Sentence examples for enough yardsticks from inspiring English sources

"We are not in any way relaxing advice about cleanup standards or allowable doses," said Jonathan D. Edwards, the director of the Radiation Protection Division of the E.P.A. On the question of how clean is clean enough, yardsticks used for programs like the Superfund will continue to be used, and "are not being changed in any way," he said.

Smith's arms are long enough to "yardstick" his opponent — Ali's way of extending his left arm to a boxer's forehead and holding him off.

There will be plenty of corresponding news stories about the subject matter of the case, if it is important enough, and that gives us another yardstick with which to judge the agency as well.

A sufficiently dense chunk of matter distorts space enough that even light, the ultimate yardstick, can't emerge without being stretched to invisibility.

His old Boston family had its own fortune, which, while somewhat modest if your yardstick is the Carnegies, was substantial enough that "when I graduated from law school I became the first member of my family to actually earn a living in 100 years," he jokes.

Their aim has been to extend Iran's "breakout capability"—the key yardstick of the time needed to produce enough fissile material for one nuclear weapon from the current estimate of a couple of months to at least a year, and to maintain it there for a decade or more.What did Iran hope to receive?

But measured by the ever-constricting yardstick of the music industry, that was enough to make it a success; "Flight of the Conchords" made its debut at No. 3 on the Billboard chart, placing it ahead of new releases by more, shall we say, omnipresent acts like Ashlee Simpson.

Mr. Duncan said that he considered an institution's completion rate to be such an important yardstick, and that a low graduation rate should be enough to persuade a prospective applicant to look elsewhere.

The main components of the deal struck in Lausanne plausibly succeed in extending Iran's "breakout capability"—the key yardstick of the time it would need to produce enough fissile material for one nuclear weapon from a couple of months currently to at least a year, and do so for a decade or more.

Place the third book far enough away on the floor so that you can lay a yardstick across the books so you can form a bridge.

Tie the of a length of Dacron or other fishing line or other strong, thin, thread through the hole at one end, then pull it tightly enough through the hole on the other end to bend the yardstick in a bow shape.