Sentence examples for to the yardstick from inspiring English sources

According to the yardstick I used in that piece (I don't remember where I got it from), a person standing in a crowd takes up about 2 square feet.

We go forward to the yardstick analysis only when a significant difference is detected in the analysis of variance and F0.

Participants began by standing on the force plate immediately adjacent to the Yardstick with their feet shoulder-width apart and looking straight ahead.

The OECD approach to measuring subsidies is likely to be the yardstick applied by the G7.

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

"But for this to be the yardstick of a continent is to set very low expectations for a billion people across Africa".

When he stoops to get the yardstick, a print cartridge drops out of his coat.

"They work together to make the yardstick impossible for the Cambodians".

The shear strength ratios Vtest/Vcalc were chosen to be the yardstick of comparison, where Vtest is the experimental shear strength and Vcalc is the calculated shear strength.

Reduce the number of times you have to pick the yardstick up, reduce the number of errors.

Dow Jones' attempt to beef up the index today is mostly a reflection of the company's largely unsuccessful efforts to leverage the yardstick's marketing power.