Sentence examples for yardstick for assessing from inspiring English sources

Income-based measures are "the central yardstick for assessing economic performance", according to Kaushik Basu, senior vice president at the World Bank.

With a hull recently docked, cleaned, and painted, sea-trial performance can provide a valuable yardstick for assessing performance in service.

Using a multi-criteria decision system, the non-structural fuzzy decision support system (NSFDSS), the weights for each criterion and sub-factors are developed, producing a yardstick for assessing the environmental performance for construction activities at the construction stage.

In our article, we suggest that policy advocates may want to encourage regulators and lawmakers to recognize the right to self-generate explicitly, and use potential impacts on that right as a yardstick for assessing the merits of new policy initiatives.

The extent to which universal well-being is secured by a practice is a useful yardstick for assessing claims by contemporary evolutionary ethicists to be contributing valid moral insights.

The reforms are in line with recommendations incorporated in a report by British-based law firm DLA Piper that was commissioned by Qatar and has been adopted by FIFA as its yardstick for assessing Qatari progress in addressing labour issues.

Whilst statistical generalizability may be the gold standard for assessing the validity of claims drawn from quasi-experimental studies, analytic generalizability is the yardstick for case study research.

The yardstick for assessment is the performance of first-generation biofuels and fossil fuels.

A poverty line is the starting point for poverty analysis, the yardstick used in assessing well-being and determining who is poor and who is not.

The former are given a yardstick to assess if a given asset portfolio is fit-for-purpose; the latter can assess differences of specific reference funds with respect to the optimal one, signaling possible cases of moral hazard.

For Tunisian CSOs working on migration, migrants' rights have become a yardstick to assess the success or failure of the ongoing democratization.