The wine trade regards the contest as a reliable index of New York regional development, styles, quality and leadership.
But, more and more, big investors are treating excess compensation as a reliable index that something serious may be wrong.
(There's no absolutely reliable index here, but the artists on the superb Type label, like Yellow Swans, are closer to this end).
Alice H. Lichtenstein, a professor of nutrition science and policy at Tufts University, said the Hegsted equation was still used and remained a "very reliable index, and an elegant and not overly complicated approach" to the study of serum cholesterol.
Mr. Barth, who has made a series of fine, if overlooked, records since leaving Terence Blanchard's group a decade ago, is a reliable index of what the best of modern, mainstream jazz piano playing sounds like.
Sometimes, yes, the best picture prize would actually go to the best picture, but more often the academy's neglect of a film was a reliable index of its merit.
Many in the wine trade consider the contest, sponsored by the New York Wine and Grape Foundation, a trade association in the Finger Lakes, the only comprehensive, reliable index to regional development, styles and quality.
It's that what passes for interesting has been shorn of a reliable index in the move toward social filtering.
Introduction: Aortic end-systolic pressure (ESP) is considered as a reliable index of left ventricular afterload.
Urine albumin creatinine ratio (UACR) is a reliable index of urinary albumin excretion.
Electrical conductivity is a useful and reliable index for the measurement of water salinity or total dissolved solids in water.
