Sentence examples for gauges like the from inspiring English sources

Their stubby pipes protrude from the sand, covered in valves and gauges, like the tips of long straws, waiting to suck up the oil underneath.

During the debate, the overnight futures markets rallied, raising the value of broad stock market gauges like the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index by two-thirds to three-quarters of a percentage point.

That's correct; even though other inflation gauges like the CPI increased 2.6% last year, the BEA claimed inflation was just flat.

Then, says Holland, "we'd start seeing the 'Prius effect,'" referring to the reported tendency of car owners to drive more conservatively when they have gauges like the Toyota Prius's that register real-time fuel consumption.

Jagdish N. Bhagwati, a professor of economics at Columbia, said the number of gauges like these had multiplied since the 1980s, when The Economist magazine created the Big Mac Index, an informal comparison of the cost of hamburgers in different countries used to analyze exchange rates.

These ratings will tell investors whether to emphasize or de-emphasize their holdings in the industry, relative to a broad gauge like the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index.

To this end, we introduce the concept of low-dimensional Gauge-like symmetries (GLSs), and the physical conservation laws (including topological terms, fractionalization, and the absence of quasi-particle excitations) which emerge from them.

Doug already gave you the lowdown on the TL9 last week, but I just spent a few seconds with it and noticed the 'cute' fuel gauge-like meters telling you how much juice and memory you have left.

Sales at stores open at least a year, a measure retailers use to gauge like-for-like demand, fell by 31.7 percent.

The store had to look professional, because we wanted to gauge whether people liked the products or not.

Its high resistance to impact made it a desirable material for protective goggles, tool handles, oil gauges, and the like.