Sentence examples for valuable yardstick from inspiring English sources
With a hull recently docked, cleaned, and painted, sea-trial performance can provide a valuable yardstick for assessing performance in service.
Taken as whole, this study represents the first attempt to explain at molecular level hMAO isoform selectivity and a valuable yardstick for better addressing the design of new and highly selective MAO inhibitors.
The technique, published in the 12 May issue of Astronomy and Astrophysics, provides a valuable yardstick to x-ray sources that sport a dusty halo.
An IARC classification of "probable" human carcinogen, which implies uncertainty and the possibility that future research may exonerate the "culprit in question," is certainly not an appropriate yardstick to guide valuable and limited resources.
The study of such systems, as well as being intrinsically valuable will act as a useful yardstick against which earlier systems can be measured.
One of his most valuable services to consumers was in establishing "yardsticks" for electric-power rates through federal and municipal power projects.
These subjects may be useful (those of us who devote our careers to these fields certainly hope there's something valuable to them) but I want to suggest that usefulness is not the appropriate yardstick by which we judge them.
A new readability yardstick.
We compare four different designs: the uniform yardstick, the unweighted uniform yardstick, the discriminatory yardstick, and the best-practice yardstick.
