Sentence examples for bad yardstick from inspiring English sources
But the neglected matter of compassionate conservatism is not a bad yardstick either.Back in 2000, George Bush defined himself as a compassionate conservative.
The day peace ran out What he did, and left undone Mystery island Reprints Related items India: Fazed by the ballot boxMar 6th 2003 South-East Asia's economies: If war comes...Mar 6th 2003Yet the economy will still have grown by 4.4%—a snail's pace when compared, as it usually is, with China (especially if the official figures are to be believed), but not bad against most other yardsticks.
Like all films, women's stories also need to be tested against the same yardstick of good cinema or bad.
By any yardstick, these are big numbers.
Generations of students and philosophers have struggled with the paradoxical consequences of Einstein's deceptively simple notion, which underlies all of modern physics and technology, wrestling with clocks that speed up and slow down, yardsticks that contract and expand and bad jokes using the word "relative".
Measuring your losses by such a yardstick is like beating yourself up for being bad at math, compared with Albert Einstein.
I know that it's bad manners to use Mr. Allen's earlier pictures as a yardstick to measure (or to smack around) his more recent ones, but the miniaturism he seems to be embracing ever more ardently with each new film strikes me as timid and defensive.
An important caveat: As public editor, I have sought to avoid evaluating opinion articles because I haven't found a universally acceptable yardstick for measuring what is good opinion and what is bad.
A better yardstick is education.
What yardstick are you using?
