Sentence examples for a yardstick of our from inspiring English sources

It provides a yardstick of our knowledge base, it provides guidance in setting research priorities, and it provides an important tool for prevention of cancer.

Somehow, Keats's "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness" is a crueler yardstick of our place in the world than the fizzy fakery of New Year's Day.

Exhaustion has become a yardstick of measuring a meaningful life.

He once said: Be a yardstick of quality.

It also illustrates the limitations of growth as a yardstick of economic progress.

And more than a few reflect the unstinting businessman: "Be a yardstick of quality.

To Russians, America is a yardstick of their own place in the world.

Value-at-risk is a yardstick of the amount of losses that could be experienced in one trading day.

"For some people, what animals do is a yardstick of what is and isn't natural," Mr. Vasey said.

The gross margin, a yardstick of profitability, widened from 41.6percentt in the fourth quarter, an Ericsson spokeswoman, Aase Lindskog, said.

The statistics are more important as a yardstick of progress than as a precise measure of deaths.