Sentence examples for a reliable index from inspiring English sources

Mr. Barth, who has made a series of fine, if overlooked, records since leaving Terence Blanchard's group a decade ago, is a reliable index of what the best of modern, mainstream jazz piano playing sounds like.

The wine trade regards the contest as a reliable index of New York regional development, styles, quality and leadership.

But, more and more, big investors are treating excess compensation as a reliable index that something serious may be wrong.

Sometimes, yes, the best picture prize would actually go to the best picture, but more often the academy's neglect of a film was a reliable index of its merit.

Insiders and Outsiders, much more than "Creators and Creation," gradually emerges as the dominant motif in Bissell's book, and where a subject falls on that spectrum is a reliable index to the quality of the writing.

Because the spectrum of a star is a reliable index of its absolute magnitude, its distance can be inferred from the known relationship between the apparent and absolute magnitudes.

Because of the mobility of horsemen, raiding parties could gather from great distances, and thus the size of these groups (even if that were known) did not provide a reliable index of population density because their origins were unknown.

Introduction: Aortic end-systolic pressure (ESP) is considered as a reliable index of left ventricular afterload.

It's that what passes for interesting has been shorn of a reliable index in the move toward social filtering.

Urine albumin creatinine ratio (UACR) is a reliable index of urinary albumin excretion.

A drainage map of basin provides a reliable index of permeability of rocks and their relationship between rock type, structures and their hydrological status.