Sentence examples for yardstick one from inspiring English sources

It may be, though, that this legislation is too widely drawn since, by this yardstick, one could equally argue that Pavlo Lapshyn's murder of Mohammed Saleem or a homophobic murder fit the "terrorism" bill too.

A labor lawyer on the court would bring more diversity to its deliberations than almost any other yardstick one uses to slice and dice the concept of inclusiveness.

The lack of consensus is reflected in the absence of any clear definitive standard yardstick one can apply to graduates of a standard university biology course to measure their competence in handling the computational challenges of today's research environment.

As for projected returns, Mr. Hochberg suggests two possible yardsticks: One is to require that the yearly cash flow equal 5percentt of the investment starting no later than the second year.

All yardsticks were Stars Hollow yardsticks — one young woman gave her age by saying "I wasn't born until the fourth season". At one point during the session, Star Hermmann, the widow of Richard Gilmore actor Edward Hermmann, who died of brain cancer in 2014, spoke movingly from her seat about her husband's ardor for the series.

Alan Bullock, one of Britain's foremost historians, whose early biography of Hitler became a scholarly yardstick on the subject, died on Monday in Oxfordshire, England.

This yardstick, the one now in use, says that service does not have to be exactly on time, which would be impossible in such a crowded system.

The minister revealed that Middlesbrough was the only area in the country where there is a higher concentration of asylum seekers than the Home Office yardstick of one per 200 people.

They are a good side and a good yardstick". "The one thing in football management you can never legislate against is error.

Ever since Camp David, we in the U.S. have judged Egypt on only one yardstick -- how nice you were to Israel.

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