Sentence examples for judging progress from inspiring English sources

The second is the habit a legacy of Thatcherism of judging progress in purely financial terms.

We propose that the next government should reject growth in GDP as the main yardstick for judging progress.

Pursuing that aim, rather than judging progress by the numbers of freshly-hatched schools, is the vital next step towards better education.

Some of the president's advisers warn that trying to measure success in the anticorruption campaign could resemble judging progress in Vietnam by enemy body counts.

Senators on the panel expressed some impatience with the Obama administration's failure so far to articulate benchmarks for judging progress in Afghanistan and Pakistan, although Ms. Flournoy promised that they would be ready soon.

For a decade or so, my colleagues at the New Economics Foundation, and many others, have been peddling the idea of judging progress in public services in terms of what they call "outcomes" – the stuff that happens as a result of services, not rewarding staff for how much activity there is.

It would be wrong to judge progress by the number of bills passed".

All too often people judge progress on climate change by treaties.

But the biggest problem is that we will never know how to judge progress.

"By the standard by which we judge progress, southern Sudan falls very short of the mark," Ms. Erasmus said.

In both love and grief, people lose their ability to judge progress and distance from the ground.