Sentence examples for a major yardstick of 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.

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.

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.

Exhaustion has become a yardstick of measuring a meaningful life.

A p/e ratio provides a crude yardstick of investor optimism.

Furthermore, ASA grade can be a poor yardstick of general health.

And more than a few reflect the unstinting businessman: "Be a yardstick of quality.

As a yardstick of presidential accomplishment, the "First 100 Days" is surely a faulty measure.

He once said: Be a yardstick of quality.