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Meanings of touchstone in anglès
Synonyms
Examples for "measure"
Examples for "measure"
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However, the measure ran 4 per cent higher than a year earlier.
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However, Steinmeier said the government had not yet decided on the measure.
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Main outcome measure: Cardiac and stroke mortality were our main outcome measures.
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A crisis whose length and consequences no one can measure, said Besson.
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The measure was first introduced into the 2014 EU tobacco products directive.
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I'm not sure this is a particularly good standard for public debate.
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It was standard market practice that went on for years, he said.
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The standard would likely not take effect for several years, Seidman said.
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Objectives: Escherichia coli is the standard water quality indicator for diarrhoea risk.
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However, no significant difference in the patients with standard risk was found.
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Excessive greenhouse gas emissions became a criterion for exclusion four years ago.
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In those days, the main criterion was whether the patient could pay.
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Perceptual decisions require the accumulation of sensory information to a response criterion.
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A senior government source said: We know what companies' investment criteria is.
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Perhaps, however, we need to think about the critical criteria we use.
Usage of touchstone in anglès
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The disengaging of the erotic motive is everything, is the only touchstone.
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The Tories look to our conduct upon this question as the touchstone.
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We have in our own hearts a new touchstone of poetic greatness.
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There could be no better touchstone in such a matter than Butterwell.
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The keen disappointment Edna hides within her domestic tranquility is a touchstone.
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But let the fellow dispute as I do-there'sthe touchstone of learning.
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On Tuesday Novak Djokovic became the touchstone for a selection of grievances.
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The touchstone of the Springs Preserve is the forward-thinking Desert Living Center.
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To be an idol at home, is no assured touchstone of merit.
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At this touchstone rank, fortune, all that go with them, seemed poor.
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Adolf Hitler is always the obvious touchstone for forewarning of a similar future.
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The touchstone of time infallibly separates the false and the true.
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Naturally, the touchstone in us becomes finer and truer the better we are.
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PUE has become the touchstone for measuring data center energy efficiency.
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She seemed to hold in her hand the touchstone of truth.
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The response to this must be the touchstone of their lives.
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Touchstone through the time
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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