Sentence examples for accepted yardstick of from inspiring English sources

That figure, which has become a widely accepted yardstick of abject deprivation, was first derived by taking an average of the poverty lines the minimum income needed to satisfy basic needs of 15 of the world's poorest countries.It is also important to note that the World Bank has built some slack into its target.

Publication of new results is the widely accepted yardstick for the agency's ability to spot scientifically worthy ideas.

Miss S. is indulgent toward psychologists, some of whom have assured her that what she needs to put her work on scientific footingis a frame of reference in which a graphological evaluation of a personality could be measured against some more generally accepted yardstick.

Intraoperatively the Garden alignment index was used as a yardstick of acceptable reduction.

Only by the warped yardstick of these wacky days.

Exhaustion has become a yardstick of measuring a meaningful life.

He once said: Be a yardstick of quality.

Classicism measures the present by the yardstick of the past.

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

Measured by the yardstick of the amounts paid for Modigliani and Cézanne, it is laughably low.

By the yardstick of Academy membership, he's wickedly au courant, verging on edgy.