"They are almost already where they were at the end of last season at the beginning of this year, which is always great to see". For both teams, it represented a chance to get their feet wet in direct competition and gauge where they are early in the season.
Using competition to gauge excellence, in an arena where collaboration is essential for good research process and transfer, was seen as problematic.
Male D. montana gauged the intensity of competition from rival males and adjusted the duration of copulation, used as a proxy of reproductive investment, accordingly.
The Knicks hope the gantlet of top-flight competition will help gauge its progress.
Margins have held up better in America, but are likely to fall as new commercial-bank competition muscles in.One gauge of this pressure is that, despite near-ideal operating conditions, the industry has been consolidating.
New-world exports have surged over the past decade; those from Chile are up over 400%, and those from Australia up 350%.The British market provides a particularly useful gauge of the state of competition, because Britain is the world's biggest importer of wine.
If the meeting between Katie Taylor and Natasha Jonas in the women's competition is a gauge, the Anglo-Irish clash between Campbell and Nevin will bring the house down.
"We want to gauge public opinion on the competition entries before we select the preferred design for what will become a major landmark in the city," he said.
In the mid-19th century it became connected to the rest of Britain by a complex set of railway lines which resulted from competition between the broad gauge lines of the Great Western Railway (GWR) and the standard gauge lines of the London and South Western Railway (LSWR).
Gauging the motivations of your competition can help you plan accordingly; for example, if they're working hard to achieve a certain ranking, they may fight back even harder if you attempt to directly compete with them.
