Sentence examples for a primary gauge from inspiring English sources

The gross domestic product (GDP) is basically the total value of goods and services produced in the US and is a primary gauge for evaluating the condition of not just the economy, but also the economic circumstances of Americans who, after all, have to be working to produce those goods and services and have enough money to buy them.

Arguing that no single measure of development predicts the future as reliably as the well-being of children, Bellamy also suggested that African nations use a series of child-centred standards as their primary gauge of progress.

In the last 12 months, the index, which is the primary gauge of inflation, has risen 5percentt.

This paper measures ENSO effects on rice production in Indonesia-nationally and regionally-and on world rice prices using the August sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA) as the primary gauge of climate variability.

Today in the United States, producing higher scores on standardized tests of academic skills is the dominant goal of teacher professional development, the primary gauge of teacher productivity, and the almost single-minded focus of educator accountability.

Links are the primary gauge Google uses to evaluate authority and trustworthiness.

On the surface, this appears to be true, especially if you use English and math placement test results for newly enrolled community college students as your primary gauge.

Decreased hepatic clearance of plasma LDL-cholesterol is the primary gauge of PCSK9 activity in humans; however, PCSK9's evolutionary role may extend to other lipoprotein classes and processes.

The department's weekly reports are the primary gauges of demand used by utilities, traders and speculators to predict price movements in the $120 billion gas market in the United States.

The American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (ASBMT) has proposed the 6 month (m) freedom from treatment failure (FFTF) as a primary endpoint to gauge treatment efficacy in aGVHD clinical trials.

The present findings are consistent with the idea of using a self-report in lieu of a clinician rating as a primary outcome, or to gauge treatment benefit in routine practice.