Sentence examples for honest measures from inspiring English sources

For example, if the manager of a Mobil fuel brand in Brazil wants to emphasize that the brand gives an honest gallon (because other brands of fuel in Brazil are not considered reliable in their measurements), he would add "honest measures" to the country brand identity.

Again, we can use the nominal figures, which suggest we're paying record amounts – $10.7bn in 2013-14: Or we can use again the more honest measures of proportion of GDP or revenue and see that the level of interest payments is well below what we had to pay in the 1980s and 1990s – even when our total debt was higher.

Libor is meant to be an honest, reliable measure of the cost of borrowing between banks.

There are plenty of tutorials on YouTube. 3 Take an honest measure of your neck.

He took an honest measure of his capacities, set reasonable objectives and recalibrated his preparations to fit these realities.

The New Yorker, November 7, 1936 P. 11 We often wonder whether we are giving our readers honest measure in this page.

If the test is an honest measure of a solid curriculum, then teaching kids the skills and knowledge they need to pass it is honorable work.

By E. B. White and James R. Fleming The New Yorker, November 7, 1936 P. 11 We often wonder whether we are giving our readers honest measure in this page.

Ten astynomoi were responsible for municipal upkeep and cleanliness in the city of Athens and the port of Piraeus; 10 agoranomoi kept order in the marketplace, and 10 other metronomoi ensured that honest measuring standards were respected; and the "Eleven" dealt with courts, prisons, and, more generally, criminal justice.

Meanwhile, cash flow from operations--arguably the most honest measure of a company's health--had plummeted 78% since 2004.

As for future political leadership: The run-offs are moving ahead despite the fact that last November's elections involved so much fraud and voter exclusion as to be illegitimate by any honest measure.