Sentence examples for yardstick of potential from inspiring English sources

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.

They become the decision makers, screening potential candidates against a yardstick of their own idiosyncrasies, while the officers are reduced to supplicants, promoting their schools as they brace for rejections from many of those they wanted most.

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.

It would be unfair to judge him solely by the yardstick of success.

It was impressive, and not just by the yardstick of their age.