Sentence examples for yardstick to from inspiring English sources

"It established a whole new yardstick to measure value.

The Fed's most recent stimulus effort is causing his favored yardstick to grow again.

"It's a great yardstick to measure success, or lack thereof," Mr. Carolla said.

This seems like a fair yardstick to use when looking at Glass's own operas.

Riess and colleagues made their discovery by building a better cosmic yardstick to calculate distances.

Mr. Kane's show offered a fashion yardstick to mark the rise of a new, and mostly British, generation of designers.

It's hard to say, mainly because of the lack of a yardstick to measure the value of most Internet companies.

It may just mean that money is the wrong yardstick to use when our decisions involve the loss of life.

Delivery is a more absolute measure, especially if you use their own yardstick to beat them with.

Mostly, anchors used Mr. Bush as a yardstick to measure Mr. Obama's better handling of the day.

Recently, he said that sheer size, in terms of market capitalisation, is not the right yardstick to measure the bank's might.