Sentence examples for yardstick I from inspiring English sources

Walking along a yardstick, I soon found, is not only unnatural but produces widely varying results.

By every yardstick, I was O.K. My career as a poet — if such a thing can be said to exist — had won me a few prizes and thus the relatively illustrious post of assistant professor at Syracuse University.

According to the yardstick I used in that piece (I don't remember where I got it from), a person standing in a crowd takes up about 2 square feet.

The Fijian props must be dreading their evening out with the England front row and, by the same yardstick, I can see real problems ahead for the underdogs at the line-out.

By any reasonable yardstick, I'm Like a Bird (even without the hoped-for pantomime response of "Oh no, you're not") is a life-affirming song: bright, breezy and a sure contender for single of the year in 2001's more discerning polls.

The leverage yardstick I'm using is something I haven't seen analysts cipher: revenues per dollar of market capitalization.

The yardsticks I use for measuring a politician's honesty are pretty simple.

Among traditional versions, I already had two yardsticks before I set out on this tour: George Balanchine's at New York City Ballet (it is also danced by several other American companies) and the Royal Ballet's 1984-97 version (alas, subsequently ruined by revisions), but each of them makes cuts in the music and disregards details of the scenario Tchaikovsky was illustrating.

Although I visit and review hundreds of restaurants a year, Highlands is the yardstick by which I measure.

The outreach agenda is, along with the restoration of the backbench MP as a political actor, the yardstick against which I want to be measured.

Time for a second opinion: my male friends are alright, so I used them as a better yardstick for how fit I really was.