Sentence examples for ultimate yardstick from inspiring English sources

I suspect this is by the design of gun proponents, since such a debate distracts attention from the ultimate yardstick, which is the number of deaths.

That kind of glum talk is being heard all over Wall Street, where money is the measure and bonuses the ultimate yardstick.

As editor of the Great Britain and Ireland Michelin Guides for the last 12 years (and a Michelin inspector for 20 years before that), he was in charge of giving, or taking away, those precious stars that are seen as the ultimate yardstick of fine dining.

It also wasn't sure if the click-through-rate or completion rate would become the ultimate yardstick for success.

If PPP is the ultimate yardstick by which elite status is measured, what enables firms to achieve and maintain it?

Yet, we have a foolish tendency to assess the validity of other people's opinions of us by their closeness to our own opinions of ourselves, as if our self-views where the ultimate yardstick for our reputation.

Generations of schoolchildren were raised on "Prufrock"; young, would-be intellectuals studied his critical writings; and for critics everywhere, he was the ultimate literary yardstick.

Mr. White says his ultimate goal is a yardstick that will become a standard tool for admissions officers at business schools around the country.

Sure, you might use the same techniques and have the same yardsticks for ultimate evaluation, but when confronted with a phenomenon, the idea is that a scientist will "see what everyone else has seen, but think what no one else has thought".

In terms of the ultimate voter turnout, "there is no yardstick" for success, Mr. Valenzuela said, except for legitimacy in the eyes of Iraqis.

By that yardstick, Trump achieved the oligarch's ultimate ambition: for almost two decades, he had the ability to live like a sultan while paying nothing — less than a cleaning lady or a kid in his first job — to support the public good.