Sentence examples for yardstick will be from inspiring English sources

In quantifying the fame of Forbes listees, our yardstick will be the number of articles in the Nexis database that have mentioned a person this year (through Sept. 22).

If you try to track OEMs by that yardstick, your work will be a little harder.

"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.

Our yardstick will always be to guard people from threats, persecution and intimidation while using the service," Mackenzie said.

At worst, it is simply changing the yardstick against which they will be measured.

The rise this year in gross domestic product, the basic yardstick for measuring growth, will be at least a percentage point less than the overheated pace of 3.7percentt recorded in the last four months of 1997, experts said.

"What good are laptops to us?"The economy will be the yardstick by which Akhilesh will be measured.

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

"His return gives me hope but once again my club performance will be the yardstick for selection," Fofana said.

"Hopefully Ryan's performance will be the yardstick for all of them and be a role model for the other players to play as well as he has done today," he said.