LIBOR is supposed to be a trusty financial yardstick, measuring the costs banks incur when they borrow from one another.
The hundred-day yardstick measures activity, not stability; new entitlements, not new restraints; historic milestones, not necessary review; dramatically getting the country moving again, not quietly getting the country back on the right track.
Use a tape measure or yardstick (meter ruler) to measure your height while standing straight.
Use a tape measure or yardstick (meter ruler) to measure the distance from your heels to the tip of your shadow.
Nevertheless, China did agree to compromise language on the yardsticks measuring imbalances in the global economy.
The unraveling of a society's institutions, stability and reasonable order does not sound alarms to forewarn the citizenry, apart from economic yardsticks measuring poverty, jobs, wages, health, savings, profits and other matters economic.
If you are purchasing a used bike, use a yardstick or measuring tape to measure the diameter of the tire.
The bill can now be seen as a yardstick to measure the level of tolerance – or lack of it – within the country.
That's the yardstick we measure ourselves by.
"It established a whole new yardstick to measure value.
