The phrase "measuring stick of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a standard or metric used to compare or measure against. For example: "We need to develop a reliable measuring stick of success for the project so that we can accurately determine its progress."
Animals and children are the measuring stick of a person's character.
The expectations and measuring stick of success are far different now, the Patriots morphing, along with Brady, from magical to machine-like.
Press Centre Press Centre Home Press Releases 1996-2003 UNinEF in the News Calendar Executive Speeches Country Stats For Broadcasters Tuesday, 5 September 2000: UNICEF today urged heads of state convening at the UN's Millennium Summit in New York to focus on the health, development and well-being of the world's children as the chief measuring stick of global progress.
Brière is perhaps the best measuring stick of the Flyers.
One measuring stick of China's progress has become its annual match with Russia.
The comparison should provide a new measuring stick of one of nature's most basic symmetries -- or asymmetries.
The influence of choice of measuring stick on the results of modeling is responsible for phenomena such as Benford's Law (Mandelbrot 1982) and fractal scaling (Mandelbrot 1982, Burns and Bush 2000).
"Conviction," beginning tonight, focuses on only one, the district attorneys; their cases serve mostly as measuring sticks of each prosecutor's commitment and personal growth.
Over the last few years, by peering at those ripples with extraordinary precision, scientists have begun using them not just as general indicators of primordial conditions, but as measuring sticks for determining the basic statistics of the entire cosmos, like the total amount of matter and energy it contains.
Because the majority of modern Chinese words contain more than one character, there are at least two measuring sticks for Chinese literacy: the number of characters known, and the number of words known.
Whether they've earned it or not, the United States players are still the glamour attraction, and for all those who will use yesterday's game as some type of measuring stick, the world is not catching up.
