Sentence examples for yardstick for all from inspiring English sources
"Hopefully Ryan's performance will be the yardstick for all of them and be a role model for the other players to play as well as he has done today," he said.
This, he calls, the "Principle of Humanity": Being human must be the ethical yardstick for all economic action.
Writing last year, Aditya Chakrabortty posted that we should seriously start looking at other indicators: For all its prominence, GDP is only one yardstick of economic performance and it is no guide to social progress.
The other is the canonical Great American Songbook – which is not a book at all but a yardstick for old-fashioned, well crafted lyrics and melodies composed by the likes of Jerome Kern, Lorenz Hart and Johnny Mercer and sung by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Ella Fitzgerald.
Remarkably, for all the talk about the need for business to be more conscious of the environment, there is no agreed-upon yardstick by which global companies can compare and contrast their impact.
While the greater truth for all of us, men and women alike, is that we live life as an evolution and not along a fixed yardstick.
Probably the best yardstick to judge these results is the national audit of patients treated in 1993 by radiotherapy [15], where the 5-year survival for all patients was 47%.
I might add that it is also a fact of life for all of us that, while we do well to pay attention to what our consciences tell us, we cannot make that a yardstick for the conduct of others.
Irrespective of method used, these rules of thumb are all intended to be a yardstick for valuing informal production gains or losses.
We're all running different races, and to use others as a yardstick for individual success would be as fruitless as comparing how well I can construct an analogy to how fast you can eat hot dogs.
And even though CRM relies on intrinsic motivation to be effective, the department leadership needs to clarify to all staff beforehand that CRM is not a noncommittal system but will serve as a yardstick for professional evaluation too.
