Sentence examples for yardsticks available from inspiring English sources

Development economics refers to the determination of the investment opportunities that occur after the discovery of the resource, with specific regard to the techniques used and the economic yardsticks available for investment decisions (Roebuck 1992).

The SAT is the single common yardstick available to benefit both students and colleges.

Another common yardstick was not made available when the Ross School declined to release the graduates' average SAT score.

But then Nubians were supposed to make themselves available as human yardsticks for the photographer's conveyance of scale, thus sparing Europeans the indignity of being dwarfed by the Pharaohs.

In 1997 Lipinski published a key paper identifying molecular features that appear to be found in orally available drugs [11] the Lipinski "rule of five" has since become the yardstick by which potential development compounds are judged.

What a kilometre distance means to urban dwellers in Lagos would differ significantly to the structures and population densities that are available in the rural settlements, yet they apparently have the same indicator yardstick.

For instance, shares in Internet service providers such as T-Online, mostly owned by Deutsche Telekom, or Terra Networks (Telefonica) have fallen sharply since the spring, but are still horribly expensive by traditional yardsticks.One reason why they have been so expensive is that only small proportions of their shares were actually available, because their parent companies chose to sell so few.

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.

Moussa: Why different yardsticks?

Different yardsticks show diverging trends.

The suspenders looked like yardsticks.