Sentence examples for yardsticks to identify from inspiring English sources

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

We use median cost as a yardstick to identify extreme costs as it is simple to calculate and reflects costs typically faced by others in the same location.

Some law firms, for example, try to identify them and reward them differently, because their value lies in bringing ideas together within the firm, not in bagging new clients, which in the legal profession is the more usual yardstick for rewards.

Using another yardstick, it has been suggested that a QOL domain score of 1 standard deviation (1 SD) below the population mean would probably help to identify subjects at risk for impaired QOL [ 9, 30, 53], because such scores represent scale scores similar to those of children with severe chronic health conditions [ 30].

Carbon labelling schemes are therefore developed as meaningful yardsticks to measure and compare carbon emissions.

Other districts have used such yardsticks to hand out bonuses.

Forbes.com looks at several performance yardsticks and identifies bosses who do the most for the least reward.

A rough yardstick for identifying which Asian countries make the biggest ripples in Cancun is the number of journalists who crowd around the spokesperson immediately after a press conference.... Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has certainly come into his own on this score.

"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.