Sentences with phrase «serving as a yardstick»

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».

... 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.

While NAEP, the Nation's Report Card, scores are the gold standard for measuring student achievement and serve as a yardstick for state comparisons, NAEP results are generally not known by students and their families, who rely on their state test results to know how they are performing.

Moreover, it serves as a yardstick to measure probability of a repeat offense.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, the state - owned energy firms serve as Beijing's yardstick for reaching policy directions.

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.

It has served as a national yardstick of student achievement since 1969.

While manufacturers» official figures are often hard to match in the real world, they serve as a useful yardstick when comparing cars.

... the application of the Ramsden v. Dyson, L.R. 1 H.L. 129 principle — whether you call it proprietary estoppel, estoppel by acquiescence or estoppel by encouragement is really immaterial — requires a very much broader approach which is directed rather at ascertaining whether, in particular individual circumstances, it would be unconscionable for a party to be permitted to deny that which, knowingly, or unknowingly, he has allowed or encouraged another to assume to his detriment than to inquiring whether the circumstances can be fitted within the confines of some preconceived formula serving as a universal yardstick for every form of unconscionable behaviour.

While the data is likely not entirely accurate, it should serve as reasonably reliable yardstick for Apple's sales performance.