Sentence examples for a narrow measure from inspiring English sources

The way quality is measured (through the journal rankings and related metrics) is a narrow measure, but is extremely influential in global debates on higher education.

But in 1996, the Legislature passed a narrow measure intended for sex offenders that returned the parole limits to the 1979 standard.

If we "win" clients, they really do lose them.Second, patent applications are a narrow measure of innovation from an outdated, more mechanical, world.

The Senate today abandoned its effort to pass a plan to boost the economy, but then briefly put aside partisan recriminations to approve a narrow measure extending unemployment benefits for 13 weeks beyond the current 26-week limit.

1.06pm: Denham says that, although today's vote is on a narrow measure, behind it is a policy that represents the most profound change in university funding since the 1920s.

The sociologist George Ritzer has attacked the fast food industry for celebrating a narrow measure of efficiency over every other human value, calling the triumph of McDonald's the irrationality of rationality.

A narrower measure of global money, M1, is currently estimated at about $17 trillion.

A narrower measure omitting transgender people was approved three years ago in the House but died in the Senate.

Ryan said House leadership is not considering a narrower measure that would only address the family separation crisis, as some members of the chamber have advocated.

For now, at least, Mr. Ryan declined to entertain the possibility of considering a narrower measure aimed at stopping the separation of migrant families.

But House members also took up a narrower measure that would slow enforcement of Dodd-Frank requirements and weaken other regulations on financial services companies.