Sentence examples for use to gauge a from inspiring English sources

Without administering an impromptu IQ test, there are certain clues you can use to gauge a person's relative intelligence.

Regulators are applying a short list of criteria based on a secret ratings system they use to gauge a financial institution's health.

Free cash flow is gaining in popularity as a tool investors can use to gauge a company's relative value.

The researchers, from UC Berkeley, UC Davis and USC, found that other measures that physicians use to gauge a patient's risk of heart attack or stroke--triglycerides and total cholesterol--had no clear relationship to amyloid plaques in the brain. .

"The second kind of assessment -- collecting data that will be used to gauge a program's effectiveness -- is becoming more common," she says.

The baseball statistic often used to gauge a catcher's effectiveness with regard to pitching is known as catcher's earned run average.

In its continuing quest to improve its return on equity, a measure used to gauge a firm's efficiency in deploying its capital, Merrill repurchased 17.8 million shares during the quarter, completing the firm's $2 billion buyback plan.

The figure represents a 23 percent increase in what banks hold in reserve and is likely to reduce the banks' return on equity, a critical figure used to gauge a firm's profitability, Fitch said.

And return on equity - a critical figure used to gauge a firm's profitability - dipped into the single digits for many firms, a far cry from the 20 percent and 30 percent figures common in the precrisis era.

Body mass assessments can be used to gauge a player's sweat loss following a workout.

Sales at stores open at least a year, which retailers use to gauge demand, rose an average of 4.3 percent last month compared with March 2011 at the 20 stores tracked by Thomson Reuters.