Sentence examples for Basic yardstick from inspiring English sources

Lawyers are having trouble defending the most basic yardstick of the legal business — the billable hour.

I try to have a basic yardstick for deciding policy: Who is this benefiting and at what cost?

It measured two basic yardsticks: a government restrictions index, and a social hostilities index.

Using basic yardsticks, that measures out to 1.5 million fewer jobs.

He has spent decades working with the World Bank in creating basic yardsticks for measuring global poverty and with the Gallup Organization in creating survey-based measures of well-being.

Fixated on the relative status of different social groups, "Inventing America" ignores basic yardsticks that show that, on average, American living standards have risen at least eightfold and that Americans now live one-third longer than in the mid-19th century.

With the crudest of telescopes, an imperfect timepiece, and the earlier calculations of Kepler, he confirmed the notion of a clockwork solar system and used the transit to make a very rough estimate of that most basic astronomical yardstick, the radius of the Earth's orbit around the Sun.

Discovering and showing important art and artists serve as basic missions and yardsticks for success.

For developing and analyzing an evaluation method a framework of six basic components (target, evaluation criteria, yardstick, data-gathering techniques, synthesis techniques, and evaluation process) can be applied.

Helped by a rally among financials and basic materials, the blue-chip yardstick reached a high of 9970 before ending the day at 9959, 0.83% higher than Friday's close.

4. At micro level (community):  Having 86% of CFCs still functioning at varying degrees two years after the last evaluation year with 59% of communities still having at least one social activity and/or a self-managed basic service is a good yardstick for CFCI sustainability.