Sentence examples for yardstick of progress from inspiring English sources

The statistics are more important as a yardstick of progress than as a precise measure of deaths.

As Michela Wrong puts it, the amount of money which it disbursed became "the only solid yardstick of progress, hardly a situation likely to encourage discrimination amongst officials responsible for approving projects".

Tim Moore, senior economist at Markit, said the record job creation represented "a remarkable yardstick of progress as the sector looks to recover the ground lost over the past seven years".

"(This) represents a remarkable yardstick of progress as the sector looks to recover the ground lost over the past seven years," said Markit senior economist Tim Moore.

The former Fulham and West Brom boss insists Sunday's friendly cannot be used as much of a yardstick of progress, however.

His young team has made a list of 62 reforms to get there; the chosen yardsticks of progress include the number of medals won at the 2020 Olympics and the state of the domestic film industry.

The WEF paper says governments should assess 14 yardsticks of progress under six pillars: education and skills; employment and labour compensation; asset building and business investment; corruption and rents; fiscal transfers; and basic services and infrastructure.

It also illustrates the limitations of growth as a yardstick of economic progress.

But if a blacks v whites match provides a useful yardstick of societal progress, we should examine it carefully.

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.

Signs of progress abound.