Sentence examples for a yardstick by which from inspiring English sources

Walmsley hopes that the college's culture is a yardstick by which all their activities are judged.

His music is the bedrock of the modern symphonic repertory and a yardstick by which conductors and orchestras are measured.

That is a yardstick by which all subsequent performances must still be judged - and in most cases be found wanting.

I asked a leading Washington observer of the region for a yardstick by which to measure Mr Kerry's success in pushing for a new, American-led peace initiative.

To the extent that statistics are instructive, it is worth examining their figures to provide what could be termed a yardstick by which to gauge Saker's influence.

Perhaps inadvertently this show usefully parses the difference between quality and influence, reveals much about visual culture today and even provides a yardstick by which to gauge your own sophistication.

OkCupid allows users to get a little bit more in depth; not only are there standard categories to fill in (a self-summary, lists of interests and hobbies), there's also a huge selection of user generated questions, the answers to which give you and other users a unique "match percentage", a rudimentary yardstick by which to judge your potential compatibility.

His role in the narrative, though never anthropomorphized, becomes that of an additional character, providing what amounts to a moral yardstick by which the others can be assessed.

Indeed, his final claim is startlingly laudatory: that "Malcolm embodies a definitive yardstick by which all other Americans who aspire to a mantle of leadership should be measured".

But when you go to Europe, there's a different yardstick by which men are measured".

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