Sentence examples similar to personal yardstick from inspiring English sources

Our study also found that abuse can be ambiguous, difficult for respondents to articulate and subject to "personal yardsticks" or pre-conceived expectations [ 31].

It is inflation as measured by the producer prices index, as measured by the personal consumer expenditure deflator (the yardstick of choice for the Fed), as measured by the monthly survey of small businesses, and as measured by the Institute of Supply Management.

Your personal goals are the only yardstick that matters - are your efforts making progress towards your goals or not?

The country of the institution to which the author was connected was used as a yardstick, not his personal nationality or country of origin.

The fine balance of the personal and the unprejudiced is one yardstick of what distinguishes a real journalist from a sensationalist, a decent person from a sadist.

It's not some kind of thinly veiled ambition, because by many yardsticks, in terms of personal business goals and creative goals and lifestyle goals, Mark is a person where you kind of scratch your head in bewilderment as to why he still wants to do it".

We can no longer use personal sacrifice measured hour-for-hour as a yardstick of character.

Daniel Feenberg, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and member of the fund-raising association's advisory council on methodology, suggests that another yardstick to measure charitable giving is its relation to personal consumption.

The catalogue of Göring's art provides a perversely fascinating yardstick for the changing taste of a man known for personal eccentricities as well as horrifying brutality.

The yardstick by which we measure the distance to salvation is our personal work and collective desire to confront the darkness within us.

By any yardstick, Tim Howard's first season as Manchester United's starting goalkeeper was a personal triumph.