The phrase "as its yardstick" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a standard or measure by which something is evaluated or compared.
Example: "The company uses customer satisfaction as its yardstick for success."
Alternatives: "as its benchmark" or "as its standard".
It used as its yardstick the so-called "Carrington storm" of September 1859.
In assembling the list, the research group uses four measures of patent activity as its yardstick of innovation.
The O.E.C.D.'s report examined relative poverty, using as its yardstick the percentage of each country's population earning less than half of that country's median wage.
Unlike many earlier environmental assessments that have compiled trends for losses of forests, reefs and other wild places, this one focused on how such losses directly affected human welfare, using as its yardstick trends in "ecosystem services" rather than simply lost species or acreage.
The reforms are in line with recommendations incorporated in a report by British-based law firm DLA Piper that was commissioned by Qatar and has been adopted by FIFA as its yardstick for assessing Qatari progress in addressing labour issues.
In a world where blackness is very often attacked as the very antithesis of all that is beautiful, this newly formed digital community affirmed and uplifted an unapologetically black aesthetic as its own yardstick.
At one end was the language of written communication and Islamic scholarship, which regarded the language of the Qurʾān as its inimitable yardstick; from this belief developed the later critical doctrine of iʿjāz al-Qurʾān (the "inimitability of the Qurʾān"), which resulted in a written (literary) language that has undergone remarkably little change over the centuries.
Industrial results are the crucial yardstick for G.E. now as its finance unit is pared back.
Legally the pact applies only in countries that ratify it, but its uses as a yardstick may be broader.
He said it would be more than $1 billion, but would not comment on whether it would exceed $10 billion, the amount Brazil has named as a yardstick for its contribution.
And, like it or not, many in the West take Turkey's attitude to Israel as a yardstick of its broader intentions.
