Sentence examples for accurate yardstick from inspiring English sources

Accordingly, securities analysts have come to view cash flow information as a more accurate yardstick for gauging debt and dividend-paying ability.

Because french fries targeted Asia's new middle class, and the growth of the middle class is an important measure of prosperity, fries are a surprisingly accurate yardstick of economic health.

Closer studies could also give astronomers their most accurate yardstick yet for gauging the age of the cosmos, according to a study presented here on 6 November at a divisional meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

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We believe that investments in national and economic development should use the growth of children as the best and most accurate yardstick -- a human yardstick -- to measure success.

More accurate yardsticks for business investment than the headline orders series, are the trend series for core orders and shipments.

The range of establishments for drinking provides a yardstick just as accurate, and on Frederick Douglass Boulevard, between 112th and 121st streets, most of the tipsy trends of the moment are now represented.

Revised budgets are more accurate, since they embody the best knowledge available, but revision makes a budget a rubber yardstick that cannot accurately measure performance or evaluate management.

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