Sentence examples for of a yardstick from inspiring English sources

But Ms. Philo's ability to give Céline a look makes her the equivalent of a yardstick.

And if money is a unit of value, it is hard to conceive of a yardstick better than purchasing power.

The Poet Laureate is something of a yardstick, but that is more about informed selection than majority vote.

It's hard to say, mainly because of the lack of a yardstick to measure the value of most Internet companies.

He was measuring their power with the help of a yardstick affixed to the wall, and recording the data in a notebook.

There's a bucket-speech convention that, by way of a yardstick, you tell the audience how much tickets cost at the paid-for venues.

I asked a leading Washington observer of the region for a yardstick by which to measure Mr Kerry's success in pushing for a new, American-led peace initiative.

It also illustrates the limitations of growth as a yardstick of economic progress.

This model recognizes the importance of patient outcome as a yardstick of medical education and has been adopted internationally in the Netherlands, UK, Canada, USA and Denmark.

A travel bass consists of a flat piece of wood, like a yardstick, to which Stewart has attached three guitar strings and some split shot sinkers to color the sound.

And critics point to the exclusion of the less affluent and the absence of merit as a yardstick.