Sentence examples for sensitive barometer from inspiring English sources

Ad spending is considered a sensitive barometer of the economy, particularly the willingness of consumers to continue shopping as enthusiastically as they have.

Owned by its active members, this cooperative, home to photojournalists like Henri Cartier-Bresson, David (Chim) Seymour and Robert Capa, has been a sensitive barometer of the world's political and social climate.

In many areas witchcraft-eradication movements became a sensitive barometer of social distress: in 1933 34, for example, amid worldwide depression, drought, and locusts, a cult offering adherents a medicine called mchape that would deliver them from witchcraft swept central Nyasaland and eastern Northern Rhodesia.

The most sensitive barometer of market mistakes is gold.

M.B.A. students at the fancier diploma mills are a sensitive barometer of where the big money is.

Gold, the most sensitive barometer of monetary well-being, soared to $425 an ounce; its average price for the past decade has been around $330.

"The poles are very sensitive barometers of warming, and what we're looking at here on the Antarctic Peninsula is an entire ecosystem that is changing," Fraser said.

The German, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, and Austrian photographers gathered here were among the period's most sensitive barometers of change, but they aren't exactly household names, and some of the most interesting — Stanislaw Witkiewicz, Jaromír Funke, Jindrích Styrský — were dead before the war was over.

These issues serve as sensitive barometers of a countrys development and wellbeing and as evidence of its priorities and values.

These issues lie at the heart of human progress, serving as sensitive barometers of a countrys development and well-being and telling evidence of its priorities and values.

These issues serve as sensitive barometers of a country's development and wellbeing and as evidence of its priorities and values.