Sentence examples for yardsticks to from inspiring English sources

Those who apply Vietnam yardsticks to Iraq are still fighting the last quagmire.

Instead, they talk about the need for a decent capitalism without any yardsticks to measure what that would look like.

Now the latest wave of Internet start-ups are adding their own particular yardsticks to the valuation vocabulary.

States already test pupils annually, owing to the education reforms introduced by Mr Bush in 2002, but each state has long used its own yardsticks to measure progress.

For the past two decades – as the "pay for performance" mantra has dominated – companies have concentrated on designing performance yardsticks to justify soaring pay levels.

The Planning Commission and the Ministry of Rural Development cannot have different yardsticks to identify those who can qualify as poor, he argues.

"It established a whole new yardstick to measure value.

"It's a great yardstick to measure success, or lack thereof," Mr. Carolla said.

This seems like a fair yardstick to use when looking at Glass's own operas.

The Fed's most recent stimulus effort is causing his favored yardstick to grow again.

Riess and colleagues made their discovery by building a better cosmic yardstick to calculate distances.