Sentence examples for touchstone by which from inspiring English sources

The surviving fragments are, in fact, a touchstone by which to judge all other carpets.

It the touchstone by which all similar works must be judged.

Indeed, such rights are the touchstone by which Hong Kong's fragile autonomy within Communist China is measured.

They become the touchstone by which everything else is measured, an unconditional physical reality that cannot be ignored but can, the play suggests, be transcended.

If she carries on in this vein, she will be hailed as the new Dorothy Parker, whose judgment of Benito Mussolini's The Cardinal's Mistress – "this is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly; it should be thrown with great force" – remains the touchstone by which other hatchet wielders should be judged.

Such conclusions seem at variance with Pinker's claim that evolutionary psychology "can help lead the way to a realistic, biologically informed humanism…[and] offer a touchstone by which we can identify suffering and oppression wherever they occur…" (Pinker 2002, xi).

In a sense, the success or failure of the Council depended on this document, for many people, including almost every one of the Protestant observers and the American bishops, regarded a strong statement on behalf of religious liberty as one of the touchstones by which the Council would be judged.

Higher-level theories are thus understood in parallel to historicist large-scale research traditions as guiding inquiry and as the touchstones by which the evidential impact of learned propositions on theory are measured.

"I would suggest that Turing would have said than an intelligent computer could go on as long as you wish, if it was intelligent". Thought chatbots have become regular competitors at Turing Tests around the globe, they are themselves imperfect touchstones by which to judge our progress toward Turing's "intelligent computer". Chatbots can -- and do -- imitate human conversationalists.

."). 103 Iowa L. Rev. (forthcoming 2018), available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abSeeact_id=3057313. Se.g.e.g., Fiona Haines, Corporate Regulation: Beyond "Punish or Persuade" 25 (1997) ("Organizational culture forms the 'touchstone' by which individuals behave and act".).

Unfortunately, the myth has become a touchstone of toughness by which presidents are measured.