Sentence examples for be the only yardstick from inspiring English sources

But popular success shouldn't be the only yardstick by which the Proms are measured.

But political transformation should not be the only yardstick; cultural and social shifts have been set in motion.

Though there is no question that the country benefited by avoiding a meltdown of the financial system, this cannot be the only yardstick by which TARP's legacy is measured.

German tactics, by contrast, are highly questionable when seen through the prism of conventional economics - where growth is the only yardstick of success.

Perhaps one where money is the only yardstick, or the law of the jungle rules.

For Robert Kelsey, a writer on motivation, the problem is that money is the only yardstick bosses seem to be measured by.

But because money and opinion polls are the only yardsticks at the moment, several candidates whose fund-raising is failing, such as Lamar Alexander, a former Tennessee governor, and Dan Quayle, a former vice-president, could drop out if they do poorly in Iowa.

If a director's first feature doesn't sell well at the box office (although bums on seats is not the only yardstick by which we ought to gauge success), there's every chance their subsequent features will.

Market value isn't the only yardstick that can sometimes give a distorted view of corporate size.* It is possible for an energy trading company with no more than a few dozen employees to report enormous revenue over the course of a year.

On the other hand, the iPhone isn't the only yardstick of success.

Such wider perspectives would have been impossible if the only yardstick was comparing this year's GCSE results with last year's.