Sentence examples for conservative yardstick from inspiring English sources

BY ANY standard, let alone the conservative yardstick of financial firms in Japan, Suruga Bank, one of the country's 100 or so regional lenders, is a little unusual.

One conservative yardstick of international NGOs (that is, groups with operations in more than one country) is the Yearbook of International Organisations.

His yardstick for measuring the performance of Labour and Conservative governments over the last three decades was the extent to which they dealt with unfairness and created a better society, he said.

The yardstick for a president is "not really liberal or conservative," Michael Gerson, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, has said.

But the neglected matter of compassionate conservatism is not a bad yardstick either.Back in 2000, George Bush defined himself as a compassionate conservative.

One of those yardsticks is the so-called leverage ratio, which takes a simpler and more conservative approach to assessing capital than other metrics.

Our yardstick?

The yardstick.

A new readability yardstick.

A better yardstick is education.

We compare four different designs: the uniform yardstick, the unweighted uniform yardstick, the discriminatory yardstick, and the best-practice yardstick.