Sentence examples for yardstick now from inspiring English sources

"It's a much tougher yardstick now," Mr. O'Leary said.

Just half of the runners surveyed by the Loyola researchers reported drinking only when they felt thirsty, the yardstick now recommended by most sports experts.

The world's poor, judged by its $1-a-day yardstick, now number fewer than 1 billion, down by over 250m since 1990.

Just half of the runners surveyed reported drinking only when they felt thirsty, the yardstick now recommended by most sports experts.

So by this yardstick, gold now has some catching up to do.

As a result, the blue chip yardstick has now lost all of its gains so far this year.

This yardstick, the one now in use, says that service does not have to be exactly on time, which would be impossible in such a crowded system.

On that yardstick, Southeast Asia seems healthier now than it has been in a long time.

This is now my yardstick for success, because my audience the previous day really did throw vegetables at me.

"The dollar is now the yardstick of cultural authority," Franzen lamented, "and an organ like Time, which not long ago aspired to shape the national taste, now serves mainly to reflect it".

However, two meetings in two successive days changed the way I viewed the boundaries between charity, business and social enterprise – and helped to establish this "uncomfortability" yardstick by which we now measure ourselves.