Sentence examples for main yardstick from inspiring English sources

Bernanke was particularly bothered by E.R.A., the main yardstick of pitching.

We propose that the next government should reject growth in GDP as the main yardstick for judging progress.

The main yardstick imposed is a core-capital ratio of 8%, which is higher than in current regulations.

Our main yardstick for the health of the economy is G.D.P. growth, a concept devised in the nineteen-thirties by the economist Simon Kuznets.

If he allows them to score, he may cost his team a game, but he can still improve his earned run average, the main yardstick of his success, along the way.

The tool, despite criticism for which a high journal impact factor can be the result of many citations of a few papers rather than the average level of the majority, [10] has become the main yardstick to assess the quality of scientific journals.

Penn was determined to get his degree and passed up one of the main yardsticks for draft consideration.

In his very first minutes on the job, Mr. Mankiw was hearing one of the two main yardsticks of his success -- the one over which he is likely to have relatively little control.

Although Wall Streets main yardsticks may seem to indicate a general upturn for the market, most stocks have consistently fallen since March this year.

All of the market's main yardsticks ended higher, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 114.05 to 8706.15 and the S&P 500 up 12.93 to 1111.60.

Around noon, all the main yardsticks of the stock market are higher, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 146.50 points to 8641.53 and the S&P 500 up 16.23 to 1102.16.