Using a combination of sensors from the phone -- including phone usage, audio, Wi-Fi and location data -- the app could tell where the student was, their physical activity level (walking, running, sitting, standing) and how much they were sleeping.
The not-so-silly questions at the heart of banning pronouns or peeing standing up is how much freedom we want to sacrifice for the sake of equality, and whether true equality is possible between groups who are different.
Be careful what you're standing on and how much noise it makes.
The game's primary theme, beyond the repercussions that it will have in the standings, is how much the Giants' defense has changed since the last time they played Dallas.
You can judge a person's clout — his or her social and political standing — by witnessing how much racket he or she must regularly endure.
It reflects a party that seems secure in its political standing, and just how much the political landscape has changed since President Bush was re-elected.
I have a keen interest in the long-standing debate on how much anxiety is genetic versus environmental: "You'll have your eye out with that," was my father's favourite phrase.
Here is the gist: an Alabama millionaire named Shaun McCutcheon is challenging a long-standing law on how much money individual donors can give directly to candidates and party committees.
Getting that bike was a big step for me, and you have no idea how much my standing went up at school when everyone found out I'd got a bike for Christmas rather than a normal present.
Last year, on Grantland, Lane Brown brilliantly analyzed the damage certain actors have done to their Oscar standing, explicitly quantifying just how much their subsequent performances either burnished or tarnished their Academy Award.
