No other country offers such a perfect yardstick for comparison, involving near-identical levels of national wealth, population, military clout, diplomatic cunning and historical swagger.
However, in this case, we had another dataset to use as a yardstick for comparison and it became clear that our interrogation of each dataset was informed to some extent by the findings of the other.
Although the number of VC deals point to a more "absolute" yardstick of investor interest in a metropolitan region, the dollar volume represented by those deals often draws a starker comparison between ecosystems.
Only by the warped yardstick of these wacky days.
Exhaustion has become a yardstick of measuring a meaningful life.
He once said: Be a yardstick of quality.
Classicism measures the present by the yardstick of the past.
It also illustrates the limitations of growth as a yardstick of economic progress.
Measured by the yardstick of the amounts paid for Modigliani and Cézanne, it is laughably low.
By the yardstick of Academy membership, he's wickedly au courant, verging on edgy.
