This gives them a reference point, without making you look like a self-obsessed megalomaniac.
The findings provide a reference point for conservation efforts and estimates of extinction rates, the researchers say.
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We had to go to court as a reference point but the administration has now been rubber-stamped.
As a reference point, his next highest estimate of smartphone sales was with Huawei, at 47.9 million sales.
There's the range of FTSE numbers, for instance, which are a reference point for a lot of contracts.
Those lenders are able to look back at consumer behaviour over several economic cycles for a reference point.
As a reference point, He anticipates that Samsung will sell 8.4 million tablets and Amazon will sell 10.7 million.
The electrostatic headphones combined with a companion all-valve amp are what many consider to be a reference point in hi-fi.
The bands were used to draw up a reference point of 100 which was the "median" achievement of all the students.
"Any accomplishment was important only as a reference point for future improvement, not as a pleasurable memory to dwell on, " he writes.
Think about the crowd watching a tennis match for a reference point.
This will provide a reference point from which changes can be measured.
Knowing what a field looked like, day by day, during a year when it produced 180 bushels per acre or 20% less than that, gives the software a reference point.
As a reference point, the U.S. might use the standard of the British, who now seem chipper enough about troubled southern Iraq to begin drawing down their forces there.
They are believed to use the position of the sun as a reference point and can compensate for its movement across the sky when calculating the route they need to return home.
She said a new computer decision support system was due to be introduced nationally in the next few months, which would act as a reference point for NHS Direct sites and GP co-ops.
It is hoped it will constitute a reference point for policy makers at the local level, as well a basis for the exchange of knowledge between researchers, city professionals and local authorities on developing inclusive cities.
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Shakespeare continues to be a reference point.
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Though Surface is clearly a tablet device, Sinofsky pointed out that the process of developing Windows 8 (on which Surface's Windows RT operating system is based) started in the summer of 2009, when there was no Apple iPad as a reference point (though it remains unclear if Microsoft began working on its tablet at that time).
In fact, Spain may a better reference point for Roussillon than France.
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And even as the majority staff chooses to rewrite the Starr referral, they, as we, has a ready reference point which they have apparently rejected.
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In response the British Bankers' Association (BBA) started publishing LIBOR rates in 1986 and they quickly became a vital reference point for the pricing of financial instruments.
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The United States provides a good reference point.
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At all times important information, such as driving directions and the name of a song or radio station is kept at the top of the screen so the driver always has a single reference point.
Now, perhaps, the memory of his life can serve as a light for others, as a point of reference on our horizons.
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The only hub in that neck of the woods is Baumgarten (Austria), a pretty illiquid market, and not one that acts as a serious price reference point for CEE or South East European states.
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As a point of reference the US has about 250 retail stores while China has 11.
As a point of reference, we also have INTC rated Fairly Valued right now as well.
It is increasingly accepted that the Holocaust has become a global point of reference for mass violence.
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