Sentence examples for measurable against from inspiring English sources

But the $4 million it expects to award next year for risk studies is barely measurable against the $847 million in federal money that President Bush has proposed for nanotechnology research and development for the 2004 fiscal year.

Gordon Benson, designer of the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, has written that "their best work, the most distinguished architecture in Scotland since Mackintosh, is measurable against anything produced in Europe in the same period".

Analysts are still assessing the numbers released on Tuesday: Tesco bought RBS out of its 50.0% holding in the venture in December for 950.0 million pounds ($1.4 billion), so part of the year till the end of February aren't quite measurable against the previous year's figures, but analysts remain hopeful about the division.

As seen in Table 2, when compared to virus alone, anti-HIV activity was measurable against both X4 and R5 viruses for the majority of CVL tested.

Partnerships must have tangible benefits for both parties, and be measurable against these.

However, these examples were unusual, and draw attention to what Blommaert calls "creativity within constraints" (ref. 56, p 107), a local form of creativity which is situated in what he calls "the borderline zone of existing hegemonies…it becomes creative because it is measurable against normative hegemonic standards, because it creates understandable contrasts to such standards" (p 106).

As part of the changes, each Radio 2 DJ now has a dedicated whiteboard with a series of "measurables" against which performance is judged, including the number of tracks played and how many times they were referenced on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

If successful, such studies could catalyse efforts to advance definitions, animal models and the characterization of measurable outcomes against which to test the drugs.

Many products made abroad have become cheaper, but globalization is forcing us to balance those measurable gains against a pernicious vulnerability that undermines the implicit social compact of shared progress in advanced civilizations.

Today's Enlightenment stems from new understandings and practices that have taken hold in the social sector and are producing better and measurable results against a range of problems.

And near the top of the agenda again is China, where the Administration should continue pressing for measurable progress against end-user software theft.