Sentence examples for basic yardstick of from inspiring English sources

Lawyers are having trouble defending the most basic yardstick of the legal business — the billable hour.

I try to have a basic yardstick for deciding policy: Who is this benefiting and at what cost?

He has spent decades working with the World Bank in creating basic yardsticks for measuring global poverty and with the Gallup Organization in creating survey-based measures of well-being.

Fixated on the relative status of different social groups, "Inventing America" ignores basic yardsticks that show that, on average, American living standards have risen at least eightfold and that Americans now live one-third longer than in the mid-19th century.

It measured two basic yardsticks: a government restrictions index, and a social hostilities index.

Using basic yardsticks, that measures out to 1.5 million fewer jobs.

With the crudest of telescopes, an imperfect timepiece, and the earlier calculations of Kepler, he confirmed the notion of a clockwork solar system and used the transit to make a very rough estimate of that most basic astronomical yardstick, the radius of the Earth's orbit around the Sun.

Only by the warped yardstick of these wacky days.

Exhaustion has become a yardstick of measuring a meaningful life.

He once said: Be a yardstick of quality.

Classicism measures the present by the yardstick of the past.