Sentence examples for the second yardstick from inspiring English sources

Place the second yardstick next to the first to form a V-shape with the open end of the V on the two books.

The third yardstick is esteem, gauged by factors such as editing learned journals, giving keynote speeches at conferences, and international collaborations.

The second theory is "yardstick competition," the traditional justification for public utilities like the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Today marked the seventh time the yardstick closed at an all-time high in the past ten trading sessions.

The widely quoted index closed the day 1% higher than Wednesday's close, marking the first time the yardstick managed to eke out a gain in eight sessions.

And has it inspired Chileans to start their own businesses?Judged against the first of these yardsticks, the programme has undoubtedly been a success.

Applying the current yardstick, 80.7percentt of subway trains in the second quarter of this year were counted as arriving on schedule.

One year to the date after the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 10,000 for the first time, the vintage yardstick of the American stock market is once again flirting with the five-digit milestone.

For the second consecutive year General Electric is number one on the Super 100, thanks to placing in the top fivein each of the four yardsticks.

By the end of the nineteenth century, machines had become the yardstick by which Americans and Europeans measured the rest of the world, on a scale beginning with barbarity and ending with civilization.

Since then "the first 100 days" has become the yardstick by which to measure presidential effectiveness.Maybe some of that stardust will rub off on David Cameron, who today sketched out his own first 100 days in office, in the event that he is re-elected.