Sentence examples for as a yardstick for from inspiring English sources

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

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.

And it could serve as a yardstick for comparing the performance of private plans and for testing innovative coverage schemes.

It is desirable to develop reference energy signatures in relation to different characteristics of building cooling load as a yardstick for the minimum requirement of chiller performance.

As far as Red River Rivalry games go, this one could serve as a yardstick for the disparity in the programs right now.

Predicting that total expense ratios will become as important a yardstick for European investors as they have for Americans, Werdmlder adds: "Knowing only the management fee of your fund is like knowing only the brand name of the front wheel of your bike".

We only include it to serve as an yardstick for the four statistical methods.

The prime minister should also stop promising to amend the EU's treaties before 2017, as though this were a yardstick for measuring his seriousness: there is neither the time for that nor the willingness in Europe to enter into what would be an arduous procedure.

Why should competing against men — "pushing the envelope," as Griner called it — be a yardstick for her when the question people should be asking is: how will she fare next summer in the W.N.B.A. against the likes of Tina Charles and Sylvia Fowles?

Now known as the Astronomical Unit, this distance is a yardstick for measuring the solar system.