Sentences with phrase «yardstick does»

Schools face varying challenges that depend in part on the populations they serve, so perhaps the federal yardstick does better when those challenges are considered.

In the U.S., not surprisingly, Yardstick doesn't have such complete command of its market niches.

The yardstick did such a good job of measuring the quality of odors that the scientists could use it to predict just how pleasant (or unpleasant) people would rate a new molecule.

Not exact matches

Better yet, in a world of never - ending to - do lists it provides a yardstick of when to consider the day done and go home.»

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.

In Canada, Kureluk continues, Yardstick discovered that there was no one else doing this kind of work.

The key is for you to set goals like it's really your business; then use them as a yardstick for to measure everything your startup does.

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

If God even judges us, she / he will do it by his / her own 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-!)

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).

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,..

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

I make no pact with Death, oppress no virtuous people, oppress no poor person... I do not use my strength as a yardstick for virtue, and do not say that weakness argues its own futility....

Animal biomass is not a relevant yardstick of sustainability (although I don't know if that's the point that was being made, necessarily).

Nonsense, what does longevity mean, World cup is the yardstick, where is Ronaldo dalima, how dare you rate Christiana Ronaldo over Dalima, that's inept, Why should Messi be above Maradonna, The quality of footballers now are even lesser than ever, all we have are two inches above average players in Messi and Ronando, remember Zidane time where we had Figo, ROnaldino, Seedorf, Maldini, Nedved, Crespo, Batistuta, Shevy.....

You just need to adjust your «yardstick» — in other words, don't measure your baby's success compared to other BW babies (including your first).

With marriage as the yardstick, the relationship between parents with a child in common does not seem worthy of a legal status.

Some of my friends in the media vigorously attack Nigerian journalists and statesmen who openly commend the Ghanaian administration for the strides made so far.Chief Dele Momodu recently said this about of our President «People don't know why I love Ghana so much and the current leader in particular.He is modest, not flamboyant as we see of other leaders», on BBC few days ago Nigerians interviewed used the positive signs in Ghana as appropriate yardstick to attack their government, a documentary going round in the international media exposes the lackadaisical performance of the Nigerian government using the positive performance recorded under John Mahama.The latest BBC reports on the Nigerian economy captures that the cost of living in Nigeria continue to soar and in June, accelerated to 16.5 % the highest rate in almost 11 years.Gari which is supposed to be the cheapest commodity in the country can not be afforded by the poor.

We don't have hard IRS data for any year after 2009, which was the worst year in the recession, so this is not a great yardstick.

But it did give the maximum allowable financial contribution to Teachout, and her showing in the four - county Capital Region — where the state workforce is concentrated — could be a good yardstick for the union's might.

«We are clear that the yardsticks for testing the credibility and reliability of victims in sexual abuse cases do not serve the police or prosecutors well and risk leaving an identifiable group of vulnerable victims unprotected by the criminal law.

Study co-author Linda - Gail Bekker, MD, PhD — Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and current President of the International AIDS Society — says, «Whether the yardstick is mortality, life expectancy or new transmissions, these reductions would almost certainly produce proportionally greater harm than savings — do more human harm than economic good.»

«It doesn't show how the presence or absence of the menopause affects Darwinian fitness,» how successful an individual is in passing on his or her genes to future generations, «which is the all - important evolutionary yardstick.»

Species that don't adhere to normal evolution rates, he says, are like yardsticks that don't measure 36 inches.

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.

After all, everything we ever do, say, or experience is measured against the yardstick of human endeavor.

With my Australia yardstick firmly intact, anything that doesn't include a 17 - hour leg is considered a short trip in my book...

Consider the breathless, reserved way the elder Affleck shoots the storming of a barricaded old house, the grisly discovery in an upstairs bathroom, and the product of a series of violent acts that ends, a few scenes later, with a conversation between young Patrick and crusty Bressant about regret, forgiveness, and the impossibility of doing the right thing when there's no reliable yardstick for measuring propriety.

After a few repetitions of narrated jumps, the yardstick jumping with bridging can be done silently as the class recites the 7s aloud.

I established order the first day and did whatever it took to maintain that tenuous state — including carrying a yardstick and losing my sense of humor altogether.

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute was one of the leading voices offering these ideas in a mutually reinforcing framework, recognizing that innovative schools needed the yardstick for quality that standards create, and accountability systems alone don't build the pressure that the school choice agenda promised.

Nor is Ryan optimistic about the impact of the standards and testing movement, primarily because the bars have been set too low, which means that the urban schools, placing all their efforts into passing, manage to do so, while the suburban schools easily surpass the state's yardsticks.

In 2004, only 47 of the state's 2,649 schools were given an F, while 184 were given a D. Meanwhile, under the federal yardstick, 75 percent of schools did not make AYP, including more than half of the schools Florida had given an A (see Figure 1).

But does the AYP yardstick actually distinguish between higher - and lower - quality schools?

The difference is a change in the yardstick used to measure «proficiency» — what students in a certain grade level should know and be able to do — rather than a change in how students performed on the tests.

Those results, among the first trickling out from states» newly revamped yardsticks, paint a picture of a K - 12 system that remains hesitant to differentiate between the best and the weakest performers — as well as among all those in the middle doing a solid job who still have room to improve.

But it does sound like this is going to be yet another blow to Adequate Yearly Progress or AYP, the law's signature yardstick.

And then do a yardstick that shows how state accountability systems match up to it.

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.»

Slekar says Common Core standards, the educational benchmarks now being implemented in school districts across the state, are not the right yardstick and points out that the nation's best and most exclusive schools do not use them.

How do you replace the yardstick?

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?

It's not too difficult to assess this if you take just the KDP Fund as the yardstick, although this does ignore completely the cash paid out to trad publishers on Kindle Unlimited.

While alimony is an expense I hope I never have to pay, I do have a minimum monthly mortgage that's my main yardstick for measuring my dividend income progress.

Anybody who says that they have a wonderful business that's earning a lousy return on invested capital has got a different yardstick than we do.

However, a single index may not be the best yardstick for the fund, even if the fund's portfolio does not undergo frequent changes.

Warren Buffett set out a yardstick to measure his success, and told his investors that if he didn't produce greater returns to take their money elsewhere.

Four, a culture done before, and again after, treatment gives you a yardstick to measure the success of your therapy.