Sentence examples for touchstone against from inspiring English sources

This allowed it to become a giant in the sitcom genre and made it a touchstone against which others of the genre will continue to compare themselves.

A company's identity, which serves as a touchstone against which it can evaluate its choices, is often a more enduring statement of strategic intent.

This twelve-month was very possibly the high-water mark for homegrown drama, the touchstone against which all future contributions must be measured.

The man who announced his arrival on the big stage at Lord's not just by scoring 95 but "walking" when he knew he was out, was the touchstone against which other players around the world checked themselves.

(Touchstone Books, 1995) and The War Against Boys (Touchstone Books, 2001).

And, more to the point, it became a touchstone in the struggle against communalism in my country.

Throughout their journey, Hillary Rodham Clinton has been both a standard-bearer and a touchstone to measure themselves against.

And the festival uses its hippie flavor as both a touchstone and something to push against.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made international violence against women a touchstone issue for her office.

The images of Iraqi detainees being beaten and sexually humiliated at the prison became a touchstone for Arab and Muslim rage against the United States in the spring of 2004, and a potent recruiting tool for insurgents in Iraq and elsewhere.

The brand, once a cultural touchstone, has achieved the ubiquity it once rebelled against, and the sneakers are slowly losing their cultural sway.