Sentence examples for a yardstick in from inspiring English sources

Mr. Engel, for one, doesn't think that anyone uses meals as a yardstick in choosing an airline.

The failure rate for startups, using a yardstick in which investors lose everything (i.e., all of the company's assets are liquidated), is between thirty and forty per cent, according to Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School.

French red wines served as a yardstick in the study.

Despite being non-justiciable, the Directive Principles act as a check on the State; theorised as a yardstick in the hands of the electorate and the opposition to measure the performance of a government at the time of an election.

They act as a check on the government, theorized as a yardstick in the hands of the people to measure the performance of the government and vote it out of power if it does not fulfill the promises made during the elections.

Sales at Wal-Mart stores open at least a year, a crucial yardstick in retailing, have risen but at a steadily falling rate — from an average of 3.6percentt a month in 2005 to 2.1percentt in 2006 to 1.5percentt so far this year.

Sales at stores open at least a year, a crucial yardstick in retailing, fell 4.2percentt at Sears and 5percentt at Kmart.

Sales at stores open at least a year, a crucial yardstick in retailing, rose just 1.6percentt last month, the slowest growth since October 1995, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers.

Sales at stores open at least a year, a crucial yardstick in retailing, jumped 13.4percentt at Macy's in November, 10.2 percent at Kohl's and 8.7percentt at Nordstrom.

It is a yardstick part in which a lifetime of experience is put to the test, often at an age when energy is on the wane.

The book mostly covers Bush's record as governor, which the authors reminds us is a problematic yardstick in itself because Texas governors have a bully pulpit but not much more.