Sentence examples for 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.

"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.

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.

Regarding "Index of social progress doesn't quite add up" (April 12): In Latin America it is evident that economic growth has masked a host of social ills.

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.

These dynamic bodily characteristics of responding were predicted to index the progress of the longer-timescale cognitive task of paired-associate learning.

Therefore, to determine the necessary support, the observed information is compared with a database based on the Brunnstrom stages, which index the progress of a patient's recovery after a stroke [16].

This result is in fact predicted by very recent work by Stephen, Dixon, and Isenhower [42], in which entropy-based measures index the progress of solving a gear problem (see also Ref. 43 for related discussion).

It appears from this observation that body weight control could be an important index in progress evaluation of any glucose-lowering intervention programme in diabetes therapy.