Sentence examples for yardstick in from inspiring English sources

We hope all shareholders will use this yardstick in deciding how to vote.

Mr. Engel, for one, doesn't think that anyone uses meals as a yardstick in choosing an airline.

"He beat a good yardstick in Splash Of Ginge so it is solid form and it was easy enough to ride him.

Wal-Mart's domestic sales at existing stores, a crucial yardstick in retailing, have been flagging for years, and Wall Street is losing its patience.

But one can use a rough-and-ready yardstick: in how many places did the inventors seek a patent for the same technology?

But we also wanted to intervene and interrupt that pure voyeurism, and so we have placed a wooden yardstick in each picture.

Klout, like a host of other influence yardsticks in the digital marketplace, like PeerIndex and Kred, is used by marketers to reach habitual comment makers who are likely to promote their products on social networks.

It's not some kind of thinly veiled ambition, because by many yardsticks, in terms of personal business goals and creative goals and lifestyle goals, Mark is a person where you kind of scratch your head in bewilderment as to why he still wants to do it".

The Russell Value Index is up 13.2% this year, leaving the other yardsticks in the dust.

Megill (1992) described the use of cash flow models and NPV to generate economic yardsticks in exploration economic analysis in detail.

The Geneva Conventions, for example, try to codify a series of yardsticks, in order to define and outlaw egregious forms of violence.