Sentence examples for that yardstick from inspiring English sources

Hardware, software and Internet stocks took the hardest fall, while a more modest decline among transportation and financial stocks helped the blue chips in the Dow Jones Industrial Average curb that yardstick's tumble.

That metric, that yardstick, is the fast-approaching Paris Climate Change conference in November.

But much too often that yardstick has gone by the wayside, especially so when you have Wall Street Club Member like Hank Paulson doling out billions to other Club Members with virtually no restrictions on how this bounty is to be used and virtually no oversight in place.

In subsequent years, however, that yardstick of "minimum credible deterrence" has been regularly recalibrated as India's policymakers went on to commit themselves to upgrade the country's nuclear arms program with a new generation of more powerful hydrogen bombs designed to be city-busters.

While the historical setting of the series does not wholly reflect the experience of women today, we can draw inexact parallels to the way contemporary women so often grade themselves on a yardstick which society dictates, whether or not that yardstick notes sexual, intellectual, maternal, or career-related excellence.

By that yardstick, therefore, we're failing".

If you are setting goals, you want to be the best and if that's the yardstick that determines you are the best, then you take it seriously".

"By the time I had finished my sixth novel I had this nagging sense that my yardstick of contemporary weirdness was really an 80s yardstick," he said.

He was seventy-four, whish is thirty-two years more than the real Elvis got, but is that a yardstick?

Lord Nicholls has now ruled that the "yardstick of equality" should not necessarily be applied to "non-matrimonial" assets acquired before the wedding.

Daniel Feenberg, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and member of the fund-raising association's advisory council on methodology, suggests that another yardstick to measure charitable giving is its relation to personal consumption.