Sentence examples for yardstick right from inspiring English sources
"The people training with them had literally a gold medal yardstick right next to them all the time and that makes a massive difference when you can keep measuring yourself against the best - you can see it in the triathlon with the Brownlee brothers, Alistair and Jonny [who won gold and bronze respectively on Tuesday].
He declined to emphasize the "S-word" – summit – a reminder to pick the right yardstick to measure success.
Recently, he said that sheer size, in terms of market capitalisation, is not the right yardstick to measure the bank's might.
It may be optimistic to assume that 20-year averages are the right yardstick, but you get the point: Cadbury investors have little to fear from independence, especially now that the management has made a hard commitment to lift the dividend by 10% a year.
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Choose the Right Yardstick.
"This economy is powerful, productive and prosperous," George Bush boasted recently, and by many yardsticks he is right.
He asks us to contemplate "how to live a life with integrity" and to make sure we're choosing the "right yardsticks" against which we'll measure our impact.
"It's quite common for people who talk about sex with their friends to complain that their sex lives are lacking.The yardstick that measures the right amount of sex you have in your relationship has to be based on the right amount for you and your partner, not on anybody else".
He said the N.A.A.C.P. wanted "to be clear that there's a single yardstick by which civil rights are judged".
Measured with such yardsticks for human rights, the United States falls far short of many countries.
