Sentence examples for principal yardstick from inspiring English sources

It was as if some tour-book-quality recovery from the debacle of Hurricane Katrina was the committee's principal yardstick.

Now generally regarded as unworthy of classification as literature, for centuries (from 1487 to 1901) it dominated the field of Chinese writing as the principal yardstick in grading candidates in the official civil-service examinations.

Though evidence of inflation in European countries is sketchy, Mr. Duisenberg said that the bank's principal yardstick for growth in the money supply, an inflation barometer, showed an annual increase of 6.1percentt in the last quarter of 1999 -- well above its 1999 target of 4.5percentt.

"Principals Younger and Freer, but Raise Doubts in the Schools" ("Controlling Interests" series, front page, May 26) used the wrong yardstick to measure the success of the New York City Leadership Academy, a nonprofit entity whose board I head.

Our yardstick?

A better yardstick is education.

What yardstick are you using?

That's a useful yardstick".

The answer, today, depends on your yardstick.

You can't beat the yardstick.

By that yardstick, therefore, we're failing".