Sentence examples for yardstick measures from inspiring English sources

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.

LIBOR is supposed to be a trusty financial yardstick, measuring the costs banks incur when they borrow from one another.

The number of barriers is, however, only a rough yardstick measure, and the more barriers identified, the greater the need for, and the greater the challenge becomes of tailoring the intervention to those most important barriers.

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.

Take a tape measure or yardstick and measure the height and length of the entire pile.

Take your tape measure or yardstick and measure the depth of the pile, or the average length of each piece of firewood in that pile.

Use a tape measure, yardstick, or meter stick to measure the depth of the seat.

If you are purchasing a used bike, use a yardstick or measuring tape to measure the diameter of the tire.