Sentence examples for mere rating from inspiring English sources

This program has provided an unusually rich practical application, showing how portfolio assessment changes assessment from a mere rating of limited and often costly tests to a continuous, integrated, and appropriate activity directly related to learning itself, while at the same time, developing the data about student.

Even a mere rating downgrade of Ukraine a few days ago had a shocking effect on financial markets in Emerging Europe--and even in the E.U.

The use of identical questionnaires before and after the training enabled a comparison of perceived knowledge change beyond the mere rating of perceived gain of knowledge that a single post invention assessment would yield.

So why did Mr. Squali initiate coverage of eBay last week with a mere "neutral" rating, when many analysts still rate it a "buy?" "The idea is 'Love the company, not the stock,' " he said.

At least part of the answer lies in the bunched live ratings, which show England's top five – the medal trio plus Michael Adams and Matthew Sadler – covered by a mere 15 rating points between Howell 2,701 at world No 39 and McShane 2,686 at world No 54.

Equipment spending edged up at a mere 1percentt rate while factory and office construction contracted at a 6.5percentt annual rate.

Back in April, a mere 1percentt rated him excellent.

There is no way I buy these theories associating talent to mere work-rate.

In a Los Angeles Times Magazine article in 1991, Mr. Stephens, the journalism professor, wrote: "He gave literature professors a special gift: a chance to confront -- not as mere second-rate philosophers, not as mere interpreters of novelists, but as full-fledged explorers in their own right -- the most profound paradoxes of Western thought".

Clearly, then, mere tax rates don't reveal a country's tax climate.

Not at this sleepy outfit, whose earnings have inched ahead at a mere 3% rate over the past decade.