Sentence examples for same yardstick from inspiring English sources

"You really want to measure them according to the same yardstick".

States devised graduation exams to measure all students by the same yardstick.

That is different from history and criticism and biography, and they cannot be measured by the same yardstick".

But by the same yardstick, we must be wary of judging this relatively young and inexperienced England side on immediate results against the Springboks.

A deputy prime minister and former head of the armed forces expressed irritation that Israelis were being judged by the same yardstick as Palestinians.

By the same yardstick, the flanker David Wallace might easily have bagged a brace, one in either corner, but for some fine tackling of the last-ditch variety.

Instead, she characterized the station's editors as applying to the United States the same yardsticks that Western correspondents use in their coverage of Russia.

The European Union's human rights policy is therefore only credible if human rights violations at home are measured against the same yardsticks as failings elsewhere in the world.

What a kilometre distance means to urban dwellers in Lagos would differ significantly to the structures and population densities that are available in the rural settlements, yet they apparently have the same indicator yardstick.

Surely, as the European Parliament, we too must be able once in a while to acknowledge positive results - so that when the people outside hear us, they will see that progress is being made - instead of always using the same negative yardstick.

The suspenders looked like yardsticks.