Sentence examples for best yardstick from inspiring English sources
Since the job market covers the entire economy and affects families in tangible ways, it seems to be the single best yardstick.
IN 1990, to challenge the prevailing view that national income was the best yardstick of a country's progress, the United Nations Development Programme published its first Human Development Report, which measured success more broadly by adding life expectancy and literacy to the economic variable.
Doctors can prescribe drugs to treat conditions for which they have not been approved, but the drugs' makers cannot market them for such purposes, and the government has been cracking down on them where they have done so.But FDA approval may not be the best yardstick for a drug's utility.
"Original cost is the best yardstick to compare an oil pipeline to other oil pipelines, to other industrial companies and to the entire American economy in order to approximate the oil pipeline's cost of capital," the commission said Friday.
Probably the best yardstick to judge these results is the national audit of patients treated in 1993 by radiotherapy [15], where the 5-year survival for all patients was 47%.
Polls aren't the only, or even best, yardsticks of that.
A better yardstick is education.
We show theoretically that for the best-practice yardstick, which is widely applied in several industries in a number of countries, these two mechanisms point in the same direction (high prices), which is confirmed by the experiment.
The Holy Grail for Vancouver skiers is Whistler-Blackcomb, located 125km to the north of the city, the largest, most visited and – by most yardsticks – best ski resort in North America.
We believe that investments in national and economic development should use the growth of children as the best and most accurate yardstick -- a human yardstick -- to measure success.
Hillary Clinton, of course, is measured on a different yardstick, because her best performance possible is a lot better than Trump could ever manage.
