Sentence examples for our yardstick from inspiring English sources
"Our yardstick is not what is announced, but is delivered," he said.
Our yardstick will always be to guard people from threats, persecution and intimidation while using the service," Mackenzie said.
If we use six months of imports as our yardstick (a common rule of thumb) then China has more than $3tn of excess reserves.
In describing the iterative process, Ries leans on the word "science": "With scientific learning as our yardstick, we can discover and eliminate the sources of waste that are plaguing entrepreneurship". The empathetic process doesn't claim to be scientific, and may actually generate this "waste" of emotional thinking.
In quantifying the fame of Forbes listees, our yardstick will be the number of articles in the Nexis database that have mentioned a person this year (through Sept. 22).
Our Yardsticks, starting on page 109, cover 20 separate industries.
Notice, though, that whatever our ZIP code, our mental yardstick of what was desirable was still New York.
Our main yardstick for the health of the economy is G.D.P. growth, a concept devised in the nineteen-thirties by the economist Simon Kuznets.
"The more we understand these supernovae, the more precise our cosmic yardstick will become".
Never mind that highlights from that stodgy, stultifying game are in no danger of ever going viral on YouTube, our modern yardstick for must-see anything.
