Sentence examples for as an yardstick from inspiring English sources

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

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.

Mostly, anchors used Mr. Bush as a yardstick to measure Mr. Obama's better handling of the day.

The statistics are more important as a yardstick of progress than as a precise measure of deaths.

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.