Sentence examples for only yardstick from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, the iPhone isn't the only yardstick of success.

But popular success shouldn't be the only yardstick by which the Proms are measured.

But political transformation should not be the only yardstick; cultural and social shifts have been set in motion.

As a result we end up relying on the flawed measure of GDP as the only yardstick against which countries - rich and poor - can be measured.

German tactics, by contrast, are highly questionable when seen through the prism of conventional economics - where growth is the only yardstick of success.

Though there is no question that the country benefited by avoiding a meltdown of the financial system, this cannot be the only yardstick by which TARP's legacy is measured.

But because money and opinion polls are the only yardsticks at the moment, several candidates whose fund-raising is failing, such as Lamar Alexander, a former Tennessee governor, and Dan Quayle, a former vice-president, could drop out if they do poorly in Iowa.

When measuring the opportunities available in the stock market, using the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 Index as your only yardsticks is a mistake.

Ever since Camp David, we in the U.S. have judged Egypt on only one yardstick -- how nice you were to Israel.

As Richard Layard puts it, happiness is the only true yardstick to measure society's progress and if we truly believe that then we have to demand reform, now.

There is only one yardstick by which the Clinton administration should be judged, and that is the standard that Bill and Hillary Clinton set for themselves.