Sentences with phrase «yard stick for»

You will discover, however, that there are so many wine estates jostling for your attention that you need something other than wine estates as your yard stick for selecting which ones to visit.

Even after 50 years, they still remain the yard stick for the sports car world — and as long as other aspire to compete at this level, the world is better for it.

Emmanuel Babayaro has taken a swipe at Nigerian coaches using Gernot Rohr's bold stance in team selection as a yard stick for his criticism.

His ratings are always higher than 6.5 (though KJ ratings don't mean sh*t, i agree, yet that is a yard stick for measurement).

Those last two trophies are the yard stick for Arsenal in my book, and we haven't made recognizable progress.

Relevance is important and so is overall reach, so one of the metrics I use as my yard stick for top digital marketing experts is Retweets, as measured by awesome influencer and content discovery tool BuzzSumo.

Not exact matches

He did have the one scramble for 15 yards that helped set up a third - quarter touchdown, but there were at least two other times when he could have and should have at least tried to move the sticks with his legs.

Honestly, I think he and everyone is putting a lot of pressure on him and the only yard stick they have is playing for the national team.

In the NFL sometimes you have to be willing to just stick your nose in there and take the 1 yard or even a loss of 1 because that's the best play, not unlike a QB where the best option is to throw it away and live for another down.

Malic played a huge part in the ultimate victory, sticking and moving his way through the Wildcat defense for 201 yards and two touchdowns in 23 carries.

Saturday, Florida coach Jim McElwain stuck with Franks, who completed 18 of 28 passes for 212 yards and one touchdown.

An expected onslaught from the host failed to materialise within the first period, and it was indeed «The Yorkshire Club» who continued to have the better chances; Ince's creative surge into the box resulted in Philip Billing receiving a clearance in familiar shooting territory around 25 yards out, and the Dane gratefully took his chance at a thunderbolt which was powerfully saved by Hennessey between the sticks for the Eagles.

The Veteran of a squad limited on talented players, David Dunn is the shining light for Sam Allardyce, with Dunn still boasting a lethal shot, a cunning eye for goal and still has the composure to stick it away from 12 yards when gifted the opportunity to dispatch a penalty.

So instead of looking at that time as a yard stick to aim for, I think we need to be looking at the smaller more immediate battles that can be won.

Much has been written about the dreadful state of temporary accommodation that some homeless households are placed in: broken doors, no hot water, mould, no washing machines, families stuck living together for months and years in a single room, stained and dirty mattresses, dog faeces littered around entrances and rubbish piled in hallways and yards.

If you're looking for something to use in your flowerbeds or small landscaping projects in your yard while still sticking to your budget, here's a great pick that won't break the bank.

No need to run to the market, go outside and look around your property or yard for something that you can cut and stick in a vase.

Now attach the tops to something robust but relatively light that you can use for compression testing (e.g., a yard stick).

For the last seven years the Renault Clio RS has been the yard stick by which all other compact hot hatches have been measured.

Take him for walks, or give him a light job to do around the yard (like fetching sticks for you or finding slugs in the garden).

I want to be inside of the home with my family, not stuck on the end of a chain or alone in a kennel or fenced yard for hours on end.

She is laid back and easy going for the most part, though she loves a romp around the yard and fetching a stick.

For a person who wants a lap dog to fetch sticks, and doesn't have a fenced yard, a pit bull is about the last breed they should consider.

Maybe it was because for a decade, it had been hailed as one of the best games ever made and considered the yard stick all other RPG's to be measured against.

A wind farm (Cape Wind) proposed for just off the coast of Cape Cod has been stuck in litigation for YEARS, largely because of a privileged few — including some very powerful people like Ted Kennedy — who do not want it in their «back yard.»

I also don't think that is the only yard stick to judge the scheme by, but I better stop here before I'm told off again for being off topic.

If your vision of your new yard isn't properly interpreted by your landscaper, you could end up stuck paying for a disappointing project.

To successfully sell a home, you can't just stick a For Sale sign in the front yard; you need to put in a little pre-work first!

If you can hire a short sale agent who has experience with your bank, you are 10 steps further ahead than the guy down the street with a for sale sign stuck in his yard for a year.

Selling your home requires more than just sticking a sign in your front yard and waiting for someone to call or knock on your door.

Hence, the quick decision to not worry about the rooms we hadn't started working on yet, and the mad dash to finish up some unfinished projects in lightning speed so that we could stick a «for sale by owner» sign in our yard last August.

A while back, Heather Bullard and Ki Nassauer invited us to team up with them on a yard stick - themed / how - to article for the 2011 Spring / Summer issue of Flea Market Style magazine.

I love seasonal touches throughout the house but I don't like it feeling too overwhelming so I like to stick with subtle touches like cozy throws and pillows for fall (and winter) and a few pumpkins and some more branches from our yard.

I don't have sticks in my yard but next door neighbor has alot of cut wood so will ask him if I can scrounge in his pile for sticks.