Sentence examples for yardstick of some from inspiring English sources

"It shouldn't be something that becomes a yardstick of some kind of new faith.

Having pioneered dubstep and grime, Rinse remains a yardstick of London's underground taste which goes some way to explaining how singer Jessie Ware is sitting here today, nursing tea and batting away the compliments.

That makes radiocarbon dates a yardstick of population, or so think Williams and some other researchers who employ this technique.

If we weren't so distracted by the "outstanding" as some kind of bizarre yardstick of self-worth measurement, we would appreciate and relish the real, the small and the imperfect.

"For some people, what animals do is a yardstick of what is and isn't natural," Mr. Vasey said.

Their yardstick of success is market share.

Exhaustion has become a yardstick of measuring a meaningful life.

He once said: Be a yardstick of quality.

Only by the warped yardstick of these wacky days.

Classicism measures the present by the yardstick of the past.

So why should we look to the professional as the principal yardstick of prestige?