Soaps also serve as measuring sticks for friendships.
Mark McGwire wiped out those measuring sticks when he unleashed 70 home runs three years ago.
There may be quibbles about measuring sticks and low per capita GDP, so timing is imprecise.
I don't like the idea of measuring sticks — it's like big brother versus little brother.
"That makes the hard-core players very important, not so much as role models but as measuring sticks for other players".
"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.
He talks of measuring sticks and challenges and his team's evolution into a program so dominant it must roam the country in search of competition.
Eventually, he was enlisting friends to tow him with their motorcycles so that he could generate enough speed to ascend the rickety towers, above which he'd placed measuring sticks, for gauging amplitude.
The number, called alpha, would be the same for alien races using measuring sticks based on the width of the fourth planet circling Betelgeuse or clocks with faces bearing 79 numerals.
But as it has been for the past two and a half years, it is unclear exactly what measuring sticks he is using, and whether they present the full picture.
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.
