"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 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).
As Baby Boomers our yardstick was always position and salary.
Success in artificial intelligence may require a fundamental understanding of how flawed our human yardsticks often are.
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".
