Sentence examples for his yardsticks from inspiring English sources

His yardsticks are whether a country has a stock market, an acceptable legal framework, a custodian for his clients' stock and a local analyst who can send him reliable research.

John Deasy can count on broad support from the civic elite, but by his own yardsticks, his performance fell notably short this year.

And so by his yardstick, Mr. Bloomberg as leader landed out of the running.

He runs his yardstick up and down the display buttons, which are sewn onto the front of the boxes.

He drafted it in 1808 using as his yardstick the surface of sail that a fully rigged warship of those days could carry in the various wind forces.

His yardstick for measuring the performance of Labour and Conservative governments over the last three decades was the extent to which they dealt with unfairness and created a better society, he said.

I myself find his cranky insistence on the limits of pluralism to be bracing, though his yardstick has a few crooked places in it, especially in the field of modern art.

Dr. Sirovich applied his two yardsticks -- information theory and single value decomposition -- to the Warren court for two periods when its composition was unchanged, from 1959 to 1961 and from 1967 to 1969.

Kenny said that when Harrlelson unveiled his T.W.T.W. yardstick he was "completely incredulous".

The Fed's most recent stimulus effort is causing his favored yardstick to grow again.

Ailes countered that he should be judged as a producer of ratings rather than a journalist -- audience is his only yardstick.