Sentence examples for yardstick of our from inspiring English sources

Somehow, Keats's "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness" is a crueler yardstick of our place in the world than the fizzy fakery of New Year's Day.

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.

A month later, we must judge it by the yardstick of our great objectives for the European Union.

Is our yardstick of value the money we collect and the money we spend?

Notice, though, that whatever our ZIP code, our mental yardstick of what was desirable was still New York.

Dr. Shapley used a newly discovered yardstick of astronomical distances to displace our planet from its last claim to special status in the universe.

In light of both occasions, we should ask ourselves: How much of this "human yardstick" of child nutrition is really being regarded by our national leaders including those from G8 countries?

A more meaningful yardstick of potential in the new areas is the estimated undiscovered petroleum in all our domestic offshore areas, which amount to 40 billion barrels of oil and 200 trillion cubic feet of gas.

We are all aware of the power of money--how it influences our moods, compels us to take risks, and serves as the yardstick of success in societies around the world.

I know how seductive it is to use the celebrity-culture yardstick to measure the smallness of our lives.

Their yardstick of success is market share.