Sentence examples for a major yardstick from inspiring English sources
Beijing sees the space program as a major yardstick of the country's economic and technological development, and also a means to strengthening the country's image at home and abroad.
For instance, they have long used the number of patients given antiretroviral drugs as a major yardstick of success.
Global surface temperature is the major yardstick used to track how we are changing the climate.
Currently the major yardstick by which postdocs are judged is their publication track record, as there generally are no formal performance appraisals for postdocs.
Major yardsticks of the stock market rose sharply in 1998, although most stocks lagged behind.
For chroniclers of market history, today will be a date to note because of the rare convergence of alltime highs by all of Wall Street's major yardsticks: the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite Index.
Yet it served as a convenient stopping point, a yardstick of the Mississippi's diversity and a major musical signpost, including as it does the likes of B B King, Aretha Franklin and a certain Elvis Aaron Presley.
Perched on spools, they gather around tables fashioned from yardsticks and alphabet blocks to dine alongside a "major infestation," a Who's Who of the mouse world, including the entire chorus of "The Nutcracker".
In this experiment, FFA along with the viscosity of biodiesel was considered as the yardsticks to optimize the procedure as viscosity plays a major role to carry out the functions and the performance of the CI engine.
Within the realm of Arabic literature, the Qurʾān has played a foundational role and continues to serve, much as the Bible does in the history of Western literatures, as the major stylistic yardstick for literary expression in the Arabic language and as a major source of intertextual reference.
