Sentence examples for absolute yardstick from inspiring English sources
An ill-advised acquisition, for instance, may boost earnings per share even as it causes the share price to fall.Lastly, moving from measuring a company's performance against its rivals to using an absolute yardstick breaks the link between exceptional performance and exceptional reward.
Although the number of VC deals point to a more "absolute" yardstick of investor interest in a metropolitan region, the dollar volume represented by those deals often draws a starker comparison between ecosystems.
By the absolute nearest yardstick, these men are doing well.
Yet, argued Goldthorpe, the crucial yardstick was not absolute but relative social mobility – that is, the relative life chances of working-class children compared with other children – and this, he stressed, revealed a very different story about what had been really happening (or not happening) in Britain since the war.
The reports led the way to what may fairly be described as a revolution in documenting development.The 1990 WDR, for example, introduced what has now become the universal yardstick for measuring absolute poverty: income of a dollar a day or less.
By this yardstick 969m people suffered from absolute poverty in 2004, a drop of over 270m since 1990.
Delivery is a more absolute measure, especially if you use their own yardstick to beat them with.
But absolute quiet has proved elusive on the ground and unforgiving as a political yardstick.
Fergie's commitment to absolute value means that he doesn't pay much attention to relative price-to-earnings multiples or other yardsticks.
A better yardstick is education.
