Sentence examples for yardstick that from inspiring English sources

|  Paul Kasriel has a yardstick that helps him assess whether the Federal Reserve's extraordinary stimulus will lead to economic growth.

Some of the most creative manufacturing and distribution companies-think Dell-won't appear on any yardstick that tracks intellectual property.

If you are setting goals, you want to be the best and if that's the yardstick that determines you are the best, then you take it seriously".

Luckily there is a yardstick that finesses many of these problems: electricity output, which is mainly a measure of consumer affluence and industrial activity.

But living up to expectations was always going to be hard given the mile-long yardstick that was laid out beside him.

Schools in Salford and in Canning Town are to be judged against a yardstick that includes their GCSE results in languages.

Using basic yardsticks, that measures out to 1.5 million fewer jobs.

One of their worries is that these scores, which have spread quietly through American business, measure individuals against one another, using yardsticks that are essentially secret.

But while the safety goal of once in 100,000 years expresses a real number, the component failure numbers are yardsticks that may be wrong.

Companies who stick to the metrics set in their pay plans risk choosing yardsticks that don't accurately represent how investors fare.

By the yardsticks that appeared to matter most — prosperity and growth — the relationship between China and the United States also seemed to be paying off for both countries.