Sentence examples for yardsticks on from inspiring English sources

Perhaps our favorite piece of DIY decor, this incredibly cute Christmas star comes together in a few minutes, using about $5 worth of supplies mostly yardsticks on sale at Lowe's.

NEW YORK (RNS) Prominent religious, humanitarian and ethical leaders gave mixed grades this week to progress on meeting the United Nations Millennium Development Goalss (MDG), the global yardsticks on fighting poverty.

An English teacher had once struck him on the head with a dictionary, and a math teacher had splintered a yardstick on his desk.

Alan Bullock, one of Britain's foremost historians, whose early biography of Hitler became a scholarly yardstick on the subject, died on Monday in Oxfordshire, England.

Since the group had no experience, Mr. Perpich began by painting a yardstick on the wall so he could demonstrate the skill of exact measuring en masse.

A8 Thompson on Social Security Fred D. Thompson, venturing into the treacherous political territory of changing Social Security, called for slowing the growth of benefits for future retirees by using a different yardstick on which to calculate the monthly payouts.

Fred D. Thompson, venturing into the treacherous political territory of changing Social Security, called yesterday for slowing the growth of benefits for future retirees by using a different yardstick on which to calculate the monthly payouts.

Two years ago, then transport minister Norman Baker infuriated some train operators by trying to make the so-called "right-time" – punctuality as it appears on commuters' watches, expectations and real-life plans – the default measure of lateness, rather than the 5- or 10-minute relaxed "public performance measure", the yardstick on which reputation and commercial franchises are judged.

Laying a yardstick on a table may help to give a better idea of the length of bridge you would like to create.

Balance the yardstick on the backs of two identical chairs so that the battery hangs freely between them and can swing without hitting anything.

Many, if not most, enterprises rely on faulty yardsticks of performance, favoring financial measures that do not truly capture their businesses.