Sentence examples for yardstick which from inspiring English sources

I suspect this is by the design of gun proponents, since such a debate distracts attention from the ultimate yardstick, which is the number of deaths.

Airline experts say the competition between train and plane to feed airline hubs is decided by a different yardstick, which they refer to as "total elapsed travel time".

Nevertheless, pain researchers have what Dr. Jon Levine, a professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine, calls a "dolorimeter," a pain yardstick, which involves simply asking people to rate their pain on a scale from 1 to 10, with 10 being "just about posthumous".

The more inclusive unemployment yardstick, which includes part-timers and the unemployables, rests at 17.5%, reminiscent of the Great Depression.

We show theoretically that for the best-practice yardstick, which is widely applied in several industries in a number of countries, these two mechanisms point in the same direction (high prices), which is confirmed by the experiment.

"The yardstick we use for others will be the yardstick which time will use for us".

Existing yardsticks, which include certain supernovas, are important because they provide ways of calculating how fast the universe is expanding.

Start with last week's Pisa educational yardsticks, which show British teenagers trailing their Vietnamese counterparts at science, and behind the Macanese at maths.

The aim of the CSE project is not simply to search for or borrow a yardstick against which learners' proficiency can be measured, but to develop, validate and continuously improve the yardstick.

Jackson's achievements will be the yardstick by which N.B.A. coaches are measured, possibly forever.

But when you go to Europe, there's a different yardstick by which men are measured".