Sentence examples for touchstone for determining from inspiring English sources

If support for slavery is the touchstone for determining whether a historical figure is to be honored, what do we do with Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, slave owners all?

But, the innovation of the Kansas court was to indicate that "total spending is not the touchstone for determining adequacy". Instead one should focus on whether there is an opportunity to achieve the goals of education – and here the Court adopted the original outcome goals promulgated two decades ago in the Rose decision of the Kentucky Supreme Court.

Those considering the diary, including Siems himself, often seek literary touchstones for the extraordinary document.

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Before the inevitable backlash, Popper, an émigré intellectual determined to address "the difficulties faced by our civilisation", became a touchstone for progressive opinion.

Fort McMurray is important not only because it is the touchstone for arguments about resource extraction, but because it is so quintessentially Canadian – diverse, hard working and optimistic, a place determined to live up to its potential, and beyond.

A true matriarch, Rose was a touchstone for her family.

Korine: Britney's like a cultural touchstone for the film.

It remains a touchstone for a passionate band of admirers.

Gerard Manley Hopkins was an early touchstone for you.

It was a touchstone for people".