Sentences with phrase «yardstick at»

You came up with more ideas than you can throw a yardstick at..

In case you're wondering, that 60 mph time is identical to the coupe and the Spider is only one - tenth slower over the 0 - 124 mph (200 kph) European yardstick at 9.6 seconds.

Dan Slater: Would you say having moved mail order brides online in the past 5 to 10 years has moved the yardstick at all in terms of enhancing a number of folks who are interested in it because now it's so easy to access?

Dan Slater: Would you say having moved mail order brides online has moved the yardstick at all in terms of enhancing a number of folks who are interested in it because now it's so easy to access.

Not exact matches

The Hills relationship hints at the breadth of the market that Yardstick has discovered.

The health of the economy at the end of four years is a second yardstick by which Buffett said he'd evaluate the Republican Trump administration.

It's a look at how outsiders - a lawyer, two Wall Street traders, and a security guard at a pork and beans shop - used a passion for baseball and some computing power to show that the traditional yardsticks to value players were flawed.

It didn't matter at all that Barnabus» (Gingrich) resume doesn't fit the Christian yardstick.

What even the Pope doesn't know (if this is a yardstick), Jesus was born on 26 September, 4 BCE, at 3 pm -LRB-!)

According to that yardstick, vitality, at least intuitively, seems to increase with fundamentalism and decrease with the broadened perspective (some would say relativism) that comes with the oldline's historical consciousness and responsiveness to societal needs.

It spoke of a «non-imperialistic evangelism, a faithful evangelism that aims at the transformations and permeation of societies from within; looks to the kingdom that is coming as the recapitulation of all things in Jesus Christ».21 Melbourne spoke of the kingdom as the goal of mission, the poor as a new missionary yardstick, and the Church as an agent of mission and a sacrament of the kingdom.

The yardstick that is always tossed around for the Hall of Fame is this: Was he the dominant player of his era at his position?

At the very least, though, they provide a yardstick by which we can measure the outcome of the Eastleigh vote.

«I think you're getting a little fixated by vote shares at general elections and using these as the definitive yardstick of the health or otherwise of a particular political party.»

The group also congratulated the candidates who emerged victorious at the polls as Chairmen and Councilors as well as those who lost, saying: «Without the losers in the contest, there would be no real yardstick to measure or assess our democratic progress».

The ability to raise huge amounts of money has become an even more important attribute for those seeking the presidency, a yardstick to stratify the field of candidates long before the voters have taken a serious look at the field.

Radio astronomers have taken a look at one of the Milky Way's hottest star - forming regions using a new and better yardstick.

For decades, the yardstick of choice for gauging computer performance has been operations per second — the rate at which the machine can perform mathematical calculations, for example.

AAMI will remain in limbo until government watchdogs are asked to approve a drug developed to treat it, but one thing at least is clear: if it does become the clinical yardstick for deciding who should be prescribed memory - boosting drugs, the potential market will be astronomical.

Ronald Reagan's famous question in the U.S. presidential election of 1980 is generally a good yardstick for picking a candidate, or at least for judging a leader's economic policies.

Using Sobel's yardstick, scientists may be able to start untangling the paradox of smell: why we are so good at distinguishing odors and so bad at naming them.

Molecules ranked at one end of the yardstick stank to high heaven.

Here the yardstick for measuring existential accomplishment is to beat someone at something in the most spectacular way possible.

At the beginning of the week, each child's clothespin is clipped to the green part of the yardstick.

On field trips, every student should be responsible for at least one piece of equipment, whether it be a clipboard, a yardstick, or an expensive widget.

Since the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 refashioned the yardstick for judging schools, alternative education has at times become a silent release valve for schools straining under the pressure of accountability reform.

Yardsticks Vary by Nation in Calling Education to Account Education Week, January 12, 2012 «Daniel Koretz, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, laments the intense «weight and faith given to test scores» in the United States.

To help schools and communities look together at these goals and create a plan of action, the IDRA has outlined Six Goals of Educational Equity that school personnel and communities can use as a yardstick to measure their progress and as a lightning rod to galvanize change.

At CEI we support the promise of the Common Core, particularly in terms of a common curricula, deep conceptual understanding, and its yardstick for measuring progress.

But after more than two years of effort at Liberty, they have yet to see a substantial increase in test scores — the yardstick that the success of the new standards will ultimately be measured on.

Share Yardsticks Guides with families at open houses, teacher conferences, and back - to - school nights and keep one on hand in the classroom for quick and easy reference.

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As cited by Porter, the same thing happens when U.S. hospitals «do whatever it takes to keep patients alive at least 31 days after an operation, to beat Medicare's 30 - day survival yardstick.»

THAT EVENING I arrived back at the hotel convinced I'd saved the best for last, and the next morning, when we're out again, I keep returning to the Twingo as the yardstick with which to judge the others.

Ever since the covers were pulled off the original BMW M5 at the 1984 Amsterdam motor show, it has been the yardstick against which all other super-saloons are judged — and that's a trend that BMW would obviously like to continue with this sixth - generation model.

At the opposite end of the yardstick, Chevrolet showed a «freshened» Trax subcompact crossover.

No matter how we arrive at that future and regardless of whether we are traditionally published or indie, readers will judge the work with the same yardstick: DO I LIKE IT?

In December of 1996, the price to peak earnings ratio (Popup: Why we use price / peak - earnings) was 21, a record at the time by that yardstick.

But you can use the resulting present value figure that you get by discounting your cash flows back at the long - term Treasury rate as a common yardstick just to have a standard of measurement across all businesses.»

Other tricks include making a loud sound, tapping the side of the cage, poking gently with the yardstick or spraying a very small amount of water at them.

It's one of those critical yardsticks of a game's quality that doesn't seem to factor so much anymore — at least, not in the old - school sense.

Participating artists, Taiye Idahor, Kelani Abass and Abraham Oghobase, offer the audience the visual yardsticks of their own artistic progress after each attending residencies at the Salzburg Summer Academy of Fine Arts (SSAFA), Austria, between 2013 and 2015.

At the same time they are real at least in as much as they are measurable by wide scale (beyond the local), sustained (more than decadal) physical, economic and social yardsticks (real people suffered due to the LIAAt the same time they are real at least in as much as they are measurable by wide scale (beyond the local), sustained (more than decadal) physical, economic and social yardsticks (real people suffered due to the LIAat least in as much as they are measurable by wide scale (beyond the local), sustained (more than decadal) physical, economic and social yardsticks (real people suffered due to the LIA).

But the story includes ample hints that such a focus may be tough to sustain given how costly the non-polluting energy technologies remain compared to fossil options, at least if energy costs are measured using conventional economic yardsticks that don't include long - term costs.

Many developing countries have proposed other yardsticks, such as peaking at some distant date, or controlling emissions as a percentage of GDP.

To the extent that Climate Audit posts are a yardstick for CRU articles / documents that are at issue, the Oxburgh «fair sample» is almost mutually exclusive of the CRU articles discussed here.

Patrick Michaels helped The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition develop a set of «five guiding scientific principles» aimed at «offering federal and state government a yardstick against which to measure science in public policy.»

Fresh from the government's lockup, here is a look at the key features, and an early assessment of how they stack up against the yardstick of good policy.

OTOH, Tom Karl's project seeks to bootstrap information about past and future measurements at a large number of sites by setting up a small, optimal network which can be used as a yardstick to check the larger USHCN and the US CO-OP networks.

Thus Lord Nicholls, at [20] and [29], referred to the «equal sharing principle» and to the «sharing entitlement»; those phrases describe more than a yardstick for use as a check.