Sentence examples for an important yardstick from inspiring English sources
He argued that the government's inexperience and "perhaps a touch of recklessness" had led Osborne to repeatedly cite the UK's credit rating as such an important yardstick.
Groupon said that the measure - which subtracted its formidable online marketing and acquisition costs from its operating performance - was an important yardstick the company used.
Mr. Duncan said that he considered an institution's completion rate to be such an important yardstick, and that a low graduation rate should be enough to persuade a prospective applicant to look elsewhere.
Covered California on Thursday announced the results of its rate negotiations with Anthem Blue Cross, Kaiser Permanente and other major insurers, an important yardstick for President Obama's Affordable Care Act.
The value of R is thus an important yardstick of resilience in conservation planning.
Furthermore, the relative simplicity of monitoring these deaths provides an important yardstick for gauging the results of actions to prevent and control diabetes.
While the total compensation reported by big banks in their 2011 results may be lower, keep an eye on another, and perhaps more important, yardstick that is likely to increase at some firms: the compensation-to-revenue ratio.
While the total compensation figures reported by big banks in their 2011 results may be lower, keep an eye on another, and perhaps more important, yardstick that is likely to increase at some firms: the compensation-to-revenue ratio.
And there is more room for optimism: sales at stores open at least a year, an important industry yardstick, were up 2.5percentt for the fiscal fourth quarter of 2003, which ended Jan 31.
By another important yardstick, the amount of advertising a site delivers to its visitors, Forbes.com delivered 107.7 million impressions in June, Nielsen reported.
"By the most important yardstick, based on the sales currency of C3 ratings, we're the network leader," Stephen McPherson, the president of ABC Entertainment, said in an e-mail message.
