Sentence examples for better yardstick from inspiring English sources

A better yardstick is education.

"As companies look at their performance for 2010, it's clear that there are some performing better than others, and that provides a better yardstick," he said.

(It's worth noting that many of the top 10 coincide with the advent of 3D, and accompanying cinema-ticket price hikes) A far better yardstick of cinematic greatness is, instead, box office returns adjusted for inflation.

Inglourious's eventual $321.4m seems agonisingly over the horizon still; a better yardstick might be something like U-571, another unglamorous but doughty men-and-their-machines war flick, which took $127.7m back in 2000 ($176.5m corrected) on a similar $60m-ish 60m-ish budget

Radio astronomers have taken a look at one of the Milky Way's hottest star-forming regions using a new and better yardstick.

A better yardstick may be this morning's victory speech, in which the only issue Trump mentions is a plan to rebuild the country's transportation infrastructure.

But they say that calculus should shift sharply when existing treatments are highly effective, and that doctors need to use better yardsticks before embracing new technologies in those cases or adopt changes slowly.

Riess and colleagues made their discovery by building a better cosmic yardstick to calculate distances.

And if money is a unit of value, it is hard to conceive of a yardstick better than purchasing power.

The latest year, at £495m, looks a better short-term yardstick; revenues per seat, down 6.4%, will not bounce back quickly, and nor (one suspects) will the pound.

Standardized tests can't measure the essence of a child any better than a yardstick can capture the smell of a rose.