Sentence examples for a range of yardsticks from inspiring English sources

Economists at Goldman Sachs, using a similar approach, reach a similar conclusion: the yuan is 10% too cheap.Using a range of yardsticks, the International Monetary Fund reckons, like the BEER studies, that it is hard to find strong evidence that the yuan is much undervalued.

Even these national values may be an unreliable yardstick – cultural homogeneity may be undermined by a range of "subculture groups" or the existence of "socially dominant and inferior" cultures (Mead, 2005:48).

And these distance measurements are sparking the excitement, by allowing astronomers to calibrate a longer range cosmic yardstick based on Cepheid variables.

Now it is a kind of yardstick for measuring ego.

Recent changes have reduced tax rate disparities between cigarette tax tiers and raised rates for all tiers, but Indonesia remains a low tax country within the ASEAN region, and excise rates fall below the World Bank's yardstick of two-thirds to four-fifths of retail price, a range that typifies countries with strong tobacco control efforts and falling consumption [ 4].

The range of establishments for drinking provides a yardstick just as accurate, and on Frederick Douglass Boulevard, between 112th and 121st streets, most of the tipsy trends of the moment are now represented.

In other words, it is hopelessly flawed as a yardstick of human welfare.

These include diverse population age ranges and different yardsticks of adequate intake such as the proportion of people with intakes below the recommended nutrient intake, estimated average requirement (EAR) or dietary reference value.

There are a couple of different yardsticks being used".

He compares his new method to using a tape measure instead of a yardstick to measure a hallway.

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