Sentence examples for yardstick against from inspiring English sources

At worst, it is simply changing the yardstick against which they will be measured.

The museum is the yardstick against which cultural achievement is measured these days.

And it should function as a unit of account: a statistical yardstick against which value in an economy is measured.

There is the danger that Saturday's win now becomes the yardstick against which Italy will now be judged.

Their performance, too, would be a yardstick against which to measure whether profit making plans are charging fair premiums.

Correct or not, these intentions at least provided architects with a yardstick against which individual buildings could be measured.

Some had their favourites that others couldn't stand; others tried to hold up yardsticks against which all books might be measured.

He also uses "common sense" and the limits of our imagination as yardsticks against which to measure scholastic notions and definitions.

And these shared views of the ideal white self functioned as seemingly neutral yardsticks against which mundane behaviors, norms, values, and expectations were measured.

He asks us to contemplate "how to live a life with integrity" and to make sure we're choosing the "right yardsticks" against which we'll measure our impact.

Lean a yardstick or ruler against the trashcan.