Sentence examples for by a single yardstick from inspiring English sources

But this report clearly reflects a commitment to face facts about America's shortcomings as well as our successes, to measure human rights by a single yardstick, and to practice at home what we preach abroad.

He said the N.A.A.C.P. wanted "to be clear that there's a single yardstick by which civil rights are judged".

But a viable alternative has proved to be elusive, given the desire for a way to measure students against a single yardstick.

These are all, of course, intended as definitions of the species category, and they attempt to provide a test (or a 'yardstick': Mayr 1976 479) that in principle will permit a researcher to decide whether a group of individuals should all be identified by a single species-level concept such as 'homo sapiens'.

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Contrary to current practices, instead of evaluating expression profiles by means of a common yardstick (a single list of highly discriminating RNA species), our method first seeks to summarize the characteristics of each sample employing a specific signature, and then it performs a systematic, all-to-all signature comparison.

Many women share similar experiences of having their actions judged by a different yardstick than their male colleagues.

For Colin Montgomerie something happened yesterday to suggest that his stature may one day be assessed by a different yardstick.

They judged it by a "drama yardstick" and missed the point.

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Measured by a more reasonable yardstick, however, it has seen solid successes.