Sentence examples for yardstick that is from inspiring English sources

While the total compensation figures reported by big banks in their 2011 results may be lower, keep an eye on another, and perhaps more important, yardstick that is likely to increase at some firms: the compensation-to-revenue ratio.

While the total compensation reported by big banks in their 2011 results may be lower, keep an eye on another, and perhaps more important, yardstick that is likely to increase at some firms: the compensation-to-revenue ratio.

One yardstick that is never used but should be, is the simple ratio of market capitalization to pay.

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

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.

The decline is still impressive — about one-sixth — when measured with Britain's own poverty yardstick, a target that is much harder to meet.

Your personal goals are the only yardstick that matters - are your efforts making progress towards your goals or not?

If one applies Hughes' yardstick, that's around 3,200 too many.

As a Paul Volcker-styardstickthat, that's twice the amount Uncle Sam is spending this year to help stabilize Iraq and 52percentt of the total tax cuts approved by the US Congress in its 2009 economic stimulus bill.

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".

The microarray-based analytical approach we have implemented does not replace conventional validation criteria for psoriasis mouse models, but extends these criteria by providing a quantitative "yardstick" that can be used to clearly judge progress towards more realistic mouse phenotypes.