Sentence examples for yardsticks of from inspiring English sources

Polls aren't the only, or even best, yardsticks of that.

Current American share prices are breaking new ground in their relationship with traditional yardsticks of value.

Yet when measured on one of most important yardsticks of all, China does not look so impressive.

Or will they introduce conventional yardsticks of value into a sector that has enjoyed a reprieve from reality?

Money and celebrity became society's chief yardsticks of merit and achievement, endlessly celebrated by a gawping media".

Mervyn King revived the spectre of deflation when he said yesterday that one of the government's yardsticks of inflation, the retail prices index, would go negative in 2009.

Only by the warped yardstick of these wacky days.

Exhaustion has become a yardstick of measuring a meaningful life.

He once said: Be a yardstick of quality.

Classicism measures the present by the yardstick of the past.

It also illustrates the limitations of growth as a yardstick of economic progress.