Sentence examples for yardsticks by from inspiring English sources

Cost and capability will almost certainly remain the sole yardsticks by which providers are judged.

Great events, though, are often markers, the yardsticks by which other advances and retreats are measured, and a half-century makes a big difference.

For those who don't know, Neal's Yard Dairy and the Monmouth Coffee Company are the yardsticks by which other cheese shops and coffee emporia are judged.

In other words, there are no yardsticks by which different aspects of environmental protection can be compared even with each other, let alone with other criteria.

These British runners shared an extraordinary talent for breaking records and beating opponents the two yardsticks by which athletic excellence is measured.

He is particularly excited by the prospect of being able to dedicate a large telescope to the search for supernovae, since these are used as intergalactic yardsticks by astronomers.

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

But when you go to Europe, there's a different yardstick by which men are measured".

It became, for many Israelis, the yardstick by which they measured developments in the peace process.

This is the yardstick by which poverty reduction in poor countries is measured.

There is no universal yardstick by which a rich and varied applicant pool can be judged.