Sentence examples for actual yardstick from inspiring English sources

An actual yardstick sitting in front of you would oscillate in its length by around 0.000000000000001 millimeters, which is far smaller even than the diameter of a proton.

MIT researchers refine yardstick for measuring schools and teachers.

Forbes: Can you briefly outline some of the actual hard-nosed yardsticks, you might say, that Acumen Fund uses that is not just philanthropy but, even though it's patient capital, you have things that determine this is going to work, this isn't going to work timeframe?

They denounced proposals to use publicly owned electric production facilities as a "yardstick" to measure the actual cost of producing electricity and thus to determine whether private power companies were overcharging their customers.

We may maintain our faith-based vision and mission statements, but the actual work we do is largely shaped by the yardsticks of log-frames, planning, monitoring and evaluation schemes, and results-based management techniques established by this hierarchy.

The yardstick of P3 progressivism must be based upon actual practice.

This is an illuminating profile of Henrietta Leavitt (1868-1921), tHarvard College Observatoryory assistant who discovered a direct correlation between the variable and actual brightness of certain stars, enabling astronomers to use those stars as cosmic yardsticks.

An opter, however, broods over "the person one did not marry, the country one did not emigrate to, the career one did not pursue," seeing, in the "shadow presence" implied by the rejected option, "a yardstick" by which she might evaluate "the worth, success or meaning" of her actual life.

The yardstick.

Our yardstick?

A new readability yardstick.