Sentence examples for such a yardstick from inspiring English sources

By such a yardstick, virtually anything that reduces the probability of financial catastrophes is worth undertaking.

If you are, say, a front-end developer or data scientist, being set against such a yardstick is perplexing.

Measuring your losses by such a yardstick is like beating yourself up for being bad at math, compared with Albert Einstein.

Using such a yardstick will call into question the very approach of sequence analyses.

They may be prototypes, exemplars, analogies, or pictures of some kind of thing, or they may be tools or measuring devices, such as a yardstick or a carpenter's compass and square.

No other country offers such a perfect yardstick for comparison, involving near-identical levels of national wealth, population, military clout, diplomatic cunning and historical swagger.

An oft-quoted rule of thumb is that closing costs should not exceed 2percentt of the loan value, but Mr. Guttentag says that such a simple yardstick does not necessarily work with today's more complicated loan products.

Little comfort, though: "We are brought to a sorry state in which we measure what is good by such a shortened 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.

Mr. Duncan said that he considered an institution's completion rate to be such an important yardstick, and that a low graduation rate should be enough to persuade a prospective applicant to look elsewhere.

And while such tests are hardly as exact a yardstick as those that measure blood sugar, they were done by highly regarded child psychologists and psychiatrists with whom I work on many difficult cases.