Sentence examples for the wrong yardstick from inspiring English sources
But that is the wrong yardstick.
It may just mean that money is the wrong yardstick to use when our decisions involve the loss of life.
"Principals Younger and Freer, but Raise Doubts in the Schools" ("Controlling Interests" series, front page, May 26) used the wrong yardstick to measure the success of the New York City Leadership Academy, a nonprofit entity whose board I head.
No wonder Denmark's central bank cut rates this week.In this section The economics of optimism Accentuate the negative Better late than never Connect 450 Bigger and better Swiss miss The wrong yardstick Oily and easy Berated Broke but never bust ReprintsOn average, Americans abroad get more burger for their buck than they did last summer.
And when solar electricity is in surplus France can import it at rock bottom prices to the benefit of its own consumers who enjoy the Europe's lowest electricity prices.JACK PONTON Earlston, BerwickshireMeasuring inequalityYour claim that Oxfam's use of net wealth to measure inequality is "The wrong yardstick" (January 24th) missed some salient points.
Long-standing German antipathy to the policy, however, has made the ECB a late adopter.In this section The economics of optimism Accentuate the negative Better late than never Connect 450 Bigger and better Swiss miss The wrong yardstick Oily and easy Berated Broke but never bust ReprintsThe central bank is turning to QE because of the enfeebled state of the European economy.
The problem is that China's tests are likely to produce the wrong answers, because they measure maleness and femaleness by the wrong yardsticks, and in the process ruin the lives of the innocent.
The court issued a judgment of more than 200 pages, saying the three Occupy leaders used "a wrong yardstick" to measure the degree of disturbance their movement caused.
Classicism measures the present by the yardstick of the past.
yardstick, and says, "There! 10 feet long". The Polak grabs the yardstick and shouts, "You idiot American!
Fifth Grandmother was the yardstick, the golden standard against which all else was to be measured.
