Sentence examples for the primary yardstick from inspiring English sources

The results highlighted the inadequacy of using the global mean surface temperature as the primary yardstick for climate change.

His ambition is well known, and most people think he is laying the groundwork for a run at the presidency in 2012.It is too early to judge Mr Jindal's tenure as governor; and it is unlikely that his record will be the primary yardstick in determining his political prospects.

Nevertheless, publishing such papers is the primary yardstick by which you are judged as a grad student, postdoctoral fellow, and professor, even at the more senior levels.

For the present, forget about past performance as a primary yardstick.

The primary benefit cited for the SAT is that it provides a common national yardstick.

Do conventional yardsticks such as inventory and new orders apply to industries in which human interaction is the primary good?

Classicism measures the present by the yardstick of the past.

Place the beginning of the yardstick at the tip of your outstretched hands.

But in the Internet era, the yardstick for success has been redefined.

The differences in the yardstick values in relation to Yα 0.01 are as follows.

Fifth Grandmother was the yardstick, the golden standard against which all else was to be measured.