The most telling indicator is most likely to be the fate of one of his closest advisers, Abdollah Nouri.

The company's core earnings, which it considers a more telling indicator of its true profitability, dipped slightly last year to $2.06 a share and are below what they were in 1997.

If shoes remain the most telling sartorial indicator of a man's social station, bags - ever more popular - appear to signal something more profound about the urban man himself.

The most telling indicator of Railfreight's success in the 1980s was the unprecedented turnround in its financial performance.

One of the most telling indicators of the problems faced by Latin markets is a region-wide plunge in trading volume.

This lack of definition is the most telling indicator that research in the area of child abuse is at a very rudimentary level.

Perhaps the most telling indicator of just how early the campaign season has begun is automated phone calls about campaign issues, commonly referred to as robo-calls, which began late last year.

Earlier in the week, the funds rate, widely viewed as the most telling indicator of Fed intentions, traded around 7 percent.

But many experts are arguing that the health issues are far more telling indicators of how deep-rooted the fundamental problems are.

It is perhaps the most telling indicator of the contradictions that threaten to transform television evangelism.