Sentences with phrase «used as a barometer»

In addition, interest rates on U.S. Treasury bonds are used as barometers for determining global economic health [9], and as pegs for many other interest rates, including American mortgage and student loan rates [10, 11].

The viewpoint is catching on with advisors and consumers, but retirement research is still largely focused on the notion that individuals need to find a safe withdrawal rate for their retirement and then use that as a barometer to compute a wealth accumulation target in order to fund their desired retirement spending.

It is the most popular type of US Treasury debt and is often used as a barometer for the overall U.S. economy.

Republicans retorted that their candidate, dairy magnate and two - time gubernatorial primary loser Jim Oberweis, was fatally flawed — so the race could not be used as a barometer for other contests.

Rather than letting fear be a reason to stop you, use it as a barometer to know that you're on the right path to living an awesome, whole life.

Or should we use it as a barometer of how well today's curriculum and instruction prepare students, as measured by a preexisting, unchanging standard?

The «Stand on the Line» activity can be used as a barometer to test students» prior knowledge - the focus of this lesson is the the human impact on...

Because the assessments aren't linked to any local or regional set of learning standards, NAEP can be used as a barometer to compare results on state tests, especially when it comes to reading and mathematics.

This might not be the best example to use as a barometer for the market value, however, as Seinfeld's imminent star power might have inflated the final price.

Free credit score providers, for example, often offer an educational score from a specific bureau and these scores aren't ever used by lenders — but they can still be used as a barometer for your overall creditworthiness.

I don't think the monthly mortgage payment should be used as the barometer.

I have a lot of feelings surrounding «girl games» and the contexts in which games aimed towards girls and women are forever pushed aside despite the fact that «boys games» were used as a barometer to decide whether or not something was appropriate for gamers of all genders to play.

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But missing from the details were BlackBerry subscriber numbers, a figure that analysts have come to rely on as a barometer of how many people still use the company's devices.

Instead, I have gone through my career in national media with a misinformed sense of satisfaction that, as a perceptive young journalist, I called Trump on his lies and gave Forbes readers who used the Rich List as a barometer of private wealth a more accurate picture of his finances than the one he was selling.

In this case, I used the season win totals from CG Technology as a barometer for 2015 performance.

Using Ray Rice or Casey Anthony as a barometer to judge RF or his character is a laugh!!!! Ray Rice there was CLEAR video evidence.

«A lot of people use the knee as though it were some barometer for how much you care about these issues,» Long says.

And, of course, those engaging in this debate can always use the California Interscholastic Federation bowl series as a barometer.

They beat Michigan by 2 goals, although I know each game is different and can't be used as a complete barometer.

Using his real life evolution as a barometer, it's easy to see why EA have given the defender such a high potential rating — after all, Barcelona have previously tried to sign the centre - back.

The resulting data is used to compare relative abundance of seabirds over time — to help us understand populations within the sanctuary and their possible impacts on local ecosystems and as a barometer for other changes in the environment.

Never use age as a barometer, instead look at weight or length.

Mercury is a naturally occurring chemical element that is used in several devices such as thermometers, barometers, fluorescent lamps and other devices.

While I still do regular pregnancy tests since I can't use my period as a barometer, this was without a doubt the best decision I made for my mental and physical health.

Many people use stress as a barometer for how much they get done in a day.

Using the internet as a barometer, the reason isn't because divorce or separation is looming, although it may feel that way when the side effects of sleep deprivation start to ruin your life.

And while I would never use another person as the barometer of my own beauty, it did reinforce my belief that dermaplaning is the secret to bright, smooth skin you never knew about.

But don't use my being in ketosis or not as any barometer for you!

And when testing cholesterol, medics use LDL as the barometer but they must go one step further and test the size of the LDL.

As you complete missions and take down bigger and badder beasts, your hunter rank will increase, which is the general barometer used to measure how far someone is in the game or how powerful they are.

At his most lucid (a term applied loosely), Kilmer, with a touch of iconoclasm, imparts a little about Mamet's process, including the hyphenate playwright's use of his children as a barometer for material and preference for «traditional» filmmaking techniques.

I never use the Critics Choice nominations as a huge barometer, but as part of the larger precursor stew, if you will, it brings some things to light.

The plaintiffs and lower courts had consistently used funding as the barometer of quality.

What used to be considered «the engine of social mobility» (see Fareed Zakaria in the new Time magazine), the incubator of productive and successful citizens (and parents), the school is now treated as some kind of barometer of caste and class.

And to use the market as our barometer.

And though I'm usually loathe to use a book's Amazon ranking as a completely accurate barometer of its commercial success, with these books it is the only barometer, as neither work is available in conventional bookstores.

A new barometer sensor is available for developers to use, as is an integrated NFC chip for mobile payments and sharing information with other phones via a bump and tap.

However, it can be used as a decent barometer to tell if you should continue digging into the dividend growth stock further.

Accordingly, at Research Affiliates we focus on gauging which assets and currencies are priced to deliver attractive returns over longer horizons, all while using shorter - term price and economic momentum as a barometer for the conviction in our expectations of future returns.

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Can you use your cat as a barometer or is it all phooey?

If we use our own heartrate as a barometer of a dog's threat, rather than established methods focussing on real risk and acquired bite inhibition, then we're simply doing all dogs a disservice.

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Your story with barometers can not be used as confirmation of a secular trend.

I use the closet storage space as my barometer for when it's time to pass things on to a friend or our local Swap & Play — if the closet is reaching the point where I dread opening it to swap out toys and books, it's time to find a new home for the toys my guy isn't playing with as frequently or has outgrown.

If the number of taxis waiting outside Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's Fleet Street offices at 11 pm can be used as a crude barometer of merger activity in the City, then the financial performance of firms with national practices can be taken as a measure of activity levels in the wider UK economy.

77 % of these organizations also use social networks as a barometer to monitor what patrons and the public are saying about their organizations

As with your age, your health is one of many barometers that insurers use to gauge your life expectancy.

Use the example as a barometer to gauge how well you fare with other applicants.

Further, wives are often referred to as the barometer of the marital relationship (Floyd & Markman, 1983; Hughes, Gordon, & Gaertner, 2004) and thus may be more affected by discordance or concordance in alcohol use.