An important measure of progress is that business leaders are beginning to feel more confident.
And yet, by at least one important measure, market capitalization, that's where it belongs.
Add to that performance, perhaps the most important measure, and it is near the top.
The important measure of success is the internal quantum efficiency, which shows just how good an LED is at making light.
Now, certification can be an important measure of the quality of the teacher, and obviously we want teachers to be well qualified.
Consistency is an important measure of how cool you are, in effect, and we all know that the cool kids tend to win.
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This is an important measure of our economy as a whole, one that tells us how much we are producing and how much businesses and families are earning.
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WomenCertified this month identified a list of dealerships that performed well with female respondents on customer satisfaction surveys, including the all-important measure whether they would recommend the dealership to others.
When the news was announced, finance minister Amado Boudou - who has since become vice president - told the BBC it was "an important measure to combat tax evasion and money laundering".
Critics say the arrangements can provide political payoffs and cede an important measure of discretion to private lawyers who may pursue a case with little merit because it has the potential for a rich settlement.
Same-store sales growth is an important measure to gauge the performance of a restaurant chain since it includes only the restaurants opened for at least a year and excludes the newly opened (and closed) restaurants, sales of which might be unusually low or high.
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"Full searching is an important security measure against the smuggling of dangerous items into Wetherby, " a Prison Service spokesman said.
Because each and every one of you made a decision that at a moment of such urgency, it was less important to measure what the polls said than to measure what was right.
Asking people how important they are is not the best measure of how important they really are.
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Significantly, an important Delta revenue measure rose last month.
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The federal funds rate is considered by most as the single instrument of monetary policy, now that everyone seems to have forgotten about money growth as a more important instrument and measure.
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"The concept is a good one, but it's important not to measure every widget, because the numbers aren't going to tell you the whole story, " said Cliff Rossi, a former Citigroup risk officer who is now a Tyser Teaching Fellow at the Robert H.
But this version differed in an important way from the measure passed by the Senate just a few days earlier.
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The exercise of thinking through and building the model is very important in helping you measure success and identify risks.
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It was recommended that school safety plan should be firmly adopted as an important disaster risk reduction measure in order to keep the children and community safe in case of floods, earthquake, tsunami and other natural disasters.
Taveras sued in New Jersey, rather than Nevada, underlining an important difference in how defendants measure litigation risk in certain venues.
The percentage of pupils getting five good GCSEs is particularly important because it is the measure by which secondary schools are judged.
The department also quotes research from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the United States which has argued that good teaching is vital to pupil achievement - and as such it is important to be able to measure what represents effective teaching.
The Real Dow is important, because it is a measure of the impetus for productive investment.
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Correct classification is important because it enables economists to measure the supposed benefits in terms of reduced inflation, for example.
The holiday shopping season is an important time for companies and analysts to measure the spending behavior of consumers.
By any measure, this was an important milestone in Iraqi history.
Carefully evaluating how many a business can safely redeem before launching the deal is just one way, but having a plan to measure the response is equally important.
An alternative, or supplementary, protective measure is to only keep important information -- or a copy of important information -- on a USB flash drive, which you can keep on your person, making it harder for others to steal or damage.
Money is the only way to measure wealth, and a very important tool in judging personal success.
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