Sentence examples for yardstick for which from inspiring English sources

Wings was an immediate success upon release and became the yardstick for which aviation films were measured against, in terms of "authenticity of combat and scope of production".

A rough yardstick for identifying which Asian countries make the biggest ripples in Cancun is the number of journalists who crowd around the spokesperson immediately after a press conference.... Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has certainly come into his own on this score.

I asked a leading Washington observer of the region for a yardstick by which to measure Mr Kerry's success in pushing for a new, American-led peace initiative.

Researchers spend time looking for an objective yardstick by which to measure the depth of the hypnotic experience.

Later in the hearing, Smith made the case for a new yardstick with which to measure an NSF grant that would focus on its likely contribution to "the national interest".

"The yardstick we use for others will be the yardstick which time will use for us".

This Rule points us in a clear direction... the yardstick we use for others will be the yardstick which time will use for us.

It became, for many Israelis, the yardstick by which they measured developments in the peace process.

The failure rate for startups, using a yardstick in which investors lose everything (i.e., all of the company's assets are liquidated), is between thirty and forty per cent, according to Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School.

The aim of the CSE project is not simply to search for or borrow a yardstick against which learners' proficiency can be measured, but to develop, validate and continuously improve the yardstick.

And even if such machinery existed, there exists no agreed yardstick by which to set fair quotas for countries at vastly different levels of development.