For 18 months, we lived in a torturous limbo where regular blood tests became the barometer for my hopes and fears, but not a day went by when I wasn't acutely aware of how blessed I was to have both of my children in my life.
I wanted to use it as a personal barometer to test how far I had come in my life.
Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein said in an interview that he was in favor of more rigorous national standards, but that progress on the state tests remained a meaningful barometer of the school system under his leadership.
It is therefore not surprising that humans have been shown to use additional cues to identify causal dependencies like temporal order [52] and active interventions [47,50,51] for example, by manipulating the barometer and testing whether this has an influence on the probability of a storm occurring.
Speaking in the Élysée courtyard after lunch with the president, Mr. Foster called Mr. Sarkozy's approach to culture "fantastic," and "very refreshing," adding, "I thought there was a great enthusiasm, a sense of passion, of conviction, a belief in the importance of architecture, the way that it's a litmus test, if you like, a barometer for the values of a nation".
If your barometer fails this test, you may need to have it professionally serviced and re-set before you can count on its accuracy.
As Congress considers what, if any, laws to change, Mr. Manchin has become a barometer among his colleagues, testing just how far they might be able to go without angering voters.
Those who underwent a diabetes counseling session after their cancer diagnosis — consisting of two sessions a week for four to six weeks — were more likely to receives tests of hemoglobin A1c levels, a barometer of how well blood sugar has been controlled over time, and to take care of their blood sugar levels.
So, while the grouping is a yearly business vanity test of sorts, it is also a barometer for market opinion on competing firms: who is going up and who is slipping in the eyes of their potential customers.
Tests on donated blood, the most reliable barometer of the epidemic's spread, show that almost 2percentt of the donors were infected in the last 10 days.
