Sentence examples for yardsticks of a from inspiring English sources
Like the monks at Mepkin, material rewards will become the ancillary yardsticks of a life well lived.
The filling of potholes is a common, if trivial, yardstick of a mayor's success.
Financial institutions also have to increase their Tier 1 capital ratio — the strictest yardstick of a bank's ability to absorb financial blows — to 9 percent of assets.
"But for this to be the yardstick of a continent is to set very low expectations for a billion people across Africa".
Mr. Ackermann rejected that, pointing out that Deutsche Bank's Tier 1 capital ratio — a common yardstick of a bank's strength — is 9.3percentt, up slightly from the previous quarter.
These losses make it impossible to compare Twitter's IPO with others using the traditional yardstick of a price-earnings ratio.Instead, analysts often look at another measure: the ratio of a firm's proposed market capitalisation at IPO to the past 12 months' sales.
Is there more in the pipeline?" Mr. Decque noted that the bank's return on equity was close to 10percentt in the second quarter and that its tier-1 capital ratio — a common yardstick of a bank's strength — was above the "magic number" of 6percentt.
IN 1990, to challenge the prevailing view that national income was the best yardstick of a country's progress, the United Nations Development Programme published its first Human Development Report, which measured success more broadly by adding life expectancy and literacy to the economic variable.
The resulting revenue-per-fan figure is a rough yardstick of a teams ability to capitalize on its fan base, regardless of market size.
Setting it equal to (kappa ) in (3) and re-arranging gives the ARMA model (2) with (xi _{t}=v_{t}) and ( phi -kappa =theta.) When the noise in (1) comes from a heavy-tailed distribution such as Student's t it can give rise to observations which, when judged against the yardstick of a Gaussian distribution, are additive outliers.
Ellen Mutari spoke about the redefinition of work as going beyond the singular yardstick of "a paycheck".
