Sentence examples for as a common yardstick from inspiring English sources

The exam acts as a "common yardstick," designed to gauge the ability of students across the country and over time.

Such loans blend funds provided by several banks; a common yardstick for the cost of cash was needed.

A common yardstick is the Gini coefficient, which runs from 0 (everyone has the same income) to 1 (one person has all the income).

In February 2001, Equity Office said it expected the Spieker acquisition to add 10 cents a share to its annual funds from operations, a common yardstick of REIT earnings.

Spreads on credit default swaps — a common yardstick for whether a country's government is in danger of default — continue to signal potential trouble for Ireland, Italy and Greece.

His goal is to create a common yardstick for gauging the interplay of biological and cultural diversity.

And now that we have a common yardstick by which to measure, we know we're doing great based on an apples-to-apples comparison.

Shim writes, "Placed's goal continues to be the adoption of a common yardstick that can measure the offline effectiveness of advertising across multiple platforms and publishers".

What is required is a common yardstick.

(H2) The rate of adaptation continues at the initial rapid pace, and the apparent deceleration is an artifact of using the ancestor as the common yardstick to measure adaptation.

The primary benefit cited for the SAT is that it provides a common national yardstick.