Sentence examples for a yardstick for determining from inspiring English sources

As a yardstick for determining whether a fuel economy improvement is worthwhile for a heavy truck, it can be very misleading, the researchers said.

Fortunately there is a way: the "Journal Impact Factor" (JIF), a rating given to academic journals that captures the impact of the publication based on a scientific analysis of citation data; a yardstick for determining the overall influence of a research publication.

Another factor for Shanahan was that Zetterberg was not injured — a longstanding N.H.L. yardstick for determining whether a suspension is warranted.

Since there is no tax or trading system for carbon dioxide in the United States, there is no common yardstick for determining whether the additional amount that consumers would pay for gas is offset by the carbon saved.

It must be the compass that determines our political direction, a yardstick for deciding our policies.

"We need a yardstick for success.

Mechanical precompression stress is a yardstick for the strength and compressibility of soils.

Richard Strauss called for "lots of horns, which are always a yardstick for heroism".

At least the report offers a yardstick for measuring future failures.

The mortgage industry has a yardstick for measuring the size of those profits.

Re-population provides a yardstick for areas whose decline had caused people to move away.