Sentences with phrase «yardsticks for»

And a Texas high school teacher concludes, «We must have different yardsticks for different student circumstances so teachers can focus on individual student growth.»

Americans hold disparate goals for high schools, conflicting priorities for strengthening them, and dissimilar yardsticks for tracking progress.

A statement by the PRO, Joseph Attah, said the meeting which was presided by the Minister of Finance and chairman of the board, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, considered the yardsticks for the promotion.

«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.

Still, people tend to use them as yardsticks for successful motherhood.

Adams's yardsticks for success are the normal - sized yardsticks that the rest of the world uses.

For decades, top value investors and market brainiacs have embraced the highly - regarded CAPE index as one of the most reliable yardsticks for weighing under versus overvalued markets.

What are the yardsticks for judging somebody on a particular dimension?»

«In a sense, the yardstick for performance is much higher in the smaller organization,» said Kon Leong, founder and CEO of ZL Technologies.

It is an important yardstick for measuring the firm's profitability for the cash - flow statement and income statement.

Flying in egg - shaped orbits, each one lasting 14 days, Juno also will look for evidence that Jupiter has a dense inner core and measure how much water is in the atmosphere, a key yardstick for figuring out how far away from the sun the gas giant formed.

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.

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).

A solid plan reassures them about the competence of the entrepreneur and provides an objective yardstick for measuring progress and testing initial assumptions.

However, Bank of America's return on average common equity was 7.3 percent, below the 10 percent general yardstick for cost of capital.

But such figures are not a reliable yardstick for measuring how much of your total portfolio you should devote to a particular category of funds.

Without consent, there's no practical yardstick for what is right or wrong, so all we have left is a set of tangled - up beliefs about women being sex objects who are wholly responsible for what happens to them.

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».

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 poor and their fate thus become the yardstick for judging all social, political, economic, religious and missionary developments and programmes.»

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....

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

Top 4 is the only priority for him and his statement just goes to validate the fact top 4 is his yardstick for success.

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

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

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.....

Not too long ago I used to use them as the yardstick for our team in terms of balance and strength in depth.

That's a pretty good yardstick for rationality.

Political interests should not also be the yardstick for breaking the rule on the joint account and usurping the functions of local governments by depriving them of their due share from central pool.

Memorisation is being mistaken for learning and high academic records as a yardstick for measuring the ability of students» creativity.

If he had been in office before, his performance would be the yardstick for voting for him again.

He said, «Education remains a key element and yardstick for measuring the growth of any state.

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.

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.

That became the yardstick for success, not the drafting or passage of important legislation.

«Researchers refine yardstick for measuring schools: Testing the metrics.»

Meanwhile, the state - owned energy firms serve as Beijing's yardstick for reaching policy directions.

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.

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

Ronald Reagan's famous question in the U.S. presidential election of 1980 is generally a good yardstick for picking a candidate, or at least for judging a leader's economic policies.

Flying in egg - shaped orbits, each one lasting 14 days, Juno also will look for evidence that Jupiter has a dense inner core and measure how much water is in the atmosphere, a key yardstick for figuring out how far away from the sun the gas giant formed.

Indoor - air scientists have always used this CO2 as a harmless yardstick for measuring the staleness of indoor air.

10 x lbm is a little low for most people, although lbm is a much better yardstick for those that measure body fat.

Great coaches have been questioning this yardstick for some time.

I hope I'm a better writer now, though this blog is probably not the best yardstick for measuring my progress.

While this is true to some extent, a better yardstick for ascertaining how a good a site is the number of active members.

Here the yardstick for measuring existential accomplishment is to beat someone at something in the most spectacular way possible.

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.

In addition to being an excellent yardstick for measuring talent, shorts can jumpstart film careers if the stars align just right.

While NAEP, the Nation's Report Card, scores are the gold standard for measuring student achievement and serve as a yardstick for state comparisons, NAEP results are generally not known by students and their families, who rely on their state test results to know how they are performing.