Sentence examples for yardstick has from inspiring English sources

I myself find his cranky insistence on the limits of pluralism to be bracing, though his yardstick has a few crooked places in it, especially in the field of modern art.

This yardstick has its value, but there are hazards in relying too heavily on it.

As a result, the blue chip yardstick has now lost all of its gains so far this year.

Roosevelt jammed through a significant chuck of his New Deal initiatives in those first months, and that yardstick has stuck ever since.

And although multiple studies show stigma based on sexual behavior does exist, no yardstick has yet been developed for measuring stigma (and understanding its impact) in countries with different cultures, healthcare systems, and legal structures, something the study's authors hope to change.

But much too often that yardstick has gone by the wayside, especially so when you have Wall Street Club Member like Hank Paulson doling out billions to other Club Members with virtually no restrictions on how this bounty is to be used and virtually no oversight in place.

He argued that the "harassment, alarm and distress" yardstick had been well tested in the courts.

The Western media should by any normal yardstick have lost interest in N'Dour long ago, but his next album, the semi-traditional Nothing's in Vain, was accorded a rapturous critical welcome.

He and the union agreed on performance evaluation measures last year, the first time in 50 years that the yardsticks had been revised.

Or are Americans so hungry to see someone's dreams fulfilled that their usual cinematic yardsticks have gone up in the smoke of nostalgia?

By virtually every material yardstick, life has improved.