Sentence examples for The only yardstick from inspiring English sources
The only yardstick to this is "are these devices truly helping us...in our critically ill patients".
On the other hand, the iPhone isn't the only yardstick of success.
But popular success shouldn't be the only yardstick by which the Proms are measured.
But political transformation should not be the only yardstick; cultural and social shifts have been set in motion.
As a result we end up relying on the flawed measure of GDP as the only yardstick against which countries - rich and poor - can be measured.
German tactics, by contrast, are highly questionable when seen through the prism of conventional economics - where growth is the only yardstick of success.
But because money and opinion polls are the only yardsticks at the moment, several candidates whose fund-raising is failing, such as Lamar Alexander, a former Tennessee governor, and Dan Quayle, a former vice-president, could drop out if they do poorly in Iowa.
As Richard Layard puts it, happiness is the only true yardstick to measure society's progress and if we truly believe that then we have to demand reform, now.
"Dividends are the only true yardstick of corporate governance," said Stepan Dashevsky, an oil analyst at Aton, an investment bank in Moscow.
As Michela Wrong puts it, the amount of money which it disbursed became "the only solid yardstick of progress, hardly a situation likely to encourage discrimination amongst officials responsible for approving projects".
But the only real yardstick against which his success should be measured is whether he can offer to millions of Italians – mostly female and mostly young – the possibility of contributing to the growth of a society that has been stagnating for two decades.
