Sentence examples for yardstick on which from inspiring English sources

Fred D. Thompson, venturing into the treacherous political territory of changing Social Security, called yesterday for slowing the growth of benefits for future retirees by using a different yardstick on which to calculate the monthly payouts.

A8 Thompson on Social Security Fred D. Thompson, venturing into the treacherous political territory of changing Social Security, called for slowing the growth of benefits for future retirees by using a different yardstick on which to calculate the monthly payouts.

Two years ago, then transport minister Norman Baker infuriated some train operators by trying to make the so-called "right-time" – punctuality as it appears on commuters' watches, expectations and real-life plans – the default measure of lateness, rather than the 5- or 10-minute relaxed "public performance measure", the yardstick on which reputation and commercial franchises are judged.

Whether it was bebop, cool school, modal, fusion or pop, his accomplishments are the yardstick to which others are measured.

Depending on which yardstick you prefer, that amounts to the output of seven average nuclear plants or six large coal-fired plants.

They are taken, often simplistically, as neat yardsticks to gauge the relative importance of agents on which to direct research or public health efforts.

While the historical setting of the series does not wholly reflect the experience of women today, we can draw inexact parallels to the way contemporary women so often grade themselves on a yardstick which society dictates, whether or not that yardstick notes sexual, intellectual, maternal, or career-related excellence.

There are many yardsticks by which one can measure a luxury hotel.

At the very least, the scientists have created a new yardstick by which any future foot-dragging on climate can be measured.

Eleven years on, One Touch remains the yardstick by which any new girl group that doesn't want to be the Saturdays gets judged.

If a director's first feature doesn't sell well at the box office (although bums on seats is not the only yardstick by which we ought to gauge success), there's every chance their subsequent features will.