Sentence examples for yardstick of what from inspiring English sources

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

Other countries in the hemisphere, and beyond, will look to progress on NAFTA as a yardstick of what they can expect under the FTAA and in the WTO.

FLORENT MORELLET: My father had a major show at the Brooklyn Museum, a retrospective, in February of '85, and I organized a huge party for him, which actually to this day is the yardstick of what should never happen again at the Brooklyn Museum.

But the point is his action contributes to the further undermining of the institutional process; it has a negative moral effect as judged by the yardstick of what that process ought to be in that institution at that time.

The fine balance of the personal and the unprejudiced is one yardstick of what distinguishes a real journalist from a sensationalist, a decent person from a sadist.

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

The Blackjack is sort of a yardstick for what a smartphone is.

Still, using inequality as a yardstick, he won much of what he had wanted.

That is why many say the federal poverty guidelines are a "statistical yardstick rather than a complete description of what people and families need to live".

Cepheid stars are often referred to as 'cosmic yardsticks' or 'standard candles', and much of what astronomers know about distances in the Universe is down to observations of these young pulsating stars.

"There's a lack of appreciation of what they call 'the grim yardstick of the past,' " he said.