Sentences with phrase «yardstick by»

This is not only the simplest but also the most accurate yardstick by which to judge.»

I had no idea, because there was no yardstick by which to measure production.

It is the yardstick by which «upscale» is measured.

Bank buildings became the yardstick by which other buildings in a town or neighbourhood were measured.

You need a yardstick by which to measure the success of your online content and promotions; otherwise, how will you ever know what visitors like?

Its instruction is the yardstick by which we measure our own...

I still use that client as the yardstick by which I measure my own parenting skills.

It is human nature to focus on short term goals in the pursuit of easily attainable success, so how do we retrain ourselves to think differently and lengthen the yardstick by which we measure ourselves?

The estimate is a useful yardstick by which the reasonableness of the costs may be measured.

Non-billable time is a yardstick by which the firm can measure an associate's level of interest in the success of the law firm.

In terms of a yardstick by which to measure the government's progress, one instructive source can be found on the Labour Party's own website, which lists a «Top 50» of achievements from 11 years in office.

Yes, lets take his «inspired by real scientists» speeches as the yardstick by which to judge the actual scientific evidence.

«The index would incorporate all of the characteristics to create a yardstick by which forests around the world could be measured to give a degree of uniformity for the investor,» explained Murray - Philipson.

The typical answer is «baselines», which are the yardstick by which countries measure whether they have successfully reduced deforestation or not.

He was highly respected as an artist and his art remains the yardstick by which English painters can measure themselves and their work.

Many institutional investors who invest primarily in Nasdaq stocks use this index as a yardstick by which to measure the performance of their portfolios.

There is a great weight of responsibility on the shoulders of Motorola's 10.1 - inch tablet: people are using it as a yardstick by which to measure the success of Android tablets against the Apple iPad, a comparison that isn't completely fair (not that you care about ethics when handling over your cash) and one that is likely to shift dramatically during the Xoom's life.

It was a good yardstick by which to measure my progress in my online platform.

Why Edmunds Recommends the 2017 Mercedes - Benz S - Class: The flagship of the Mercedes - Benz lineup, the S - Class is not only the automaker's crown jewel, but it's also the yardstick by which other elite executive - class sedans are measured.

After all, the results of the test were the yardstick by which the effectiveness of every school in Georgia was measured.

Our Six Essential Questions provide a yardstick by which to measure our progress, keep us focused as we grow, and — most important — help us keep the promises we make to our students and their families.

The research keeps coming back to this critical point: student progress is the yardstick by which teacher quality should be assessed.»

Playing hapless babysitter Laurie Strode, Curtis is the original half - dressed damsel in distress — and the yardstick by which all horror actresses are still measured.

Many hold a belief that toe touching is a yardstick by which to measure «flexibility» and that stretching with straight knees will loosen their tight hamstrings.

Currently the major yardstick by which postdocs are judged is their publication track record, as there generally are no formal performance appraisals for postdocs.

Albany historian and former New York State Assemblyman Jack McEneny has one yardstick by which he suggests sizing up any politician: «You're only as good as your last mistake.»

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

... Legal change has been constrained because marriage serves as the yardstick by which law reformers measure other adult relationships as worthy of mutual rights and obligations in the family arena.

The point is the canon (from cubit) is the yardstick by which all other yardsticks are measured first,... off a degree in port, miles off course out to sea, i.e. (upon this rock ain't the pope) been there done that,..

The yardstick by which one measures one's own (real or supposed) excellence also measures the other man's defects, to one's own great comfort.

But we must not equate our personal financial decisions with godliness and use them as the yardstick by which to judge — because while we may be able to see what others are spending, we almost always can't tell why.

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.

But once Bannister did it, all of a sudden other runners started repeating the feat, and today the four - minute mile is considered a yardstick by which all distance runners are measured.

These and other issues will be critical yardsticks by which the Liberal Democrats can show the public how a coalition government is far better than an unfettered Conservative administration would have been.

Not exact matches

I've generally judged smartphone cameras by the yardstick set by Apple, since the iPhone has for years led the way in top - notch mobile imaging.

«We often use that service as the thin edge of the wedge,» says Kureluk, pointing out that this software gives Yardstick the opportunity to upsell other products and services to its customers, such as the «e-learning» software tools developed by a firm that Yardstick bought earlier this year and sold online.

Yardstick's longer - term objective — what Kureluk calls the company's «big hairy audacious goal» — is to become the most recognized testing brand in the Commonwealth by 2030.

Indeed, the U.S stock market has been over-valued for more than a decade going by several yardsticks — yet it's still holding up.

The amount of equity the owner has in the business is an important yardstick used by investors when evaluating the company.

Snap's post-IPO success will be measured by a similar yardstick.

By that yardstick, today the measure of a good brand is that it resists a fixed definition.

«The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick.

Mr. Agrawal also had a distinct idea how he program's success would be measured: not by number of jobs or startups generated — a typical yardstick — but equity value created by CDL companies as they raised money.

For sure, this is smartness, in the secular meaning of the word, as measured by the yardstick of achievement in the secular realm.

If God even judges us, she / he will do it by his / her own yardstick.

In the teaching of Jesus, goodness is not measurable by any yardstick.

His yardstick for measuring democracy, however, is primarily one of national election, Western - style, while China «remains one of the very few countries in the world today that does not even pretend to choose its leaders by popular election» (p. xi).

You are no Christian by your own yardstick.

Jesus doesn't measure sucess by the same yardstick as we do.

manpower, funds, space) to the exclusion of other ideas, and it allows greater diversity in expression by avoiding the use of the «church vision» as the yardstick of validity instead of the relationship with God.