Sentence examples for your yardsticks from inspiring English sources

If your yardsticks include levels of poverty, unemployment, racial inequality, housing costs and black neighbourhoods being returned to pre-storm conditions … not so much.

Our Strength (Poem from Children's Literature magazine, March 2010) You Yankee bastards, look in surprise at the sky; Then come here with bent heads, looking into the ground You wonder what power fired the Kwangmyongsong missile And how, startling the world, We broke new ground in C.N.C. technology You can't begin to know our military-first strength; It can't be measured with your yardsticks.

The answer, today, depends on your yardstick.

If your yardstick is statistics, Manning more often than not comes out on top.

If overall quality is your yardstick, however, you could be disappointed.

If your yardstick is whether a work is well known, chronological surveys of Beethoven's piano sonatas move slowly at first: It isn't until the Sonata No. 8 in C minor (Op. 13) that the first nickname ("Pathétique") appears.

His old Boston family had its own fortune, which, while somewhat modest if your yardstick is the Carnegies, was substantial enough that "when I graduated from law school I became the first member of my family to actually earn a living in 100 years," he jokes.

While measuring the stock market's fair value has never been easy, the last six years have underscored the importance of choosing your yardstick carefully.

Man #2: "That's your yardstick?" Man #1: "Well no, but at the same time, you think about it... Gaddafi, the Korean fella, Steve Jobs... .. Man #2: "I remember that day".

So if your yardstick is how we respect the result of the referendum while doing the least damage to the UK's economy, then her deal is a failure.

Stretch the rubber bands onto your yardstick or meter stick.