Sentence examples for a common yardstick from inspiring English sources

Such loans blend funds provided by several banks; a common yardstick for the cost of cash was needed.

Spreads on credit default swaps — a common yardstick for whether a country's government is in danger of default — continue to signal potential trouble for Ireland, Italy and Greece.

A common yardstick is the Gini coefficient, which runs from 0 (everyone has the same income) to 1 (one person has all the income).

Over the decades, 0.7% has been repeatedly re-endorsed at international conferences, becoming a key rallying cry for aid activists and a common yardstick for the generosity of rich countries.

And many admissions officers say the main SAT exam is a common yardstick against which to measure students whose schools may have vastly different criteria for what constitutes an "A" or a "C".

In February 2001, Equity Office said it expected the Spieker acquisition to add 10 cents a share to its annual funds from operations, a common yardstick of REIT earnings.

The primary benefit cited for the SAT is that it provides a common national yardstick.

(H2) The rate of adaptation continues at the initial rapid pace, and the apparent deceleration is an artifact of using the ancestor as the common yardstick to measure adaptation.

That could offset a doubling of CO2 emissions, and doubling is the common yardstick you'll find scientists use to talk about climate sensitivity.

The SAT is the single common yardstick available to benefit both students and colleges.

Another common yardstick was not made available when the Ross School declined to release the graduates' average SAT score.