Sentence examples for a yardstick for selection from inspiring English sources

The summer signing of Bellamy and Jermaine Pennant, neither of them renowned for a spotless character, raised eyebrows but being well behaved has rarely been a yardstick for selection at Liverpool in recent years.

"His return gives me hope but once again my club performance will be the yardstick for selection," Fofana said.

"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.

He thinks measuring biodiversity is a yardstick for how society is doing.

First, it is necessary to establish a 'standard of need,' a yardstick for measuring who is eligible for public assistance.

It is utterly wrong to regard participation in air strikes as a yardstick for international commitment".