Sentence examples for such yardstick from inspiring English sources

International harmonization — Carbon-taxing nations can easily offset import price differences with a "border tax adjustment". A cap-and-trade system offers no such yardstick.

For airlines, there is no such yardstick as normalized earnings, just hope and Kentucky windage.

The right never held up any such yardstick to George Bush, and, when they did criticize him, it was usually in rant form.

Obviously the more tangible such yardsticks are, the more usable they will be.

The only problem is that the Clean Air Act makes no mention of such yardsticks or any obligation on the part of the EPA to provide them.

Much the same message emerges from another valuation method, which, rather like the price-to-dividends ratio for equities, measures the relationship of house prices to rents.Yet such yardsticks are not the final word.

Such yardsticks, officials said, would include linking the drawdown of American troops over a period of months or a few years to the ability of Afghan security forces to combat any resurgent threat from Al Qaeda, the Islamic State or other violent extremist groups.

Such yardsticks are also used for understanding poor-rich inequalities in demographic and health outcomes [31,32].

Other districts have used such yardsticks to hand out bonuses.

Measured with such yardsticks for human rights, the United States falls far short of many countries.

It is a process that we are well equipped to measure, using such yardsticks as the multiple indicator cluster survey, or MICS, which proved its utility in the Mid-Decade Review -- as well as an innovation that we call the "child-risk measure" -- a concept that we hope will eventually offer a more effective way to assess child welfare.