Sentence examples for using as a yardstick from inspiring English sources

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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.

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.

It is doing well next to the October-timed speciality releases Fox has been using as a yardstick: Captain Phillips (-36.2%) and The Departed (-29.2%) saw similar second-weekend audience loyalty, while Gravity (-22.6%) and Argo (-15.5%, albeit on a much smaller opening) held better.

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".

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.

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.

Applicants should know that the index is not intended to be used as a yardstick to determine whether an aspiring high school student is Ivy League material – or more to the point, someone who is going to survive the intricate admissions processes of some of the nation's most selective colleges and universities.

Intraoperatively the Garden alignment index was used as a yardstick of acceptable reduction.