Sentence examples for chief yardstick from inspiring English sources

With the restoration of competitive literary examinations, which had been virtually discontinued under the Mongols, the highly schematic baguwen ("eight-legged essay") was adopted as the chief yardstick in measuring a candidate's literary attainments.

The markets chief yardstick hasnt moved out of the 8800-9100 range since Wednesday of last week.

Money and celebrity became society's chief yardsticks of merit and achievement, endlessly celebrated by a gawping media".

The chief yardsticks are buoyed by the flight to big caps, dealing a setback to second-tier names.

Rapid growth without clearly defined enterprises makes it hard to judge the performance of these chief executives by conventional yardsticks.

It may be that such notes are easier for the males to remember, or provide a ready yardstick for their chief critics female hermit thrushes.

"These amounts involved qualify as serious money by any yardstick," said Holger Schmieding, chief European economist for Bank of America in London.

By at least one standard, the 100-day yardstick is deeply unfair to any chief executive.

Rivals such as Next, and M&S, are far more profitable than John Lewis but Iain Hasdell, chief executive of the Employee Ownership Association, says that is only one yardstick with which to measure success.

And even if they have no financial interest in them, they still view economic growth and job creation as the chief gauge of their success.The intentions are goodSEPA did come up with an alternative yardstick, dubbed "green GDP" and intended as a joint measure of both environmental and economic stewardship.

Even the chief statistician of the OECD called for better measures of the progress than the traditional yardstick provided by GDP thereby adopting a cause that used to be a hobby-horse reserved for environmental activists.The 700 were divided ino nearly 70 "Global Agenda Councils", and encouraged to brainstorm.