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.
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.
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.
Exhaustion has become a yardstick of measuring a meaningful life.
Now it is a kind of yardstick for measuring ego.
This is a good if possibly superficial yardstick for measuring museums' alertness to new art.
Now known as the Astronomical Unit, this distance is a yardstick for measuring the solar system.
At least the report offers a yardstick for measuring future failures.
The mortgage industry has a yardstick for measuring the size of those profits.
