With the support of senior Liberal Democrats and apparently the prime minister, Duncan Smith proposed changing the primary way in which child poverty is measured by moving from purely financial yardsticks to a broader set of indicators, including wordlessness and family drug dependency.
He compares his new method to using a tape measure instead of a yardstick to measure a hallway.
Use your 12 inch rule (or similar instrument, like a yardstick) to draw a straight line.
Following the WHO classification the golden yardstick to accomplish a final diagnosis consists always of a synoptical approach including clinical and morphological findings and whenever possible, disease-relevant mutations.
Zipes said physicians lack "an absolute yardstick" to measure an adequate response to propranolol and generally monitor the dose from the response of a patient's symptoms and from standard tests such as treadmill exercising and Holter monitors.
The former are given a yardstick to assess if a given asset portfolio is fit-for-purpose; the latter can assess differences of specific reference funds with respect to the optimal one, signaling possible cases of moral hazard.
The new, better estimate of distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud, in conjunction with observations of other stars in the cluster, will serve as a yardstick to better approximate a parameter called the Hubble constant, which helps cosmologists estimate how quickly the universe is expanding.
"Original cost is the best yardstick to compare an oil pipeline to other oil pipelines, to other industrial companies and to the entire American economy in order to approximate the oil pipeline's cost of capital," the commission said Friday.
Applicants should know that the index is not intended to be used as a yardstick to determine whether an aspiring high school student is Ivy League material – or more to the point, someone who is going to survive the intricate admissions processes of some of the nation's most selective colleges and universities.
Selective colleges have no yardstick to discriminate between a B average in a pampered Westchester high school larded with Advanced Placement courses and an A at a high school in the Badlands of South Dakota that does not offer physics.
