Sentence examples for poor yardstick from inspiring English sources

In the last few years Stewart has been trying to build the case that data on Hiroshima survivors, the main source of our knowledge about radiation health effects, is a poor yardstick for predicting the health of nuclear workers, who get their doses in small, chronic increments, not in one large event.

Furthermore, ASA grade can be a poor yardstick of general health.

Mesiodistal tooth size was smaller in poor Goslon yardstick scores.

The world's poor, judged by its $1-a-day yardstick, now number fewer than 1 billion, down by over 250m since 1990.

Some (but not all) of the emerging global class are indeed poor people measured by the rich countries' yardstick.

This is the yardstick by which poverty reduction in poor countries is measured.

This popular definition of poverty was first unveiled in the bank's 1990 World Development Report and was later adopted by the United Nations (UN) when it resolved to cut poverty in half by 2015.The researchers now prefer a yardstick more typical of the 15 poorest countries that have credible poverty lines.

This simple yardstick gives due weight to both the poor and to growth.

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.

He also displayed a bit of the flashy populism that has won the loyalty of many Chongqing citizens but has annoyed other leaders, proclaiming that China's Gini coefficient — a yardstick for the gap between the rich and poor — had reached 0.46, a level some social scientists would call alarming.

So Uxbal is a nasty piece of work by any yardstick, surely, a guy who makes his money exploiting poor people, and yet repeatedly we are invited to sympathise with him, and see these incriminating details as flaws in a vulnerable, streetwise character, to focus on his redemptive trials and on his muddled attempts to do good things for the immigrants he leeches off.