Sentence examples for yardstick for predicting from inspiring English sources

In the last few years Stewart has been trying to build the case that data on Hiroshima survivors, the main source of our knowledge about radiation health effects, is a poor yardstick for predicting the health of nuclear workers, who get their doses in small, chronic increments, not in one large event.

But which ones? Hollywood has devised surprisingly accurate yardsticks for predicting a picture's eventual box-office tally, sometimes to within $5m, in the first three days after its release.It was not always so.

Predicting that total expense ratios will become as important a yardstick for European investors as they have for Americans, Werdmlder adds: "Knowing only the management fee of your fund is like knowing only the brand name of the front wheel of your bike".

"We need a yardstick for success.

"Juventus were a great yardstick for us.

MIT researchers refine yardstick for measuring schools and teachers.

That is precisely the Republican yardstick for judging court decisions.

Who needs a universal yardstick, for that matter?

Now it is a kind of yardstick for measuring ego.

"It will be a good yardstick for us," he said.

The yardstick for success at C.R.I. is modest.