This remained her yardstick in her subsequent biographical writings.
Mary Lomax, six years younger, was the more proper of the two — her back yardstick straight, her snow-white hair carefully permed.
But always, Harris uses traditional music as her touchstone and yardstick.
Ranchers don't commission her stockyard designs because they are moved by her life story; parents and teachers of autistic children don't care about her theories on curved cattle chutes, but view her accomplishments as a yardstick for their own hopes.
Mary Lomax, six years younger, was the more proper of the two her back yardstick straight, her snow-white hair carefully permed.
In terms of content, Kumin relies on her favorite quadruped as yardstick, referring more than once to "the last two horses of our lives".
Why should competing against men — "pushing the envelope," as Griner called it — be a yardstick for her when the question people should be asking is: how will she fare next summer in the W.N.B.A. against the likes of Tina Charles and Sylvia Fowles?
Hillary Clinton, of course, is measured on a different yardstick, because her best performance possible is a lot better than Trump could ever manage.
Note that while most types of capability analysis require interpersonal comparisons, one could also use the capability approach to evaluate the well-being or well-being freedom of one person at one point in time (e.g., evaluate her situation against a capability-yardstick), or to evaluate the changes in her well-being or well-being freedom over time.
All yardsticks were Stars Hollow yardsticks — one young woman gave her age by saying "I wasn't born until the fourth season".
