Sentence examples for with yardsticks from inspiring English sources

The impact of new technologies is invariably misjudged because we measure the future with yardsticks from the past.

That means more enterprise reporting and less overlapping coverage of news that cable handles, like reporters standing in snow drifts with yardsticks.

The multifaceted nature of China's economy is reflected in broad SME classifications when compared with yardsticks used in Africa and Europe.

Mullen is twenty-four years old and six foot one, with yardstick-wide shoulders and close-cropped hair.

Fruit size and shell thickness were measured with yardstick with an accuracy of 1 mm and calliper with an accuracy of 0.1 mm, fruit volume by water-displacement with an accuracy of 10 ml.

Current American share prices are breaking new ground in their relationship with traditional yardsticks of value.

In the 1960s, for instance, the parades were huge affairs, usually led by mayors or secretaries of labor, followed by garment cutters with their yardsticks, printers in their aprons and burly sailors wearing their caps.

Our Strength (Poem from Children's Literature magazine, March 2010) You Yankee bastards, look in surprise at the sky; Then come here with bent heads, looking into the ground You wonder what power fired the Kwangmyongsong missile And how, startling the world, We broke new ground in C.N.C. technology You can't begin to know our military-first strength; It can't be measured with your yardsticks.

In contrast with broader yardsticks such as the Nasdaq Composite Index or the S&P 500 Index, The Dow Jones Industrial Average consists of only 30 stocks.

Measured with such yardsticks for human rights, the United States falls far short of many countries.

Now there is one you can measure with a yardstick.