Sentence examples for used yardstick from inspiring English sources

Patents are the most widely used yardstick, but they are an imperfect gauge of innovation at best.

The most widely used yardstick of equity performance around the globe, the Morgan Stanley Composite Index, showed that a recovery in developed economies coupled with boom conditions in emerging markets has created a new record for shares.

It spent nearly as much, however, and is estimated to have finished the year with less than $30 million of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, known as Ebitda, a commonly used yardstick for media companies.

Yet performance was lackluster: nationwide, more than half of large public pension funds outperformed the five city funds' combined 4.84 percent return from 2002 through 2009, according to a widely used yardstick compiled by Wilshire Associates, an investment advisory firm.

This therefore allows the tibial component migration of the new prosthesis to be considered in context with a prosthesis that has over 20 years of real clinical outcomes, rather than using yardstick values provided from historical studies.

(Using yardsticks as swords is an apt decision).

One of their worries is that these scores, which have spread quietly through American business, measure individuals against one another, using yardsticks that are essentially secret.

An independent institution, the office of the parliamentary budget officer, has found that using yardsticks such as year-over-year comparisons of real GDP (in this case, the fourth quarter of 2008 compared to the fourth quarter of 2007) shows Canada's real GDP was down 0.7%, not significantly different from the United States' 0.8%.

In great houses, the setting of the table became almost ridiculously elaborate, as shown in the 2001 film "Gosford Park," which had butlers of that era wearing white cotton gloves so as not to smudge the silver and crystal, and actually using yardsticks to position each plate and fork, a detail the first lady, Laura Bush, noted during her visit to Buckingham Palace.

And a lot are kicking around, particularly matchups against the S&P 500, the most commonly used market yardstick.

The reader must also be warned that an initial account of semantic information as meaningful data will be used as yardstick to outline other approaches.