Sentence examples for principal measuring from inspiring English sources

Unlike the July report, the new study compared the scores on the national test with student performance on the standardized Texas exam, which serves as Texas' principal measuring stick for academic progress.

We use MSA unemployment, averaged of over 3 months (to reduce measurement error), as our principal measure of the business cycle.13 In work not shown, the use of a lagged unemployment measure produced results similar to those shown.

The principal measure to avoid clinically important hypoglycaemia will be hourly measurement of BG when insulin is first administered.

Its principal measures had been briefed beforehand, leaving people to digest the "pasty tax".

"We believe that there can be agreement on the principal measures," he said.

As a result, the principal measures of economic integration, cross-border flows of goods and capital, showed no advance last year.

But for NBC, the big story was the appeal to the young adult viewers it uses as its principal measure of success.

The principal measures that Obama had taken — implementing the stimulus package, rescuing the banks, restructuring the automakers — had begun to stabilize the economy.

Profits became the principal measure of managerial success, and bonuses based on profits had an appreciable effect on managers' and workers' incomes.

I learnt a lot from Lewis Hyde's The Gift (Canongate £15), a study of how artists are evaluated in societies like our own, where a high income is taken as the principal measure of success.

Tisdall recalled him as "a slightly self-effacing figure, not given to self-promotion or self-advertisement in a media world where willingness to blow one's own trumpet became, increasingly, the principal measure of individual worth.