Sentence examples for yardsticks before from inspiring English sources

But they say that calculus should shift sharply when existing treatments are highly effective, and that doctors need to use better yardsticks before embracing new technologies in those cases or adopt changes slowly.

Among traditional versions, I already had two yardsticks before I set out on this tour: George Balanchine's at New York City Ballet (it is also danced by several other American companies) and the Royal Ballet's 1984-97 version (alas, subsequently ruined by revisions), but each of them makes cuts in the music and disregards details of the scenario Tchaikovsky was illustrating.

She warned Mr. Obama or his supporters against claiming the nomination based on winning a majority of pledged delegates or some other yardstick before the final primaries on June 3 and before the fate of the Michigan and Florida delegations are settled.

Judged by many of the yardsticks of success he set before his first presidential race in March 2000, however, Mr. Putin has often faltered.

Also always close at hand were Mr. Franken and his wife, Franni, who had met in college more than 40 years before; the couple became a yardstick for them.

The scientists compared recordings from normal periods to those just before and during seizures; their yardstick was an algorithm developed from chaos theory to measure the degree of complexity in brain activity.

What we were doing before was, in effect, using different yardsticks for different companies, and it made them difficult to compare to each other.

* The yardstick of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization -- Ebitda -- is meaningless.

For instance, he chose to do away with Mr. Messier's preferred financial yardstick -- earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization -- which some analysts argue can distort results, in favor of the more straightforward measure of net income.

(The offending yardstick was dropped before the firm's offering).The appetite for Groupon's shares is all the more striking given that some serious reservations have been raised about the firm's long-term prospects.

This cooperation between the ballet master Marius Petipa and Tchaikovsky has always been held up — rightly — as a yardstick (even though before the 1890 premiere Tchaikovsky by no means followed Petipa's requirements to the letter, and Petipa made small and large cuts in Tchaikovsky's music, giving up some of his own original ideas for the ballet).