Sentence examples for using yardsticks from inspiring English sources
(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.
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.
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%.
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.
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.
Using basic yardsticks, that measures out to 1.5 million fewer jobs.
Using those yardsticks, Dr. Gerberding said, the agency was "cautiously optimistic" that the peak of the flu epidemic had passed.
