| Delphi was no longer the navel of the Greek world, acknowledged point of reference for the competing states. |
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| Leda Cosmides and John Tooby have produced an excellent primer on the subject so we will use that as a point of reference throughout this post. |
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| The result is a new point of reference for the two estranged siblings of the subcontinent to tell stories about each other. |
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| Further, he said, this provided a point of reference for discussing any unresolved questions, if not actually resolving them. |
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| Since all of our experiences involve finite objects, we lack a point of reference for dealing with the infinite. |
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| That was his political touchstone, his point of reference, the rock upon which he built everything else. |
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| According to Cameron, Sun Mircosystems provided a useful point of reference in the area of industry partnerships. |
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| The car's excellent handling and sportiveness make it a point of reference in its category. |
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| The first reading of almost any survey job should be a backsight onto a fixed point of reference, usually a benchmark of some sort. |
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| Recording and arranging data will help ingrain it in your memory, and gives you a point of reference in case you do forget. |
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| The sick bay represents a point of reference for health in the mission, and it also serves the remote villages in the neighbourhood. |
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| With no definitive mark to provide a point of reference, an operator's judgement of up or down becomes subjective and prone to error. |
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| It is also the point of reference for a spatial politics that guides our differentiation between interiority and exteriority, immediate environment and wider culture. |
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| This kind of Fordism may never have existed but it does provide a point of reference for thinking about forms of capitalism whose contradictions are manageable. |
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| And if Dominic is a point of reference, he is one because and in as much as he was a follower of Jesus and enamoured of his cause. |
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| But its point of reference is a media and political system heavily slanted towards economic elites and conservative ideas. |
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| Thanks to its unique position as an independent fund administrator, EFA has rapidly become a point of reference in this field. |
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| It is born to be a point of reference for anyone who is faced with this unfortunate time. |
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| Reports do matter, and a good report can serve as a lasting point of reference. |
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| It serves as a point of reference for all staff and encapsulates the guiding spirit of the Manutan Group. |
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| Therefore the scenario cannot be used as a point of reference for the private market investor test. |
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| He became a point of reference in the field as a teacher, speaker and commentator for the print media. |
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| Symphorien reminded us that, in order to do this we need a spirituality that serves us as a point of reference. |
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| Europe must be a point of reference in the world of the great values that it has always promoted, such as tolerance, human dignity and dialogue. |
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| We aim to become the first point of reference for our clients, partners and staff. |
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| The first group includes all applicants, and it is used as a point of reference. |
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| Even if these rates are based on limited data, activity level indicators provide a general point of reference on transportation safety. |
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| My first point of reference is to reaffirm my trust in multilateral action and my mistrust in unilateral initiatives. |
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| It also provides a point of reference or benchmark against which to measure activities undertaken under the treaty. |
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| Because there were services generally available from a variety of organizations, many wanted one point of reference. |
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| The audit program was used as a point of reference to compare the audited Offices and as a means of standardizing the audit methods. |
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| To act as the point of reference for the public transort sector and a centre of knowledge on past and current developments and future trends. |
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| I agree with you that retreading the 2000 election is something that has been discussed ad nauseam, however it gives his story a point of reference. |
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| Young Americans today have no point of reference in their lived experience that tells them that collective action can change what is seemingly unchangeable. |
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| To add certainty to these movements, the officers used the cables of the RENFE catenary and the mountains in the background as a point of reference. |
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| He further stated that the positive experiences of integration of noncitizens in Latvia could be a useful point of reference for the development of models of refugee integration in other regions of the world. |
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| As a consequence, output will become the decisive point of reference in evaluations of the school system and in measures for its improvement and further development. |
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| This type of structure can also act as a catalyst and point of reference for the other services and as general headquarters in the battle against domestic violence. |
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| That is understandable: we all need a point of reference to work from. |
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| The bill will at least provide us with a point of reference against which to compare the existing relationships between the employer, the government and the unions. |
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| It will henceforth be the point of reference for all acts of the Parliament which have a direct or indirect bearing on the lives of citizens throughout the Union. |
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| It would give disarmament advocates-on the non-governmental as well as the governmental sidesomething to work with, a point of reference and food for thought. |
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| The Placa de Catalunya is a handy point of reference. |
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| As a point of reference, there are about 13,000 board feet of framing lumber in an average house, and 7,000 board feet of plywood. |
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| Nevertheless it uses them as a point of reference for its own purchases. |
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| Nor are they an appreciated point of reference. |
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| The ileocecal valve can be used as a point of reference to identify the base of the appendix. |
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| Firstly, people do not like to be disappointed, i.e. to suffer consequences that leave them less well off compared with a given point of reference. |
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| The point of reference used to zero the system is the external auditory meatus or the outer canthus of the eye. |
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| Until the Quiet Revolution, the sharing of powers set out in the BNAA would serve as a point of reference for the autonomist demands of French-Canadian nationalists. |
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| It is about a deep, almost irresistible, attraction towards God, of a spiritual experience in which God is Absolute and in which our being's ultimate point of reference is in Him. |
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| It also constituted a sound legal point of reference for the codification of rules dealing with the important issue of nationality of natural persons in relation to the succession of States. |
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| While historically the ius commune became a secure point of reference in continental European legal systems, in England it was not a point of reference at all. |
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| As a point of reference, each chapter on a taxon includes a table summarizing the animals' discovery, classification, geographic and stratigraphic occurrences, and ages. |
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| It is a question that can only be formulated in terms of an asker, a point of reference, and an intender and that consequently can be intelligible only in human terms. |
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