Sentence examples for yardstick of the from inspiring English sources

Classicism measures the present by the yardstick of the past.

Measured by the yardstick of the amounts paid for Modigliani and Cézanne, it is laughably low.

Lawyers are having trouble defending the most basic yardstick of the legal business — the billable hour.

But he continued to measure himself on the yardstick of the Great American Novel.

Value-at-risk is a yardstick of the amount of losses that could be experienced in one trading day.

Even now Times editors look to "relative physical damage" as the proper yardstick of the paper's news coverage.

When did the TRPs become the yardstick of who the most credible anchor was?

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

Major yardsticks of the stock market rose sharply in 1998, although most stocks lagged behind.

Around noon, all the main yardsticks of the stock market are higher, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 146.50 points to 8641.53 and the S&P 500 up 16.23 to 1102.16.

But now it is TCS that is being taken as a yardstick of how the industry is performing.