Sentence examples for on the yardstick from inspiring English sources

But he continued to measure himself on the yardstick of the Great American Novel.

Yet from then on, the yardstick of his economic thinking remained Marxist, adjusted, where necessary, to Indian conditions.

Participants were instructed to maintain the starting position, before performing a maximal vertical jump in counter-movement fashion to strike the pegs as high as possible on the Yardstick with the hand of the preferred arm.

The preferred arm was raised without trunk lean or scapula elevation to touch the pegs on the Yardstick, while the hand of the non-preferred arm was held by their side.

He said he would consult governors shortly on the yardsticks to be used but one key "dipstick" measure would be the time spent by prisoners out of their cells, with targets such as reducing smuggled contraband included as well.

Nevertheless, China did agree to compromise language on the yardsticks measuring imbalances in the global economy.

The certificate's designers drew on the yardsticks used to test commercial products and services".Accountability" has been a buzz-word among providers of succour at least since 1994, when it emerged that refugee camps in Congo were sheltering those responsible for Rwanda's genocide.

Eleven years on, One Touch remains the yardstick by which any new girl group that doesn't want to be the Saturdays gets judged.

Two years ago, then transport minister Norman Baker infuriated some train operators by trying to make the so-called "right-time" – punctuality as it appears on commuters' watches, expectations and real-life plans – the default measure of lateness, rather than the 5- or 10-minute relaxed "public performance measure", the yardstick on which reputation and commercial franchises are judged.

Balance the yardstick on the backs of two identical chairs so that the battery hangs freely between them and can swing without hitting anything.

The squad ran a relatively leisurely 54 plays in the era of hurry-up O, managed a mediocre 319 total yards and Kaepernick barely cracked 200 on the passing yardstick.