Sentence examples for to yardstick from inspiring English sources

Smith's arms are long enough to "yardstick" his opponent — Ali's way of extending his left arm to a boxer's forehead and holding him off.

At work, the addiction to yardsticks is pathological.

You can tell when an organization is addicted to yardsticks, because when you work there or go to a job interview there, that's all they can talk about.

The 49-page report, according to its lead author, Jonathan Rothwell, a senior research associate at Brookings, was an attempt to put a yardstick to the output of innovation, make comparisons and suggest useful policy steps.

Although most of these stocks are still pricey by a price-to-earnings yardstick, these companies have an average enterprise value of just 0.8 times sales.

Mrs. Licht also showed the group a little cutout of a palm and fingers attached to a yardstick.

Crumbine took an invention known as the Fly Bat — a screen attached to a yardstick — and renamed it the Fly Swatter, which became the generic term we use today.

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.

Various Western scientific disciplines have conducted studies to learn how Chinese medicine works, but it is difficult to use a Western yardstick to measure Eastern medicine.

"Many parents seem never to consider whether something is right or wrong and have no value system to use as a yardstick to measure their actions".