Sentence examples for current yardstick from inspiring English sources

The current yardstick used to classify hurricanes, the Saffir-Simpson scale, measures a storm mostly by the strength of the winds at its center.

Applying the current yardstick, 80.7percentt of subway trains in the second quarter of this year were counted as arriving on schedule.

These are attractive women, by current yardsticks, but what strikes me is how similar they look and sound.

In our operationalization of neglect, we use R&D expenditure as a yardstick for current R&D efforts, as it reflects both the commercial interest of industry and the political commitment of governments and philanthropy.

Although a recession is commonly defined as two consecutive quarters of declines in the gross domestic product -- a measure of all goods and services produced -- the current downturn doesn't meet that yardstick.

Neither can it be assumed necessarily that there is any real equilibrium population size to be used as a yardstick with which to compare current population sizes.

"But I think we have to measure the current confrontation and the current suffering by the yardstick of the political achievements that Israel has to be very, very determined about," he said.

It cements an idea of photography that is no longer current but continues to exist as an unquestioned yardstick in the public eye: black and white, acutely observational, meticulously composed, charming.

But measuring GDP in current dollars shows an economy's international clout and by that yardstick, Brazil needs no statistical smoke and mirrors.

Prof Stead believes that Wales has previously boasted sides of the calibre of the current Swansea and Cardiff teams, although they were judged against the yardstick of Welsh rugby.

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.