Sentence examples for yardstick as from inspiring English sources

Perhaps more important is that this energy-related sector of stocks can be evaluated on the same easy-to-understand and directly comparable yardstick as can be applied to over 1,500 actively traded and widely held stocks.

Vermont has embraced this yardstick as well, and the roster of state and international initiatives is growing daily.

A deputy prime minister and former head of the armed forces expressed irritation that Israelis were being judged by the same yardstick as Palestinians.

In grade school, he would stand in front of the dark television holding a yardstick as if it were a guitar and watch himself reflected in the screen.

Night after night, the children stood Alysia on the dining table and walked her from one to the next, using a yardstick as a railing.

Statisticians say changes in pedestrian safety are hard to measure, because there is no firm yardstick as there is for vehicles, like the number of miles traveled.

(Using yardsticks as swords is an apt decision).

Reactors bought by companies that specialize in nuclear operations show better performance, as measured by such safety yardsticks as the number of unplanned shutdowns and the number of hours when safety equipment is out of service.

Investors may find it useful to treat the ISS board score as one more metric for evaluating potentially good investments, as well as riskier bets, along with such traditional yardsticks as price/earnings ratios and growth rates.

The European Union's human rights policy is therefore only credible if human rights violations at home are measured against the same yardsticks as failings elsewhere in the world.

It is a process that we are well equipped to measure, using such yardsticks as the multiple indicator cluster survey, or MICS, which proved its utility in the Mid-Decade Review -- as well as an innovation that we call the "child-risk measure" -- a concept that we hope will eventually offer a more effective way to assess child welfare.