Sentence examples for individual yardsticks from inspiring English sources

The Super 500 gets around the limitations of individual yardsticks by measuring corporate size with a composite ranking based on sales, profits, assets and market value.

We're all running different races, and to use others as a yardstick for individual success would be as fruitless as comparing how well I can construct an analogy to how fast you can eat hot dogs.

(Its figures sometimes differ slightly from those of individual countries, but provide a yardstick).

Correct or not, these intentions at least provided architects with a yardstick against which individual buildings could be measured.

One of their worries is that these scores, which have spread quietly through American business, measure individuals against one another, using yardsticks that are essentially secret.

With the documentation of the hourly wage, previously non-existent transparency has been achieved, and with average rate of €43.000 per hour, the clowns have been given a yardstick with which to assess their individual earnings.

It can be safely said that our proposed method is to characterise DR in individual CRC 'qualitatively' and is different from previous attempts to characterise DR 'quantitatively' with the yardstick of the tumour stroma ratio (Mesker et al, 2007; West et al, 2010).

"It doesn't show how the presence or absence of the menopause affects Darwinian fitness," how successful an individual is in passing on his or her genes to future generations, "which is the all-important evolutionary yardstick".

Moussa: Why different yardsticks?

Different yardsticks show diverging trends.

The suspenders looked like yardsticks.