common Core standards, the educational benchmarks now being implemented in school districts across the state, are not the right yardstick and points out that the nation's best and most exclusive schools do not use them.

But the first step is accepting that student growth is the right yardstick, not status measures.

MacDonald said the findings underscore the importance of choosing the right yardstick when analyzing the global trade network.

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Without consent, there's no practical yardstick for what is right or wrong, so all we have left is a set of tangled - up beliefs about women being sex objects who are wholly responsible for what happens to them.

For us Muslims the Qur» an is the Furqan i.e. criteria to judge right from wrong and the ultimate yardstick which is more superior to scientific knowledge.

The Western countries are increasingly using their view of human rights concept as a yardstick to judge developing countries and to deal with economic and trade relations to extend development assistance.

... 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.

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.

In addition to being an excellent yardstick for measuring talent, shorts can jumpstart film careers if the stars align just right.

And civil rights groups are worried dropping the «adequate yearly progress» (AYP) yardstick represents the government giving up on a signature policy piece designed to close the gap between the worst - performing and best - performing students.

Yet what is more, since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the ne bis in idem principle has become a yardstick of the systemic impact of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (CFREU) on secondary EU law.

The wider yardstick identified here is whether the person «has the right to direct or influence the running of the activities of the trust or firm».

To try correctly judicial review of arbitration cases according to law and guarantee a unified yardstick for judicial decision - making, protect the legal rights of parties, promote the healthy and orderly development of arbitration matters and the establishment of a diverse dispute resolution mechanism, we notify the various levels of the people's court handling judicial review of arbitration cases of the following:

But while 10 - 14x revenues is a common M&A yardstick right now, Hulu's reliance on its equity owners» content for the bulk of its value make it highly unlikely that it will come anywhere close.