Sentences with phrase «yardstick when»

While manufacturers» official figures are often hard to match in the real world, they serve as a useful yardstick when comparing cars.

MacDonald said the findings underscore the importance of choosing the right yardstick when analyzing the global trade network.

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.»

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

Belief in the sign of Jonah (3 days and 3 nights as per Mat 12:40) may, however, be of vital importance, serving as a yardstick for Jesus to «measure» our faith in Him when He comes to «separate the sheep from the goats».

Those whose existence allows us the opportunity for growth in love have a value that can not be properly measured when rationality is the yardstick.

And the funny thing is I used to think they were good, but nothing to salivate over (that's my yardstick But it all started one stormy night last fall, when I went to a blogger event where they were serving crepes.

Except when it's entirely fair, when the team that was beat over the head with a yardstick for decades gets to enjoy it.

Perhaps Real's willingness to sell is a yardstick for how confident the Spanish champions are when it comes to landing Cristiano Ronaldo.

«We are moving into a time when every operational strategy will be measured against a yardstick of sustainability.»

When measured with an ecological yardstick, it is — fish stocks are healthy and the fishery is certified by the Marine Stewardship Council as consistently meeting rigorous biological standards.

The yardstick for determining when the hunters crossed over is farther south, in Clovis, New Mexico.

It is hard to say, when there is no external yardstick against which to measure progress.

When the noses of our distant ancestors evolved into sophisticated molecular detectors, he suggests, they started to process key traits to come up with a simple measurement — an internal yardstick.

There is also an odor object version of «banana,» a combination of the inherent pleasantness of the molecules released by the fruit (as measured by Sobel's yardstick) and our subjective mental state when we encounter them.

It's the yardstick we should always use when considering a person's interest.

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.

Almost without exception, the primary yardstick that states use when they want to judge schools and students is a test.

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.

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.

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.

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.

That's a good yardstick, if your cash flow is 3.5 % when the 10 - year is 1.75 %.

When you're finished straightening up, put the carrier back inside, bar the door with the yardstick, unlock the carrier door, close the cage door, etc..

So this is a fairly good yardstick to use when calculating the cost per mile of your redemption.

When we get some good scientific analysis which brings an understanding of that question, we will have advanced the yardsticks a very long way.

Will any of this be enough, when measured against the most rigorous yardstick of all: what the science requires to avert catastrophe?

The sharing principle was established in the judgment of White v White, when Lord Nicholls stated that tentative views must be checked «against the yardstick of equality», but cautioned that introducing a 50 - 50 division of assets as a starting point would be «impermissible judicial gloss»; introducing a legal provision was a «matter for parliament».

Also, in B.C., since Resurfice some appellate judges seem to have expressed the view (not in dissenting reasons) that the Athey material contribution test was never a separate test for proof of factual causation in negligence but merely a causal «yardstick» explaining when the but - for test applies.

«My view is that this is an important yardstick to apply when considering which firm should get carriage,» Rochon adds.

With a built - in yardstick it was so handy and high for working at when the weather was decent.