Sentences with phrase «year as a barometer»

While the mainstream media desires to fill time it seems that Iowa has become less important this year as a barometer of the national mood.

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Copper, seen as a barometer of global industrial demand, tumbled 2.5 percent, with three - month copper on the London Metal Exchange also hitting a six - year low of $ 4,920 a tonne.

The so - called January Barometer, as first mentioned by Yale Hirsch of the Stock Trader's Almanac, suggests the performance of stocks in the first month of the calendar year dictates where prices will head for the year overall.

The Almanac originated such important market phenomena as the «January Barometer» and the «Santa Claus Rally» and was instrumental in popularizing other tradable strategies, such as «The Best Six Months Strategy» (commonly known as «Sell in May and Go Away») and the four - year Presidential Election Cycle.

A widely followed market theory, the January barometer, claims that as January goes, so goes the full year.

But, as we've seen in recent years, a Globe win doesn't guarantee an Oscar lock so it's probably not the most accurate Oscar barometer.

The report also has a barometer that measures baby - friendly hospitals despite the importance of this 25 year initiative, only 42 countries have achieved baby friendly status in their hospitals and only half of the hospitals in these countries are classified as being truly «baby friendly».

«Indeed, our efforts at restoring business confidence are beginning to yield positive results, as confirmed by the AGI Business Barometer, showing a consistent rise in business confidence throughout this year.

Political observers are looking closely at Reshma Saujani's run against Rep. Carolyn Maloney, as a barometer of the potency of the anti-incumbent backlash this year.

As the aforementioned Encyclopedia and Red List suggest, the barometer would be only one of many such efforts, particularly given that this is the International Year of Biodiversity, according to the United Nations.

In recent years, Blackburn has expanded on that initial work to show that these gauges of cellular health serve as barometers of environmental and emotional stress and predictors of various diseases.

This year, «down - ballot» races like Question 2 on expanding the cap on charter schools in Massachusetts and the gubernatorial race in North Carolina are generating particular interest as barometers for where state policy might move.

Arts education today is more than instruction: it is also a barometer of our willingness as a nation to provide equity through our public institutions.I applaud Rocco Landesman for bringing his important message directly to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at their joint appearance at the Arts Education Partnership: «Arts exposure is fine, but unless students are prepared for the art, unless teachers are integrating the art into the student's overall learning for the year, it remains exposure, not education....

After the release of the Brown Center's report in September 2000, Stephen O'Brien, the Blue Ribbon program's director, criticized both our reliance on academic achievement as the sole barometer of a good school and our reliance on absolute scores rather than gains in achievement from year to year.

Initially, Bush had proposed that NAEP be administered every year as a national barometer for the state tests.

NAEP is administered to a nationally representative sample of students about every two years, and is seen as a barometer of student achievement across the United States.

One of the most visible barometers of Writer's Edit growth has been their Twitter followers which have grown from 1,000 to 32,000 followers in the space of two years and could be seen as an indication of the demand writer's services both in Australia and further afield.

As investors ring in the new year, some may see the occasional headline about the «January Indicator» or «January Barometer.»

If that is any token as a barometer for natural products in the pet industry, our company — a leader in natural pet products — has seen growth of 20 to 30 percent year - over-year for the past five years.

As the year progresses, data will give us the clearest barometer of which trends are ascending and which may still be struggling to take off.

The top three improvements viewed as most important in the tourism and holiday fields over the last 50 years by Europeans are: 72 %: the development of air transport 71 %: the possibility to arrange your vacations online 69 %: being assisted and protected in the event of problems during your vacations (Source: Travel barometer, Ipsos - Europ Assistance 2013) 68 % of Europeans and Americans believe that medical repatriation is a major improvement when it comes to saving lives, 53 % to travelling as a family and 44 % to discovering far away and less well - known countries.

ATM - considered by many industry professionals as a barometer for the Middle East and North Africa tourism sector, witnessed a year - on - year visitor attendance increase of 8 % to over 39,800 in 2016, with 2,520 exhibiting companies signing business deals worth more than US$ 2.5 billion over four days.

ATM — considered by many industry professionals as a barometer for the Middle East and North Africa tourism sector, witnessed a year - on - year visitor attendance increase of 8 % to over 39,800 in 2016, with 2,520 exhibiting companies, signing business deals worth more than US$ 2.5 billion over four days.

If the barometer of your growth as a person is the friendships you grow from the ground up, then I've done pretty good over the six years.

Kirsty Ogg On the opening night of British New Contemporaries at the Institute of Contemporary Art, we spoke to the competition's director and former curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, Kirsty Ogg, about curating this year's exhibition in London, the selection process and how BNC acts as a barometer for contemporary art.

If any rough barometer reading may be taken from this year's Turner prize, it is that London is increasingly unviable as a place for young artists to make work.