Sentence examples for their yardsticks from inspiring English sources

In the 1960s, for instance, the parades were huge affairs, usually led by mayors or secretaries of labor, followed by garment cutters with their yardsticks, printers in their aprons and burly sailors wearing their caps.

They also used closed sales, not signed contracts, as their yardstick.

As their yardstick, regulators are expected to examine a measure of bank capital called "tangible common equity".

The scientists compared recordings from normal periods to those just before and during seizures; their yardstick was an algorithm developed from chaos theory to measure the degree of complexity in brain activity.

Even by their own yardsticks, Osborne and David Cameron have failed abysmally.

Delivery is a more absolute measure, especially if you use their own yardstick to beat them with.

After all, stockmarkets these days are increasingly moved by worldwide factors.This is why many analysts use global liquidity as their investment yardstick.

The popularity of this index assures that their new yardstick cannot be ignored.

Now the latest wave of Internet start-ups are adding their own particular yardsticks to the valuation vocabulary.

Or are Americans so hungry to see someone's dreams fulfilled that their usual cinematic yardsticks have gone up in the smoke of nostalgia?

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.