Sentence examples for common yardsticks from inspiring English sources

It was also regularly rated the most efficient railway system in Europe using a set of common yardsticks to measure productivity and so on.

And most common yardsticks for measuring performance are all in some way distorted by leverage, not least return on equity (ROE .The peculiarity of the banks is not some arcane matter.

The SAT is the single common yardstick available to benefit both students and colleges.

Another common yardstick was not made available when the Ross School declined to release the graduates' average SAT score.

Such loans blend funds provided by several banks; a common yardstick for the cost of cash was needed.

In February 2001, Equity Office said it expected the Spieker acquisition to add 10 cents a share to its annual funds from operations, a common yardstick of REIT earnings.

Below, according to government data, are four-year public colleges with the highest percentage graduating within six years, the common yardstick for measuring rates.

Spreads on credit default swaps — a common yardstick for whether a country's government is in danger of default — continue to signal potential trouble for Ireland, Italy and Greece.

A common yardstick is the Gini coefficient, which runs from 0 (everyone has the same income) to 1 (one person has all the income).

Over the decades, 0.7% has been repeatedly re-endorsed at international conferences, becoming a key rallying cry for aid activists and a common yardstick for the generosity of rich countries.

Since there is no tax or trading system for carbon dioxide in the United States, there is no common yardstick for determining whether the additional amount that consumers would pay for gas is offset by the carbon saved.