Sentence examples for every yardstick from inspiring English sources
By every yardstick, I was O.K. My career as a poet — if such a thing can be said to exist — had won me a few prizes and thus the relatively illustrious post of assistant professor at Syracuse University.
In 1961, the Trio was described as "the most envied, the most imitated, and the most successful singing group, folk or otherwise, in all show business" and "the undisputed kings of the folksinging rage by every yardstick".
By virtually every material yardstick, life has improved.
On nearly every global yardstick that measures life expectancy and health, the just-published Annual Review of Public Health analysis shows the United States now ranks either last among major developed nations or close to it.
The prevailing yardstick is that every government invasion of privacy must be deemed constitutional if some remote connection to crime or international terrorism can be imagined.
Each is hamstrung not by his mental horizons but by the stultifying hand of convention, class consciousness and the habit of judging every step you take by the yardstick of what other people might think of you.
Most market watchers had expected the Dow to expand into five-digit territory early this week, but the blue chip yardstick teasingly pulled back every time it flirted with the 10,000 level.
The project, known as "Green G.D.P.," was an effort to create an environmental yardstick for evaluating the performance of every official in China.
Judging him solely by this yardstick, they argued the "wasted" Fraser years were something every leader had to strive to avoid.
If a director's first feature doesn't sell well at the box office (although bums on seats is not the only yardstick by which we ought to gauge success), there's every chance their subsequent features will.
