Sentence examples for indices by which from inspiring English sources
Rising prices for assets usually do not figure in the consumer-price indices by which inflation is conventionally measured.
"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.
In cost-effectiveness analysis, the ratio of net healthcare costs to net health benefits (including life expectancy-adjusted quality-of-life indicators, both adverse and beneficial effects of therapy) provides an index by which priorities may be set.
But the consumer-price index by which inflation is measured does not include rising prices for financial assets.
That often leads them to enact policies that promote favorable movements in the indexes by which they are judged.
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".
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.
