Sentence examples for be a yardstick from inspiring English sources

He once said: Be a yardstick of quality.

And more than a few reflect the unstinting businessman: "Be a yardstick of quality.

Thomas knows that the Indiana game could be a yardstick for his club.

Their performance, too, would be a yardstick against which to measure whether profit making plans are charging fair premiums.

But that does not always have to be a yardstick by which we assess art exhibitions, for the pleasure derived from viewing art — like reading an airport novel, or seeing a frothy musical — can be an end in itself.

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?

He thinks measuring biodiversity is a yardstick for how society is doing.

To Russians, America is a yardstick of their own place in the world.

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

"For some people, what animals do is a yardstick of what is and isn't natural," Mr. Vasey said.

Value-at-risk is a yardstick of the amount of losses that could be experienced in one trading day.