Sentence examples for rating yardsticks from inspiring English sources

Indeed, using the same credit rating yardsticks, Japan fails where Botswana shines.

The new five-year bonds will pay a coupon of 6.2%, a 3.5 percentage-point spread over the "mid-swaps" rate, a yardstick for creditworthy borrowers of euros.

By most yardsticks Indian rates are still too low consumer-price inflow consumer-priceat 10%.

She said she had demonstrated to her banker that she would be able to increase the property's average daily rate, a critical yardstick in the hotel industry, by raising room prices while improving customer service and adding amenities.

But, at least in the US,, where government statisticians use a constant yardstick, rates of sexual and domestic violence fell enormously from the 1970s to the mid-2000s, and have held steady since then.

This dynamic duo sells at one time their growth rate, another cogent yardstick.

He argued that the government's inexperience and "perhaps a touch of recklessness" had led Osborne to repeatedly cite the UK's credit rating as such an important yardstick.

Species that don't adhere to normal evolution rates, he says, are like yardsticks that don't measure 36 inches.

One of his most valuable services to consumers was in establishing "yardsticks" for electric-power rates through federal and municipal power projects.

Things are more worrying for the chancellor himself, who has made a habit of stressing repeatedly and vigorously that the AAA rating should be used as a yardstick to measure his performance.

In line with this, numerous international green building rating tools have been developed providing a yardstick for measuring green building performance.