But the consumer-price index by which inflation is measured does not include rising prices for financial assets.
Rising prices for assets usually do not figure in the consumer-price indices by which inflation is conventionally measured.
As for prison conditions in the country, Mr. Godwin contends, they are miserable — another index "by which to measure the depths of depravity of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe".
"We're in an unusual financial period where interest rates are very low, and the indices by which the rates are set are also very low".
Officials now often talk of setting up "happiness indices" by which government performance should be judged.The word's popularity among bureaucrats is more an attempt to please leaders in Beijing and show sympathy for the less well-off than a sign of any real determination to change their ways.
Finally, lifespan (L) or individual age-at-death itself is an index by which data may be structured.
Or secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer method, to get a thorough insight into the index, by which the whole book is governed and turned, like fishes by the tail.
Once it reaches that level it will begin to rise each year by inflation as measured by the Consumer Prices Index, instead of the Retail Prices Index by which it currently rises, which is usually higher.
These conditions structure mass culture and media content in both countries, and because media is a defining sector of developed economies like the United States it also is a telling index by which we can gauge how China both emulates and diverges from its major interlocutor.
