Sentence examples for is a yardstick from inspiring English sources
To Russians, America is a yardstick of their own place in the world.
He thinks measuring biodiversity is a yardstick for how society is doing.
Walmsley hopes that the college's culture is a yardstick by which all their activities are judged.
Now known as the Astronomical Unit, this distance is a yardstick for measuring the solar system.
Value-at-risk is a yardstick of the amount of losses that could be experienced in one trading day.
"For some people, what animals do is a yardstick of what is and isn't natural," Mr. Vasey said.
He once said: Be a yardstick of quality.
And more than a few reflect the unstinting businessman: "Be a yardstick of quality.
Thomas knows that the Indiana game could be a yardstick for his club.
Their performance, too, would be a yardstick against which to measure whether profit making plans are charging fair premiums.
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?
