Sentence examples for general yardstick from inspiring English sources

Because of the varied character of the acts of which war rimes accused have been convicted, no general yardstick for sentences can properly be established.

Therefore, accused is not guilty of specification 1. 3. In terms of petitions for clemency, the reviewer writes that, "A general yardstick for evaluating sentences in war crimes cases would be ina ppropriate because of the varied conditions and circumstances under which the offenses in different war crimes cases were committed.

This method provides a general yardstick for the wealth of a market.

Moreover, it would be advantageous to use as a general yardstick for delimiting species a method that does not make restrictive assumptions regarding the genetics of the marker used (e.g., the absence of copy-number variations) and of the populations studied (e.g., random mating).

Furthermore, ASA grade can be a poor yardstick of general health.

The representation of women's health in WS journals is an important yardstick for the general medical literature which has greater influence on the health message communicated to practitioners and the public.

'Case'/'non-case' status was established in the criterion dimensions taking as the cut-off the 75 percentile of the standard yardstick for the general Spanish population, corresponding to high or very high scores ('exhaustion'≥2.90; 'cynicism'≥2.26 and 'efficacy'≤3.83) [ 16].

Although Wall Streets main yardsticks may seem to indicate a general upturn for the market, most stocks have consistently fallen since March this year.

Lifetime risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) is an important yardstick by which policy makers, clinicians and the general public can assess and promote the awareness and prevention of CHD.

Nevertheless, this estimated substitution rate should be a useful yardstick for research in teleost molecular evolution in general, and particularly for those studies on stickleback phylogeny and molecular clock dating.

Measured by the yardstick of Japanese politics since 1955, the result of Sunday's general election is extraordinary.