Sentence examples for yardsticks are from inspiring English sources

These yardsticks are more or less irrelevant for the residents of Kings.

Dergham: It seems different yardsticks are being applied in the Arab world?

Quality yardsticks are helpful, but they still measure inputs -- ones associated with better health -- instead of tracking how patients fare.

This is a reasonable position, if an unsatisfying one for voters who want to know where her yardsticks are truly planted.

Western yardsticks are used to condemn the lack of freedom of expression when there are actually millions of conversations on Sina Weibo, a Chinese micro-blogging site and many outings of corruption by Chinese netizens.

If he hits minimum threshold targets he will receive 20% of that £11.1m after five years, and up to 100% if all the more stretching yardsticks are all fulfilled.

Underlying these biological yardsticks is a not-so-hidden condescension.

There are a couple of different yardsticks being used".

All the same, £9m – even when judged against the banking industry's otherworldly yardsticks – is a remarkable sum.

One of those yardsticks is the so-called leverage ratio, which takes a simpler and more conservative approach to assessing capital than other metrics.

When measuring the opportunities available in the stock market, using the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 Index as your only yardsticks is a mistake.