Sentence examples for narrower measures from inspiring English sources

The left-wing pressure group, Compass, recently published a paper (A New Political Economy) by Hetan Shah and Martin McIvor which argued: "Today's capitalist system, with its focus on maximising shareholder value, has a tendency to bias economic policy away from these wider concepts and towards narrower measures of economic efficiency.

A country's MPI is the product of both the breadth of poverty (the proportion of people whose score is over 33%) and its depth (the average score of the poor).This broader brush paints a different picture of hardship than narrower measures based only on income or consumption.

The poll -- conducted for the coalition Mayors Against Illegal Guns, co-chaired by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino -- suggests that while far-reaching gun-control legislation seems unlikely to pass, some narrower measures may be able to earn bipartisan support.

Some authors have argued that broader measures are better predictors because they have greater reliability than narrower measures, and the variance in outcomes associated with broad factors generalizes across situations [ 69, 70].

But even advancing the narrower measure has vexed Democrats.

The narrower measure is considered to underestimate alcohol-related admissions and the broader measure to overestimate them.

A narrower measure of global money, M1, is currently estimated at about $17 trillion.

A narrower measure omitting transgender people was approved three years ago in the House but died in the Senate.

The narrower measure of people claiming unemployment benefits dropped by more than expected in December, falling by 15,200 to 1.61 million, the biggest drop since early 2007.

On an annual basis, industrial production was down 1.1% in October, while the narrower measure of manufacturing output was down 0.4%.

A narrower measure that offers a clearer view of trends, because it excludes volatile food and energy prices, rose 0.2 percent in June and 2.2 percent over 12 months.