Sentence examples for a universal measure from inspiring English sources

A note regarding the Executive Assessment: The EA was specifically designed for executives and provides the admissions team with a universal measure to evaluate candidates.

A non-linear amplitude is selected to be a universal measure of bubble oscillation intensity and its relation to natural intensity measures is determined.

Placing the 'potential slide' on the non-negative half-line, the Global Minimum attained by the diffuser's trajectory becomes a universal measure for the Peak Height.

For anti-affirmative action advocates, standardized test scores are seen as the gold standard of academic ability since they are a universal measure, unlike grades that are local assessments of abilities and subject to grade inflation.

Interestingly, the majority believe that a universal measure of quality of life would have dramatic, positive effects on the quality and effectiveness of social care, including improving placement stability (74% agreed) and reducing long-term care costs (67% agreed).

The underlying premise for this contribution is that time is thus not a universal measure that externally orders events, but rather a fieldwork feature deeply embedded in and generated through social practices.

The prime example is the International System of Units or Système Internationale (SI), which was adopted by the Eleventh General Conference of Weights and Measures (Conferérence Générale des Poids et Mesures) in 1960 as a universal measuring system used in all areas of science (2).

In the mid seventeenth century John Wilkins, the first secretary of England's Royal Society, was asked by the society to devise a "universal standard of measure".

Wilkins' Essay was widely circulated at the time, but the main interest in the Essay was his proposal for a philosophical language in general rather than just a universal standard for units of measure.

They propose performance measures as a universal standard to correct for differential self-report of various subgroups.

This would have generated an incentive among Soqotrans to appropriate poverty as a self-defining concept, which, in turn, would have entailed a communal submission to an 'abstract universal measure of underconsumption' (Illich [1992]:94).