But is there any objective measure by which the reach of a global e-protest movement can be assessed?
This is a fair point, so we need to find some objective measure that neutralizes all the possible differences.
By any objective measure, we would call them failures, and yet as I said, I am sure Gershwin was all right with that.
By losing more conference games than MSU, Michigan did not have to risk playing Wisconsin, which is clearly a better team by any objective measure.
But by any objective measure (cc: Nate Silver) writing trite phrases on thousands of coffee cups is going to rank quite low in the annals of political persuasion.
If there is no objective measure to guide our decisions, if there are no facts that can be counted among our arguments, the weight of our argument is diminished.
After all, race is not a scientific concept that can be unequivocally confirmed with a DNA test or any other objective measure that could stand up to judicial scrutiny.
While the Japanese yen, Canadian dollar and the euro have risen 33%, 43% and 73% against the dollar since mid-2001, all have registered major declines against the more objective measure, gold.
By any objective measure, Israel's greatest diplomatic challenge for the past three years and two months has been to build an international consensus around the need to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
My point is that he will put forward a series of proposals that, by any objective measure and observation by you and others, are the kinds that have enjoyed bipartisan support in the past.
By any objective measure, they failed that test.
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By any objective measure, that is woefully inadequate.
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Gold is a great predictor of our economic health because as the most constant, objective measure of value in existence, its price is the single best measure of the value of the most important price in the world: the U.S. dollar.
Did Mr. Krugman ever object to the "opinion pieces" of his New York Times colleague Maureen Dowd, whose serial character assassinations of senior U.S. officials would, by any objective measure, be examples of, in his words, "the media establishment joining hands with the lunatic fringe"?
Having monitored the number of utility patents (an inexact but objective measure for innovation) granted by the U.S. Patent and Trade Office to countries during this period, it was fascinating to observe that the number of patents of foreign origin over taking those from the U.S. in 2007 for the first time in history.
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In the UK, the actual 2013 deficit projection meets the Toronto objective when cyclically-adjusted measure is used.
The key difference is that clinical trials are much more rigorous, and as much as possible rely on objective, quantitative analysis to measure improvement, as opposed to field trials, which are more reliant on patients' subjective reactions.
The most objective way I have found to measure this is by comparing the weekly or monthly closing price to the Starc band readings.
Mr Sargeant said the Welsh government is committed to improving the safety of all road users and the facility is another measure towards achieving this objective.
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But it turns out that there are even deep disagreements in the early education literature about how to improve quality, or even how to measure quality in a valid, objective, reliable and fair way.
But the election itself is an objective, factual, result against which we can measure the predictions of the market.
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The education reform movement is hard at work finding good ways to measure success, and determine universal and objective rules for how people should be hired and fired, and figuring out what kinds of certifications should be required, etc.
This has been to Mr Berlusconi's advantage over the years and none of his legal reforms have, as their main objective, the speeding up of justice (although one measure, removing the prosecutions' right to appeal a judgment, will help in some cases).
Most of the studies measure patients' subjective assessment of their sleep improvement instead of objective evidence from a sleep lab, he adds.
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