Sentence examples for some yardstick from inspiring English sources

To do this a programmer tells a machine to perform a task repeatedly, measuring its success against some yardstick.

What an extreme subjectivist, even one who demands regularity, lacks is an analogue of truth, some yardstick for distinguishing the 'veridical' probability assignments from the rest (such as the 0.999 one above), some way in which probability assignments are answerable to the world.

By some yardsticks, Deutsche Post is already the leader.

And while the industry has grown enormously since then, by some yardsticks consumer satisfaction has declined.

By some yardsticks, economists say, Europe and Asia ought to be a refuge from the turmoil in the United States.

The United States economy is performing relatively well by some yardsticks — a steady increase in economic output, a surge in corporate profits and new stock market highs — but the robust job market that is a key focus now of Ben S. Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, and other Fed policy makers remains out of reach.

Some yardsticks here investors need to know?

We prepared a 'social map' to classify the villagers using some yardsticks.

Take the stick and do some yardsticks with the ball to see whether you like the stick.

What matters is that qualifications are credible in their own right with the end-user, not by comparison with some other yardstick.

But there can be no justification for trying to suppress fiction because it has not measured up against some irrelevant yardstick.