Sentence examples for is the wrong yardstick from inspiring English sources

But that is the wrong yardstick.

It may just mean that money is the wrong yardstick to use when our decisions involve the loss of life.

And when solar electricity is in surplus France can import it at rock bottom prices to the benefit of its own consumers who enjoy the Europe's lowest electricity prices.JACK PONTON Earlston, BerwickshireMeasuring inequalityYour claim that Oxfam's use of net wealth to measure inequality is "The wrong yardstick" (January 24th) missed some salient points.

"If you are trying to have a career, as a black or Hispanic actor in a state – California – where white people are now the minority, and you are being judged by an Academy where the vast majority are white, male, middle-aged and old … well, perhaps that is the wrong yardstick".

Steinberg said the state couldn't wait "to get every single detail right". John Zinner, a consultant who helps developers meet the council's standards, said they are the wrong yardstick for fast-tracking big projects.

The problem is that China's tests are likely to produce the wrong answers, because they measure maleness and femaleness by the wrong yardsticks, and in the process ruin the lives of the innocent.

Global surface temperature is the major yardstick used to track how we are changing the climate.

Shareholder value is the ultimate yardstick in capitalism, no doubt.

This is the new yardstick with which to measure the success of an artwork.

Productivity is the yardstick by which socioeconomic revolutions are measured.

Kleos is the yardstick by which his psychological change was appreciated by Homer's audiences.