Sentence examples for a single yardstick and from inspiring English sources

But this report clearly reflects a commitment to face facts about America's shortcomings as well as our successes, to measure human rights by a single yardstick, and to practice at home what we preach abroad.

He said the N.A.A.C.P. wanted "to be clear that there's a single yardstick by which civil rights are judged".

But a viable alternative has proved to be elusive, given the desire for a way to measure students against a single yardstick.

Rhee, Klein and their allies, who currently ride high in education, insist that reading and math achievement scores are the single yardstick of success or failure.

The difficulty is partly that there is no single yardstick for measuring progress in those areas.

But the more cars we looked at, the more we realized that no single yardstick applies.

We are deeply concerned that measuring a great diversity of educational traditions and cultures using a single, narrow, biased yardstick could, in the end, do irreparable harm to our schools and our students.

Purchase a yardstick and a pencil.

Use a yardstick and a level to keep the points even.

"The Dmanisi fossils give us a new yardstick, and when you apply that yardstick to the African fossils, a lot of that extra wood in the tree is dead wood.

They judged it by a "drama yardstick" and missed the point.