Sentence examples for yardstick to apply from inspiring English sources

Valuing originality gave progressive critics a yardstick to apply, for better and for worse.

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

However, that yardstick was never likely to apply in the case of The Magnificent Seven.

He encouraged his pupils to apply this yardstick not only to literature but to newspapers, television, advertisement hoardings, letters and common speech.

The lack of consensus is reflected in the absence of any clear definitive standard yardstick one can apply to graduates of a standard university biology course to measure their competence in handling the computational challenges of today's research environment.

This yardstick doesn't apply to major-party politics.

"The Dmanisi fossils give us a new yardstick, and when you apply that yardstick to the African fossils, a lot of that extra wood in the tree is dead wood.

Use a yardstick to measure the staves and feathers.

Note that this yardstick does not apply when comparing pre- to postworkshop gains by the same group.

Remarkably, all cone types use a similar density-dependent yardstick to measure intercone spacing.

Use measuring tape or a yardstick to get your dimensions to match your design.