Sentence examples for yardstick for a from inspiring English sources

The Jets (3-3) will play the New England Patriots 3-33), their archrival and yardstick, for a piece of first place in the A.F.C. East.

The yardstick for a president is "not really liberal or conservative," Michael Gerson, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, has said.

For example, the debt-equity ratio restriction can control management's use of leverage and also serve as the yardstick for a trigger if the company incurs losses.

By contrast, Mr. LuPone labors to simulate an Old World nobility, sometimes by walking so rigidly he could have a yardstick for a spine.

In a bold move, Roche was testing the drug not for its ability to lower blood sugar, the usual yardstick for a diabetes drug, but to see if it could prevent heart attacks and strokes in people with Type 2 diabetes.

Doctors can prescribe drugs to treat conditions for which they have not been approved, but the drugs' makers cannot market them for such purposes, and the government has been cracking down on them where they have done so.But FDA approval may not be the best yardstick for a drug's utility.

The Blackjack is sort of a yardstick for what a smartphone is.

"Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?" Ronald Reagan's famous question in the U.S. presidential election of 1980 is generally a good yardstick for picking a candidate, or at least for judging a leader's economic policies.

Spreads on credit default swaps — a common yardstick for whether a country's government is in danger of default — continue to signal potential trouble for Ireland, Italy and Greece.

As a yardstick for determining whether a fuel economy improvement is worthwhile for a heavy truck, it can be very misleading, the researchers said.

A yardstick for international comparisons: an application to national agricultural research expenditures.