Sentence examples for measuring it against from inspiring English sources

PC Week benchmarked the PowerBook 100, measuring it against its predecessor, the Macintosh Portable.

Canada has been using current data and measuring it against old projections.

When El Mundo Deportivo called it a Super Manita, everyone in Catalunya knew what they were measuring it against.

It is widely thought that music critics of some experience -- if not simply jaded -- are all too ready to dismiss a new performance, measuring it against one from the golden past.

But it gets a little tricky when we want to describe the size of the incumbent party's convention bounce, since it's not clear what baseline we should be measuring it against.

Those who argue that the EU needs a foreign policy because small and medium-sized countries can exert influence only by banding together are also, implicitly, measuring it against bigger powers.But there are more plausible objectives to play for than trying, ineffectually, to set up a rival pole to America.

They considered its rhetoric, analyzed its political intent, measured it against the earlier campaign speeches.

Bloomberg used data from a housing index by international property consultancy Knight Frank LLP and measured it against national income figures from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to create its tally of most expensive cities.

In determining whether the proposed procedure is unconstitutional, we must measure it against a lawful electrocution.

One reader spoke of being able to measure it against her own memories.

But measure it against the threat that Israel feels from Hizbullah and it may not be.