Sentence examples for a yardstick for its from inspiring English sources

Yet instead of addressing growing inequality and corruption, the C.P.P. campaigned on the memory of the Khmer Rouge, using the brutal regime as a yardstick for its own achievements, and reasserted the traditional Khmer patronage system.

He said it would be more than $1 billion, but would not comment on whether it would exceed $10 billion, the amount Brazil has named as a yardstick for its contribution.

Thomas knows that the Indiana game could be a yardstick for his club.

The number of ERCs a university has is a huge yardstick for its success.

It has become a yardstick for placing countries in the League of Nations and an index of its political stature.

First, it provides a yardstick for tracking and comparing the stage of different RI initiatives.

But remember: The United States maintained its two-war doctrine more as a yardstick for measuring how much money to allocate to the Pentagon.

But I kind of view it more as a yardstick for how much I've accomplished.

It's become a yardstick for hype and failed promises.

And it could serve as a yardstick for comparing the performance of private plans and for testing innovative coverage schemes.

Going forward, it will be important to develop a yardstick for benchmarking the magnitude of the effects we are observing.