Sentence examples for main yardstick for from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

In the last few years Stewart has been trying to build the case that data on Hiroshima survivors, the main source of our knowledge about radiation health effects, is a poor yardstick for predicting the health of nuclear workers, who get their doses in small, chronic increments, not in one large event.

"We need a yardstick for success.

"Juventus were a great yardstick for us.