Sentence examples for yardstick of a from inspiring English sources

The filling of potholes is a common, if trivial, yardstick of a mayor's success.

Financial institutions also have to increase their Tier 1 capital ratio — the strictest yardstick of a bank's ability to absorb financial blows — to 9 percent of assets.

"But for this to be the yardstick of a continent is to set very low expectations for a billion people across Africa".

Mr. Ackermann rejected that, pointing out that Deutsche Bank's Tier 1 capital ratio — a common yardstick of a bank's strength — is 9.3percentt, up slightly from the previous quarter.

IN 1990, to challenge the prevailing view that national income was the best yardstick of a country's progress, the United Nations Development Programme published its first Human Development Report, which measured success more broadly by adding life expectancy and literacy to the economic variable.

These losses make it impossible to compare Twitter's IPO with others using the traditional yardstick of a price-earnings ratio.Instead, analysts often look at another measure: the ratio of a firm's proposed market capitalisation at IPO to the past 12 months' sales.

Exhaustion has become a yardstick of measuring a meaningful life.

The festival offered up funk as motion, as repetition, as a mathematical pattern, as a process, as a communal project, as a yardstick of history and a reason to just dance.

Like the monks at Mepkin, material rewards will become the ancillary yardsticks of a life well lived.

Delgado (1986) affirmed that "the yardstick of integration of a pair of village markets within a given season is that the price spread between them stays approximately constant, subject to random variation either way, over the weeks in the season in question".

In the quarterly filing, the investment bank also disclosed that it reined in its value at risk, a yardstick of how large a loss could be posted in one trading day.