Sentence examples for no yardstick from inspiring English sources

In terms of the ultimate voter turnout, "there is no yardstick" for success, Mr. Valenzuela said, except for legitimacy in the eyes of Iraqis.

Selective colleges have no yardstick to discriminate between a B average in a pampered Westchester high school larded with Advanced Placement courses and an A at a high school in the Badlands of South Dakota that does not offer physics.

Again, without this most basic information no amount of regulation will work because we will have no way of locating the trades we are trying to regulate and will have no yardstick to measure success.

Without Ronny Rosenthal, there would be no yardstick with which to measure all of the other howlers that football gifts us.

There's no yardstick that can measure how much this has enriched our lives.

And although multiple studies show stigma based on sexual behavior does exist, no yardstick has yet been developed for measuring stigma (and understanding its impact) in countries with different cultures, healthcare systems, and legal structures, something the study's authors hope to change.

In other words, there are no yardsticks by which different aspects of environmental protection can be compared even with each other, let alone with other criteria.

I wish I would have known that if the culture is broken, no yardsticks, rules, policies, plans, strategies or vision statements will help.

Playing in the pit or dancing onstage, I was part of something bigger than me, but there was nothing to measure in my performance and no yardsticks to hit.

What the reports seem to suggest, taken together, is that there is no useful yardstick, and no clear indicator of whether the arrow points down or up.

In an economy where profit is no longer the yardstick of commercial success, it can be hard to find reasons to control costs.Lastly, managers need to return to the idea that it is worth planning for the future.