Sentence examples for yardstick which is 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.

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.

In addition, executives need to design service products based on customer-focused metrics such as machine uptime not on internally focused metrics such as the part-fill rate, which is the yardstick that most companies use.

A financial measure known as funds from operations, which is considered a yardstick for real estate funds, is expected to be 37 or 38 cents a share.

(Actually, he probably threw up the normal amount, but he certainly threw up more than an adult, which was my yardstick up until becoming a mum).

Richard Strauss called for "lots of horns, which are always a yardstick for heroism".

The Fragrant Hills on the edge of the city, which are a reliable yardstick for gauging the day's haze, were not only visible, but verdant.

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

This Rule points us in a clear direction... the yardstick we use for others will be the yardstick which time will use for us.

The result is that students' achievement is compared using a multitude of yardsticks which have not themselves been compared.

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