Sentence examples for yardstick approach from inspiring English sources

In place of the kind of yardstick approach traditionally used to measure snow depth, an acoustic sensor mounted on a pole a known distance above the rock sends out an acoustic chirp that bounces off the rock surface and returns.

The Convention could also allow the panel to use, at times, a "cost-based yardstick approach" [ 20]: demanding information about the real cost of a medicine, setting a reasonable reference price for high income countries, then calculating reasonable prices for middle and low income countries accordingly.

States that reward good teaching and use uniform testing standards — rather than the choose-your-own-yardstick approach of the No Child Left Behind law — may get more money.

For this model the value of n changes from 1/5 to 1 as the pore mouth diameter approaches the yardstick size.

And in taking on that burden President Bush, like President Reagan before him, is a man of instincts, who favours straightforward yardsticks to guide him.This approach has some clear virtues.

Using such a yardstick will call into question the very approach of sequence analyses.

Paper publication is perceived, unrealistically, to last indefinitely and is the yardstick by which people judge any new approach.

Internationally recognized experts such as Philippe Grandjean [ 23, 24] and David Gee [ 25] challenge traditional reductionist approaches as well as the yardstick of perfect information and strict statistical standards with respect to environment and health research.

The OECD approach to measuring subsidies is likely to be the yardstick applied by the G7.

Use the Innovation Value Score® approach described in the above book, or any relevant yardstick, to measure and compare with other companies and achieve more innovation value.

Following the WHO classification the golden yardstick to accomplish a final diagnosis consists always of a synoptical approach including clinical and morphological findings and whenever possible, disease-relevant mutations.