Sentence examples for an index of progress from inspiring English sources

These perceptions are largely consistent with an index of progress compiled by the Brookings Institution and the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center.

In time, those common threads came to imbue Obama's Presidential campaign with a kind of historical momentum, remaking it as something more vast than one man's political ambitions: an index of progress itself.

For the two goal-setting groups, comparison of goal performance and satisfaction ratings made at initial and follow-up assessments provided an index of progress with achieving goals, and effect sizes (Cohen's d [ 55]) were calculated using the difference between the two means divided by the pooled standard deviation; extent of goal attainment was compared using Fisher's Exact Test.

Early science in Britain also relied on donated labour – and this remained true for a length of time that might demoralise people with a belief in science as an index of human progress, including the aforementioned Huxley, who often bemoaned the shortage of scientific career opportunities in the 19th century.

Looking at the industries on the list as an index of inclusivity shows progress within sectors not usually associated with LGBT diversity.

"In a war without battle lines, perhaps the best over-all index of progress is that of casualties" was the less macabre explanation offered by the briefing officer at the Saigon headquarters in his standard orientation lecture for newcomers and visitors.

We also measured the ratios of mature (90 kDa) to immature (56 kDa) DAT as an index of how readily EL2-CCPGCC DAT progresses through the biosynthetic pathway.

The growth of the ability and need to transport large quantities of goods or numbers of people over long distances at high speeds in comfort and safety has been an index of civilization and in particular of technological progress.

Measures were also created for competent management and transparency, such as the presence of a petty cash book and completed child progress reports, and an index of self help.

The Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index can be decomposed into an index of efficiency change (MLEFFCH) and an index of technological progress (MLTECH) {mathrm{ML}}_t^{t+1}={mathrm{ML}mathrm{EFFCH}}_times1} times {mathrm{ML}mathrm{TECH}}_t^{t+1} (13).

It is an index of everything".