Sentence examples for as a yardstick from inspiring English sources

French red wines served as a yardstick in the study.

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

Still, using inequality as a yardstick, he won much of what he had wanted.

It is utterly wrong to regard participation in air strikes as a yardstick for international commitment".

Using achievements in languages as a yardstick is a particularly nasty trick.

Here are 10 questions I will be using as a yardstick.

But I kind of view it more as a yardstick for how much I've accomplished.

In the years since I have used the experience as a yardstick for measuring my own happiness.

Sernovitz stands Manhattan upright as a yardstick, with Harlem as "the heavens" and the Battery deep underground.

Legally the pact applies only in countries that ratify it, but its uses as a yardstick may be broader.

They agreed to let Dr. Dansgaard analyze ice samples, using the yearly snow measurements as a yardstick.