Sentence examples for yardstick of its from inspiring English sources

And, like it or not, many in the West take Turkey's attitude to Israel as a yardstick of its broader intentions.

The crackdown on the Falun Gong was prompted not by its goofy ideas, but out of fear of the non-party space it occupies, and should be seen more as a measure of the party's rising alarm than as a yardstick of its success.

Another yardstick of its scale: In the Asian financial crisis of 1998, China responded with a package worth just 1.2% of gross domestic product.

We prefer to entrust the definition of our way of relating with reality to the hypothetic-dubitative triangulations of the conditional and the subjunctive, mainly because we tend to measure the reliability of what is apparent by using the yardstick of its paradigmatic 'should be'.

This muckraking is the yardstick many of its journalists hold it to.

Yet from then on, the yardstick of his economic thinking remained Marxist, adjusted, where necessary, to Indian conditions.

In assembling the list, the research group uses four measures of patent activity as its yardstick of innovation.

It provides a yardstick of our knowledge base, it provides guidance in setting research priorities, and it provides an important tool for prevention of cancer.

Writing last year, Aditya Chakrabortty posted that we should seriously start looking at other indicators: For all its prominence, GDP is only one yardstick of economic performance and it is no guide to social progress.

But this favourite inflation yardstick of the Federal Reserve was still outside its comfort zone.By the standards of the 1970s, when inflation was in double digits and unemployment not far behind, today's plight is hardly grave.

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.