Sentence examples for using the yardstick from inspiring English sources

Using the yardstick of imports and exports as a proportion of GDP, they are more integrated into the global economy than OECD (ie, rich) countries are (51% versus 43% in 1999-2001).

We prefer to entrust the definition of our way of relating with reality to the hypothetic-dubitative triangulations of the conditional and the subjunctive, mainly because we tend to measure the reliability of what is apparent by using the yardstick of its paradigmatic 'should be'.

However, using the yardstick that any intervention whose ICER is in excess of three times the per capita GNP is not cost effective, then adding any of the screening programmes to treatment will not be considered as being cost effective.

Measure your height in inches using the yardstick or measuring tape.

These losses make it impossible to compare Twitter's IPO with others using the traditional yardstick of a price-earnings ratio.Instead, analysts often look at another measure: the ratio of a firm's proposed market capitalisation at IPO to the past 12 months' sales.

"Understanding the evolution of cognition will require paying attention to the social ecology of each species, rather than using the human yardstick".

Using the foregoing yardstick, I would argue that Mandela, Nkurumah, and Nyerere did significantly more to unify and uplift their respective people than Jomo given the underlying issues surrounding Kenya's current socio-political and economic woes.

Surely, as the European Parliament, we too must be able once in a while to acknowledge positive results - so that when the people outside hear us, they will see that progress is being made - instead of always using the same negative yardstick.

The unemployment rate using the internationally agreed yardstick for calculating joblessness rose to 7.9% for May to July, from 7.7% in February to April.

Maybe that's because we still tend to look at businesses using the industrial era yardsticks–assuming that bigger is better.

"Principals Younger and Freer, but Raise Doubts in the Schools" ("Controlling Interests" series, front page, May 26) used the wrong yardstick to measure the success of the New York City Leadership Academy, a nonprofit entity whose board I head.