Sentences with phrase «though by most standards»

February 5, 2013 • Afghanistan's Kyrgyz nomads call home «the roof of the world,» though by most standards, it's hardly homey.

Not exact matches

As I've written before, I have found it interesting that your Sophia is a thin, young, sexy [by modern fashionable standards] female — not a woman that most women I know could identify with, though most men may.

But, strangely, even though culture is becoming less «religious» by most measurable standards, the number of people who believe in an afterlife is at record numbers.

Whilst Cristiano Ronaldo may be enduring something of a loss of form, though only by his own ridiculously high standards, the Real Madrid man has now become the most liked person on Facebook according to the Daily Mail.

Though the 2014 team struggled by St. Ignatius standards (15 - 5), this year Packard created the most ambitious trip yet — to Landon and Washington, D.C.'s Gonzaga Prep, the nation's preseason No. 1.

Though it seems cozy by most standards, the interior is more spacious than Russia's Soyuz spacecraft, which is currently used to transport International Space Station (ISS) crews.

However, even though most IOC chemical standards like percent free acidity were adopted by the USDA, some differences remain between IOC and USDA chemical criteria.

Compelled by Warner Bros. to film Dial M for Murder in 3 - D, Hitchcock perversely refused to throw in the standard in - your - face gimmickry of most stereoscopic films of the era — though watch how he visually emphasizes an important piece of evidence towards the end of the film.

It would certainly have been tough to find room for the wondrous Oscar Isaac in a leading actor field more crowded than most, and though the Coens are perpetual competitors for best director (by Oscar's standards or anyone else's), who would we bump this year?

Most unforgivable of all though is the cheap CGI special effects which were crap even by the standards of the late 1990s.

In his cheerleading for the controversial Common Core State Standards — which were approved by 45 states and the District of Columbia and are now being implemented across the country (though some states are reconsidering)-- Duncan has repeatedly noted that the standards and the standardized testing that goes along with them are more difficult than students in most states have confronted.

By far the most annoying feature for me, though, was the backup camera, which comes standard.

There is, though, a brief hint of the handling qualities that are more obviously present in Ford's smaller hatchbacks, with the surprisingly well - contained - by - SUV - standards body lean when cornering perhaps being the most obvious example of this.

Overall, pictures and video have met the low standards set by most other tablets, though the iPad and Asus Transformer Pad Infinity appear to outperform the A700 in most circumstances, sometimes by a little, sometimes by a lot.

Described a one of the most highly praised Fatal Fury titles, this edition was highly successful in arcades (circa the early 1990's; modern by my personal standards, but wesome enough to overlook that fact) and comes as an update to Fatal Fury 2 (though the developers insist it shouldn't be seen as a sequel).

She wrote for trad pubs for years and I got the sense from her that not being in the block buster category (though doing quite well by most standards!)

For most books, though, you can get a good idea from S.R.E.'s Rank Tracking chart, as provided by NovelRank and seen in Standard view.

There are no established, industry - wide standards for underwriting, though most lenders follow standards set by government - related agencies, private mortgage insurers, private mortgage investors or institutional investors.

Though considered mild by most standards, the end of the winter in Buenos Aires is greeted with a jubilance that could only be seen in Argentina By Madi Lang Imagine a 50 year - old taxi driver in a beat - up but recently washed taxby most standards, the end of the winter in Buenos Aires is greeted with a jubilance that could only be seen in Argentina By Madi Lang Imagine a 50 year - old taxi driver in a beat - up but recently washed taxBy Madi Lang Imagine a 50 year - old taxi driver in a beat - up but recently washed taxi.

Most of those people will be fairly poor (by Western standards, though hopefully less so than their forbearers), which means their per - capita consumption of resources will be fairly low.

Yesterday, i talked to a not - so - motivated seller (knowing I most likely won't have my offer accepted, even though it's reasonable by RE standards) and the main details of the conversation went like this: