Using the yardstick of imports and exports as a proportion of GDP, they are more integrated into the global economy than OECD (ie, rich) countries are (51% versus 43% in 1999-2001).
We prefer to entrust the definition of our way of relating with reality to the hypothetic-dubitative triangulations of the conditional and the subjunctive, mainly because we tend to measure the reliability of what is apparent by using the yardstick of its paradigmatic 'should be'.
However, using the yardstick that any intervention whose ICER is in excess of three times the per capita GNP is not cost effective, then adding any of the screening programmes to treatment will not be considered as being cost effective.
Measure your height in inches using the yardstick or measuring tape.
If a 30% cut was deemed satisfactory in Goodwin's case (and, note, he took a £2.6m tax-free lump sum before adjustment), it is reasonable to use the same yardstick.
Having kept faith with a large proportion of the squad that won Telford promotion, Watson has been patient, preferring to use the standard managerial yardstick of not making any assessment until 10 matches have been played.
I know how seductive it is to use the celebrity-culture yardstick to measure the smallness of our lives.
After a while she said, "But what about the Royal Ballet?" To which came the reply: "That's the company we use as the yardstick by which we measure others".
"Principals Younger and Freer, but Raise Doubts in the Schools" ("Controlling Interests" series, front page, May 26) used the wrong yardstick to measure the success of the New York City Leadership Academy, a nonprofit entity whose board I head.
These losses make it impossible to compare Twitter's IPO with others using the traditional yardstick of a price-earnings ratio.Instead, analysts often look at another measure: the ratio of a firm's proposed market capitalisation at IPO to the past 12 months' sales.
