Sentences with phrase «yardstick make»

Not exact matches

Just make sure you pick a goal and not a yardstick.

We have contributed to making university sport into big business and big business the yardstick of education.»

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).

In my experience, nothing can make you feel more like you have just been measured by The Yardstick Of The Approval Of Others like parenting can.

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.

Both reports are designed to give communities a yardstick of their overall health vibrancy, underline traits and outcomes that push regions to the top of the rankings or bring them down, and provide insight into particular areas where improvements can be made.

The leadership of the South - South zone of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has defended appointments so far made by President Muhammadu Buhari, contending that political appointments are not the yardstick for development.

Astronomers thought that all Type Ia supernovas shine with the same brightness, making them incredibly useful cosmic yardsticks.

These yardsticks can elucidate what makes effective principals — including the characteristics and training they bring to the profession and the organization of their schools.

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.

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).

When we adjusted the gains made by students in each school to take into account a wide variety of individual and peer - group background characteristics, such as ethnicity, English language - learner status, family income, and student mobility rates, the yardstick's performance actually worsened.

One of the goals of the Common Core was to make comparisons across states possible by measuring all students with the same yardstick.

This gives the impression that scientific or mathematical yardsticks are used by educational policy makers to make policy decisions.

Investors are always looking for mathematical and scientific yardsticks to evaluate their decisions regarding their investments, but the educational policies of our nation have only been made with the yardstick of political expediency.

Therefore, using that federally mandated data as the yardstick for school accountability makes sense.

Yet that kind of learning has been made harder by the lack of common yardsticks that enable thoughtful comparison and study.

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The sum of the different improvements made to this engine has produced a gain of 20hp and 40Nm over Mégane R26.R which itself emerged as the yardstick in the world of performance hatches.

Donald Maass, literary agent and author of many books on writing, says, «Independent editor Ray Rhamey's first - page checklist is an excellent yardstick for measuring what makes openings interesting.»

Commodities can be measured in this fashion to other commodities, but they lack the uniformity, consistency and familiarity and fungibility of gold which make it a useful yardstick.

Lenders review your application forms and make their mind if you are touching their yardsticks.

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.

Later, she became the neighborhood girl who set up agility courses made of paint cans, yardsticks, and other «finds» from the garage for her Shetland Sheepdog to run through.

Oversized rulers, made of painted canvas, sit alongside a giant wooden yardstick, an austere large - scale metal quick square and a mechanical pair of compasses.

As an integrating measurement made with high accuracy, freshwater content (salinity anomaly over a layer) is the most sensitive yardstick available for observing the global fingerprint of a changing hydrological cycle.

Drawing on what they said was the most comprehensive data set ever compiled in the developing world, the researchers aimed to provide a yardstick that public policymakers can use as they consider the implications of decisions now being made on energy.

Six years of warmer weather do not a climate change make, not by any climatologist's yardstick.

The Court of Appeal referred back to the seminal case of White v White [2001] 1 AC 596, [2001] 1 All ER 1, in which reference was made to the concept of the «yardstick of equality» which was introduced to ensure that there was no discrimination between the husband and the wife and their respective roles as money - earner and home - maker and child - carer.

Each level of people's court should establish a centralized administrative platform for the judicial review of arbitration awards, to strengthen the informatized management and data analysis of cases regarding applications to confirm the validity of an arbitation agreement, cases regarding applications to cancel or enforce arbitration awards of our domestic arbitration institutions, applications to recognize and enforce Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macau Special Administrative Region, Taiwan Region arbitration awards, cases regarding applications to recognize and enforce foreign arbitral awards, and cases relating to the judicial review of arbitration such as refusal to accept, reject the filing, or objection to jurisdiction and others relating to the confirmation of the validity of an arbitration agreement; the effective guarantee of the correct application of law and of a unified yardstick for judicial decision - making.

To try correctly judicial review of arbitration cases according to law and guarantee a unified yardstick for judicial decision - making, protect the legal rights of parties, promote the healthy and orderly development of arbitration matters and the establishment of a diverse dispute resolution mechanism, we notify the various levels of the people's court handling judicial review of arbitration cases of the following:

Do not make quotes auto insurance as the only point for identification ofe of the many yardsticks to measure a company by.

Therefore, the claim settlement ratio is an important yardstick to make up your mind weather the insurance company can be trusted for the settlement of claims based on its current and past claims settlement figures before you sign a policy contract with them.

But while 10 - 14x revenues is a common M&A yardstick right now, Hulu's reliance on its equity owners» content for the bulk of its value make it highly unlikely that it will come anywhere close.

Good to Know: To make your own beam compass, duct tape a pencil to one end of a yardstick with the point about 1/2 an inch past the edge.

I just framed out a chalkboard in my kitchen with them... to match the yardstick backsplash I made.

Next I cut the yardsticks to fit the top, staggering the numbers a bit and making some lengths more than one piece long.

I can't wait to start collecting yardsticks to make mine cute like yours!