Sentences with phrase «with measured points»

His preferred technique was a paper map with measured points plotted.

Not exact matches

Washington voters passed legalization measure Initiative 502 with a margin of nearly 10 points.

Simple measures such as building on e-commerce supported platforms and protecting your hardware and software with regular updates and sufficient anti-virus and firewall protection are basic principles that can be easily implemented to close the loopholes that hackers use as points of entry.

«As you can see, a yawning 50 - point gap opened at year - end between the two measures of confidence, with dumb money optimism having soared, while smart money optimism became decidedly more subdued.

With the Dow Jones Industrial Average experiencing two 1,000 - point drops in recent weeks, and having fielded many, many investors» calls, I was reminded that investors truly do not know how to measure risk.

At one point Trump said he backed comprehensive gun - control measures, but he backed off after meeting with the NRA's top lobbyist.

With the economy either at or beyond full employment and the consumer price index — a measure of the inflation in consumer prices — at 2.1 percent, the real 10 - year interest rate is 0.4 percent, Jones explained, roughly 300 basis points below the historical average.

The region - wide Stoxx Europe 600 index, the broadest measure of share prices, was marked 0.4 % higher at 390.72 points by 09:00 BST, with both financial and industrial stocks leading the advance.

With Greece at boiling point following the adoption of yet more internationally mandated austerity measures in the wake of parliament's vote to slash 25,000 jobs in the public sector, opposition leaders said it was wrong for Schäuble to be visiting at all.

Strategists at Bank of America Merrill Lynch put a fine point on the paradox of how central banks created both a liquidity solution and problem with their historically aggressive measures while they and congressional legislators created a tighter regulatory environment.

Adjusting to the new systems also poses a challenge for all involved, as well as a fear of the unknown, especially with publishers keen to keeping proprietary measures as a selling point for advertisers.

At this point, obscene equity valuations are already baked in the cake on valuation measures that are reliably correlated with actual subsequent stock market returns.

I think you make many of the same points: start with a baseline, define what the business objective and measure results.

When site owners began creating artificial methods of increasing the number of links pointing to their sites to improve their rankings, the search engines retaliated with link quality measures.

Affordability in the province improved modestly with RBC measures easing between 0.2 and 0.9 percentage points.

With the CFLP index for large enterprises rising 3.4 points to 54.4 in March, and the equivalent measure of small enterprises falling by 4.3 points to 50.9, the stronger CFLP measure relative to the Markit PMI may simply reflect this bias towards better - performing larger firms.

According to Bloomberg data, U.S. equities, as measured by the S&P 500 Index, barely budged; long - term U.S. Treasury rates are currently trading within 10 basis points (bps) of where they were on January 1; and, with the exception of the last two weeks of the year, the Federal Reserve (Fed) sat on its hands.

I agree with the Accumulator's points about Global Index linkers but would point out that a Global Equity fund would also give a measure of protection against home - grown inflation via currency depreciation as well as capital / income growth.

The point of the chart above is to illustrate that those with an agenda to ride the trend and look smart are correct when they state that the US stock market is not particularly over valued... if one shuts off one's brain and accepts policy (blue Monetary Base line, which is but one of several money supply measures) as being at all normal or healthy.

For now, the main point is that the whiplash that investors are feeling with respect to the economy largely reflects the lack of distinction being made between leading and lagging measures of economic activity.

By measuring conversion points throughout the funnel, you can start to identify where you might have high drop - off, and tighten that area with lead nurturing and content.

Either earnings have to grow much faster than sales, or sales growth has to come from things that aren't advertising, or the ad industry has to grow much faster than it did in the past, or you have to pick an end point for the year you are measuring to that is very near today - or, you'd end up with Google having a huge share of global advertising spending.

Attitudes towards risk can vary with emotions and stock - market cycles so why measure risk at one point in time?

Once valuations are rich and our broad return / risk estimates are negative, our willingness to accept market risk generally requires a window with two exits — one below, at the point where the trend - following measures deteriorate, and one above, at the point where overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions emerge.

One of our few prior data points on this question comes from the (accidental) 2016 revelation that Zuckerberg covers his laptop's webcam with tape — a privacy measure that's not as paranoid as it might sound.

This is reflected in our BlackRock Growth GPS, which points to above - trend global growth in 2018 but shows consensus having caught up with or even overtaken our own measure.

The authors of studies with titles claiming to point to «the heart of the matter» recommend vague but important - sounding measures like «strategic planning groups and reform.»

That threat notwithstanding, the evidence points to Barbour's having received his appointments, in large measure, due to his affinity with white concerns.

@Danica, I'm not sure if the metric is valid, but it irks me that you'd feel you had to resort to some kind of straw poll measure to have to prove your point with any authority — the feeling is a symptom that underscores the truth of your point.

And I suppose at this point I must point out what should be common knowledge: If secular thinkers believe they can take the measure of traditional moral and religious concepts with the callow judgment that they are comparable to geocentrism, they are simply mistaken.

i agre with Dave and then some - christians (and other folks who are serious in their beliefs too) are comical, believing and praying to someone who can't be seen, can't be proven... (this is from the point of view of an empiricist, who is able to measure things) Christians (well, me for sure) are hypocrits - believing in fantastic ideals and guaranteed to continualy fall short - that is a fairly comical notion, but nonetheless, one I enjoy to continue to strive for - setting high ideals and striving towards them.

At this point, any measure of attention given to these clowns is too much, but famed hacking collective Anonymous — who has picked fights with Westboro in the past — apparently decided enough was enough, and used their considerable Internet savvy to leaked the personal information of the members of Westboro's congregation online for anyone to see, write, call or even pay a visit to.

We supplemented the qualitative statements with quantitative measures — with ten - point scales of the sort «How satisfied (10) or dissatisfied (1) are you with the direction the Society of Jesus has taken in the past few years?»

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»

The house smelled heavenly at this point and I was tempted to skip making the bread and just pour that over ice - cream... but since I had already measure everything else out I stuck with it: — RRB - Needless to say best banana bread ever: — RRB - Thanks for recipe and ideas!

«We measure density and temperature with accuracy and control that allow very small safety margins between controlling set point and requested production.

CGF is urging all consumer goods companies to phase out harmful hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) focusing on four key points; the installation of new refrigeration equipment in markets where viable, engagement with stakeholders to overcome barriers in markets where installation is not currently viable, reduction of the environmental impact of existing refrigeration systems and the development of individual targets and action plans to measure the first three points.

Plant two feet and upwards in height, stocky and branching, the stem and branches often stained or clouded with purple; leaves large, on long stems, smaller, smoother, and less sharply pointed, than those of the Squash - pepper; flowers white, sometimes measuring - nearly an inch and a half in diameter.

In all studies, analyses with glucose AUCi, insulin AUCi, measured meal GI and GL, and II values, with the exclusion of a possible outlier (which was defined as any data point beyond 2 SDs from the mean value), did not alter results, and therefore, the data for all subjects who completed all interventions are reported.

In a 1 cup microwavable measure with a spout (or in a small saucepan over medium heat, stirring often), scald the cream (heat it to the boiling point; small bubbles will form around the periphery).

Ideally, coconut oil is the safest and most stable of all oils with the highest smoke point of 230c and can be used in place of the olive oil for safe measure if one chooses.

At this point the sifted cake flour (sift the flour then measure it), mixed with cocoa powder (regular unsweetened or Dutch - processed), sugar, and salt (to prevent the flour from clumping), is folded into the beaten egg whites.

If we start this season with those two in our starting 11 it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... neither one of these players should still be with our club at this point because they represent the settling half - measures that have plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams don't have enough talented young players, unlike a Monaco or Dortmund, because they have lost the plot from an organizational standpoint... they are so reliant on one individual to run the whole operation that their once relevant scouting department has become so antiquated that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once had... furthermore, when you leave all decision - making to a manager who despises any dissenting opinions, your management team becomes little more than a stagnant group of «yes men» and no new ideas emerge... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases year after year to stifle dissent from the ticket - buying public, then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again

As the cape was gradually drawn and the bull pointed his horn toward Tomás's heart before his rush, I watched a man play Russian roulette in his own cemetery with a bull, the hero of this tragedy Spain adores and despises in nearly equal measure.

And just for good measure the Frenchman pointed out, as reported by Metro, that Arsenal are in a better position having a player like Alexis desperate to play than some other clubs having the opposite sort of problem with the likes of Diego Costa and Dimitri Payet.

For years people were crying out for midfielders with «steel» like Vieira and old school types and then our new signing cops a few reds in games we scraped through and haven't dropped points and you're calling for drastic measures?

They see a point guard with absurdly long arms (his wingspan has been measured at 6» 9) and huge hands who's still growing into his body.

It was usually just a guy with a pocket watch measuring it to the nearest whole second, which meant the single point on offer for fastest lap was often shared.

and wenger is being a t ## t now you can not start the transfer window with sanchez and end it with a f» ing wellbeck i will be dissapointed if we get that desperate only big name striker now would be cavani but no point even saying it, we all know he thinks he has brought enough typical frustations for us gooners why can we challenge the big teams for the big players suarez to barca, I would of been happyt with balo liverpool, costa chelsea, if they do falcao united wich is a complete joke if he is happy going to united he would have been happier coming here with ucl and all, lewandowski bayern, its all a joke we better get a reus or something of equal measure you cant buy sanchez and place him as a striker when you need him as a winger if defeats the purpose we either get another winger or a striker.

The first and most simple reason for benchmark sets is to give you a starting point of where you are with fitness, strength and speed in each, and give you a measure on which you will see improvement.