Sentences with phrase «yardstick with»

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.

Conversely, if there was no satisfactory explanation the estimate might remain a useful yardstick with which to measure reasonableness.

Some might say that the community infrastructure levy («CIL») is just a tax on developers to fund infrastructure, but a recent appeal case showed that it's also a handy yardstick with which to measure human ingenuity...

If there is a satisfactory explanation for the difference then the estimate may cease to be useful as a yardstick with which to measure reasonableness.

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.

We can check this by comparing the federal yardstick with the one used byFlorida as part of its state accountabilitysystem.

The next campaign finance reports are due to be released July 15, giving us a yardstick with which to measure candidate strength.

«They use it as a true yardstick with which to gauge safety, purity and label transparency.»

Overcoming a side ranked 176th in the world is hardly a yardstick with which to measure success or progress, but there were flashes of promise as the first half came to a close.

The balance sheet, which shows the company's assets and liabilities, is another yardstick with which to determine the strength of a company.

Not exact matches

In an era in which organizations of all sizes have become preoccupied with training and certification standards, Yardstick Software, an Edmonton firm, has figured out how to profit from our fascination with measurement.

He picked the Quick Ratio because it takes the traditional yardstick for SaaS startup success (MRR growth) and tempers it with the one metric that hamstrings so many otherwise - promising startups (Churn Rate).

Uber told stockholders that gross bookings, the key yardstick of demand for ride services, rose 11 percent to $ 9.71 billion in the period that ended in September, compared with $ 8.74 billion in the second quarter, said the people.

I've seen it range from $ 25K / year to $ 25K / week, with no reference to levels of taxation or other external yardstick.

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

If you are claiming some «yardstick» of «smarter,» I'll go toe to toe with that statement.

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.

While the linguist takes the parlance of average literate adults as the yardstick of usage, Gwynne's grammarian balances it with the best that has been said and written, John Bull and Samuel Johnson.

Preachers need to speak with the sharp straightness of a yardstick.

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.

The Western countries are increasingly using their view of human rights concept as a yardstick to judge developing countries and to deal with economic and trade relations to extend development assistance.

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....

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.

The power, the intimidation, the fearlessness are still there, but so are grace and finesse and economy of movement, terms previously associated with Houston's Akeem Olajuwon, Ewing's yardstick through most of the»80s, and San Antonio rookie David Robinson, the only other NBA center currently mentioned in the same breath with Ewing and Olajuwon.

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

Agreed that we have rivalry with Tottenham, they should by no means be a yardstick for us.

Mourhino won the CL with both Porto and Inter but am sure even his most adoring fan will never qualify both teams as GREAT or memorable... PG's Cl winning squad will go down in the annals of the game as a yardstick for what and how football should be played.....

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

(We started off with just a few pieces of tape, but soon realized we needed to add quite a bit more to keep the cup from flying off the yardstick.

You may need to use a yardstick to help, and you may also want to mark a straight line down the middle of your fabric with a washable fabric pen or with sewing chalk before you begin.

Almost all women in most developed countries give birth in hospitals, leaving the providers of the birth services with no genuine yardstick against which to measure their care.

With the tax cap, we have a yardstick to measure them wWith the tax cap, we have a yardstick to measure them withwith.

They look for galaxies that contain Cepheid stars and another reliable yardstick, Type Ia supernovae, exploding stars that flare with the same amount of brightness.

Type Ia supernovae, another commonly used cosmic yardstick, are exploding stars that flare with the same brightness and are brilliant enough to be seen from relatively longer distances.

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.

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.

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

Type Ia supernovae, another commonly used cosmic yardstick, are exploding stars that flare with the same intrinsic brightness and are brilliant enough to be seen from much longer distances.

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.

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

This just reinforces my conclusion that Spellcheck is a reincarnated grumpy spinster with a yardstick to be doled out as punishment.

A sewing table refurbished with yardsticks?

A better yardstick of Aldo's ability is how well he's dealt with Frankie Edgar on two separate occasions, Edgar is a fighter who's barely dropped any rounds against every other featherweight he's fought yet Aldo handled him without much trouble both times.

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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.

They treat their favourites with the harshest of yardsticks.

«New Yardsticks to Measure Financial Distress,» American Association for Higher Education / New Pathways Working Paper Series (with K. Chabotar), (1996)

Encourage prompt arrival with a classroom policy, instill preparedness using a grading system, and acknowledge student success with a yardstick and clothespins.

Point to the number line with a yardstick to model how to jump along a number line to add or subtract two - digit numbers or skip - count by a given number.

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