Sentence examples for yardstick for whether from inspiring English sources

Complaints to the department are one yardstick for whether travelers consider they are being badly informed, maltreated or cheated.

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.

But it's not the yardstick for whether the people are winning or losing.

The yardsticks for whether or not you're going in the right direction, especially in the short term, are not nearly as clear.

Another factor for Shanahan was that Zetterberg was not injured — a longstanding N.H.L. yardstick for determining whether a suspension is warranted.

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

Everyone has a different yardstick for success, whether it's marriage, children, a satisfying career, or owning a dog, a car or a home.

Since there is no tax or trading system for carbon dioxide in the United States, there is no common yardstick for determining whether the additional amount that consumers would pay for gas is offset by the carbon saved.

Data quality does not exist in a vacuum, a reviewer needs to know in what context a data set is to be used in order to establish a relevant yardstick for judging whether or not the data is acceptable.

You don't need a yardstick, for example, when deciding whether you're well-rested or exhausted, or hot or cold, because those states are "inherently evaluable" — they're easy to measure in absolute terms because we have sensitive biological mechanisms that respond when our bodies demand rest, or when the temperature rises far above or falls far below seventy-two degrees.

The real yardstick for the chancellors' debate, therefore, is whether the public's views about Alistair Darling, George Osborne or Vince Cable have changed at all tonight.