Sentence examples for own yardstick from inspiring English sources

How can the measure of morality be empire's own yardstick?

What follows is an unexpectedly heartwarming tale of shaking off the stress of targets and creating your own yardstick.

Delivery is a more absolute measure, especially if you use their own yardstick to beat them with.

Speaking for the German government, Mr. Westerwelle said, "It is necessary to make the Afghan government, to make President Karzai, realize that good governance has to become his very own yardstick".

My own yardstick is to find the balance and make technology a win-win.

Each prioritises a different core value and each has its own yardstick or reference point for assessment (Table 4).

Even by their own yardsticks, Osborne and David Cameron have failed abysmally.

States already test pupils annually, owing to the education reforms introduced by Mr Bush in 2002, but each state has long used its own yardsticks to measure progress.

Its giant endowment lost 2percentt in the year to June, falling short of its own yardsticks and the 3.4percentt gain generated by David Swensen at its rival, Yale.

John Deasy can count on broad support from the civic elite, but by his own yardsticks, his performance fell notably short this year.

States that reward good teaching and use uniform testing standards — rather than the choose-your-own-yardstick approach of the No Child Left Behind law — may get more money.