Sentence examples for yardstick in which from inspiring English sources

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.

It is a yardstick part in which a lifetime of experience is put to the test, often at an age when energy is on the wane.

Change the yardstick to the number of days in which the index moves by at least 3percentt, and this is the most volatile year since 1946, according to Leuthold Weeden Research in Minneapolis.

However, a more nuanced analysis of the situation would acknowledge the political turmoil that characterized many regions and periods and would also suggest that a degree of caution is needed in applying Western criteria for literary evaluation to a period in which the aesthetic yardsticks were clearly different.

A better yardstick may be this morning's victory speech, in which the only issue Trump mentions is a plan to rebuild the country's transportation infrastructure.

Do conventional yardsticks such as inventory and new orders apply to industries in which human interaction is the primary good?

And it should function as a unit of account: a statistical yardstick against which value in an economy is measured.

The radius in which the ambulance can work serves as a useful yardstick for the security situation in the region.

Little comfort, though: "We are brought to a sorry state in which we measure what is good by such a shortened yardstick".

6,260 out of 6,260 in the contest in which Forbes readers were asked to predict what 42 economic and political yardsticks would turn out to be on Dec. 31, 1999.

This is the yardstick by which poverty reduction in poor countries is measured.