Sentence examples for the yardstick that from inspiring English sources

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".

Monsignor Higgins's flow of ideas filled 56 years of a weekly column, "The Yardstick," that appeared in many Catholic newspapers from 1945 until last year.

It was, in short, the day that South Africa released the results of its annual matric examinations, the yardstick that measures not only whether the nation's 12th graders will graduate, but where they will go in South African society.

This was meant to be the yardstick that readers could use to judge the Emanuel they encountered in the rest of the piece.

The yardstick that the Justice Department applied to its merger analysis is a standard, if complex, tool to measure market concentration, the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, or HHI for short.

They'll continue to buy high yield, partly out of self-defense, to keep pace with their peers and the yardstick that their combined actions create.

By the yardsticks that appeared to matter most — prosperity and growth — the relationship between China and the United States also seemed to be paying off for both countries.

– With all the focus on subscriber growth, Netflix investors essentially ignored the yardsticks that traditionally get more attention in earnings releases, at least in part because the company's quarterly revenue and profit clocked in as expected.

"It also includes the Internet, small independent stores and stores that might not report comp-store sales," she said, referring to the industry yardstick that compares this year's sales to last year's in stores open at least a year.

"It is essentially this yardstick that we use to analyze the company," he wrote, "and as the rest of this report shows, we find it woefully lacking".

But living up to expectations was always going to be hard given the mile-long yardstick that was laid out beside him.