Sentence examples for use as a yardstick from inspiring English sources

Others might use as a yardstick to see how far the genre has come in wedding mind-opening premises to the time-honored virtues of literate fiction.

"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".

If you were to use as a yardstick "The Millionaire Mind," a best-selling study of how the real rich live and think, there appears to be no yearning for life styles more piquant than the mundane ones people already lead.

Millennials were raised in an atmosphere of co-decision making and equal relationships, so evaluations from others is really important to use as a yardstick to evaluate sense of self".

However, in this case, we had another dataset to use as a yardstick for comparison and it became clear that our interrogation of each dataset was informed to some extent by the findings of the other.

Here are 10 questions I will be using as a yardstick.

Legally the pact applies only in countries that ratify it, but its uses as a yardstick may be broader.

Using as a yardstick the ratio of debt to 2001 Ebitda, Verizon is almost twice as highly leveraged as SBC -- a ratio of 2.52 to SBC's 1.31.

But it's opened at $24m in the US, a long way under $69m for The Lego Movie, which the studio was using as a yardstick overseas.

But relief organizations and fund-raising experts say the generosity directed toward the victims of those disasters was aberrational and should not be used as a yardstick to measure giving for other emergencies.

Whether such a friendly contest can be used as a yardstick by which to measure Test candidates is doubtful but then the selectors have little else to judge by.