How To Use Yardstick In A Sentence
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on what kind of yardstick is he basing his judgment?
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The most accessible data which might serve as a yardstick is that on applicants' type of educational establishment.
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When you see a place like Las Vegas, Phoenix or Orlando you're talking about what happened earlier in the decade so it's not necessarily a yardstick of what's going to happen over the next two or three years," said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
Population Shift Swells Southern and Western Cities
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This refers to a miser, perhaps the most despised of all types in a world where generosity is the yardstick by which humanity is measured.
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There has been no yardstick by which potential students can assess individual schools before signing up for a course.
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What is even more violent is that in order to escape further pain and buffets, Cheryl found herself clinging for salvation in this instant to the very same social yardstick used to measure her a non-person.
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He was, indeed, as Dr. Lavendar said, a man of humble mind; and yet with his humbleness was a serene certainty of belief as to his soul's welfare that would have been impossible to John Fenn, who measured every man's chance of salvation by his own theological yardstick, or even to Dr. Lavendar, who thought salvation unmeasurable.
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Unless we determine what will be measured and what the yardstick of measurement in an area will be, the area itself will not be seen.
THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
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Walking the grass with a yardstick, she said, he measured for infractions.
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We need a yardstick to measure our performance by.
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They provide the yardstick, while Australia will make their current ranking of sixth look daft before the year is out.
Times, Sunday Times
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Starr offers a yardstick and a set of principles for evaluating our media and the political choices we make about those media.
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He was highly respected as an artist and his art remains the yardstick by which English painters can measure themselves and their work.
Times, Sunday Times
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Productivity is not the only yardstick of success.
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Did I want to fall off that yardstick, right into the tolly-blow?
Dotty Dimple At Home
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You'll need a yardstick, masking tape, and a partner for this test.
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If personal fervor is the yardstick upon which systems of belief are to be measured, then perhaps bitblt should convert to Islam.
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We had some sturdy white board behind a cabinet, so I brought that out for him, along with a compass, yardstick, pencil, glue, and Exacto knife.
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This is a yardstick for measuring whether a person is really progressive.
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Women use them as a yardstick for measuring their own attractiveness, thus arriving at a warped perception of their own physical attributes as being hopelessly deficient.
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There has been no yardstick by which potential students can assess individual schools before signing up for a course.
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In fact, it has been argued that a monolingual bias exists in bilingual research, using monolinguals as a yardstick to assess bilinguals' cognitive abilities.
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The High Court said while granting maintenance, some formula or yardstick must be adopted and it must not be whimsical or arbitrary.
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If there's one thing we've learned from the last six years, it's that likability is a dangerous yardstick to use when choosing a president.
What's Not to Like?
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New Zealand in June will provide the true yardstick.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whether the policy yardstick is efficiency or equity, this is a misguided approach.
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This is a useful yardstick when comparing highly indebted companies in a particular industry with lowly indebted ones.
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Then use that as the yardstick to measure the entire piece and make the tough cuts that may need to be made.
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There has been no yardstick by which potential students can assess individual schools before signing up for a course.
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The most accessible data which might serve as a yardstick is that on applicants' type of educational establishment.
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Wealth category Can cost anything over 10 times as much as the yardstick rugs.
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Maybe it was at the time when reporting weekend grosses became a feature, and hence a yardstick of a film's importance, in purportedly high-minded papers.
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Profit is the most important yardstick of success for any business.
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Are we to conclude therefore that eminence can not be allowed as a yardstick of creativity?
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In classrooms where such a pattern exists personal pace and achievement can be taken as the yardstick against which learning is measured.
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Is league success still the yardstick for big clubs?
Times, Sunday Times
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Profit is the most important yardstick of success for any business.
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They may be regarded as convenient yardsticks.
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The ability to paint hair effectively is one of the yardsticks by which the successful miniaturist is judged.
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It is only at the end-point that, for want of a better yardstick, a probabilistic test is applied.
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For everyday purpose, that standard object could be a yardstick or meter stick.
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In classrooms where such a pattern exists personal pace and achievement can be taken as the yardstick against which learning is measured.
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Another yardstick by which to measure last night's debate was everything each candidate said entirely accurate.
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Net based on the views of 2,500 trainees and newly qualified solicitors is a good yardstick.
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His father paid a visit to mine, who proceeded to thrash me with a yardstick.
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In fact, it has been argued that a monolingual bias exists in bilingual research, using monolinguals as a yardstick to assess bilinguals' cognitive abilities.
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Are we to conclude therefore that eminence can not be allowed as a yardstick of creativity?
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I imagine other lenders use a similar yardstick.
Times, Sunday Times
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Friends and neighbours will have their own recommendations and they're often as good a yardstick as any.
The Sun
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Next, using the yardstick as a guide, pencil as many straight lines as you need for your quote.
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Such yardsticks, though imperfect, have continued to anticipate or accompany major changes in the economy.
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That remains the yardstick by which change here should properly be measured.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tithe, for some religious groups, is the favored touchstone for defining the duty of stewardship, to the point of making it a legalized yardstick applied as a criterion for membership.
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I argued that the obliterate dialog box should include a photograph of a 75-year old catholic nun scowling and holding a yardstick.
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'It's their culture innit' seems to be the yardstick whether it's about 9/11 or the state of play around the world where Islamists are intent on wrecking the status quo in favour of their medieval seventh century barbarousness.
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The number of school buildings built, or the number of students enrolled in schools, was often touted as yardsticks of the great progress made in education under the previous New Order regime.
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We don't have a common yardstick by which to compare the two cases.
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Durability is one yardstick of quality.
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The yardstick for gauging the inherent nobility of a character in major films these days is the slowness of the slow-motion in which their death is captured.
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We don't have a common yardstick by which to compare the two cases.
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Dividend yields have another enviable quality: they are concrete in a way that no other financial yardstick can hope to be.
Times, Sunday Times
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She grew up in bohemian SoHo, the eldest of three children, and regularly cites her mother's little sayings as yardsticks by which she measures her unusual life.
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Duration of combat and numbers of casualties aren't yardsticks for measuring victory or failure.
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The new test provides a yardstick against which to measure children's learning.
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To provide ourselves with a yardstick here, we can calculate that this sum is about 10 times more than the 50 or so ducats that a well-educated person such as a schoolteacher might hope to earn in a year.
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So you'll know then not to use your own excruciatingly exacting standards as a yardstick for judging others this week, won't you?
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Profit is the most important yardstick of success for any business.
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It should be able to establish yardsticks by which to measure the quality and accountability of public services as well as a monitoring mechanism.
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He had a strong common sense, like that which Rose Flammock, the weaver's daughter, in Scott's romance, commends in her father, as resembling a yardstick, which, whilst it measures dowlas and diaper, can equally well measure tapestry and cloth of gold.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862
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Tape measures may stretch, yardsticks may chip and rotary cutting mats may warp.
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Companies ought to be obliged to show how their numbers stack up against the yardstick used by others.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its yardsticks are student satisfaction, employability, service to business and flexibility, delivered cost-effectively.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is piling them up because the stacks serve as a kind of yardstick, measuring a new social phenomenon that is gaining ground in Germany.
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Relying exclusively then on that particular line of form could be an unreliable yardstick.
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The most accessible data which might serve as a yardstick is that on applicants' type of educational establishment.
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While a machine is like an arshin (yardstick), it contains exactly so much as the work required.
The Man Who Was Afraid
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But they remain the yardstick for their successors 11. One to watch.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lord Chesham, chairman of the RAC, said: ‘Never have so many statistics been compared with so many variable yardsticks.’
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Hold for one second, record your measurement on the yardstick, sit back up and repeat twice more.
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Aid as a share of GDP is the yardstick that is typically used for international comparisons.
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Profit is the most important yardstick of success for any business.
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This book examines each of the eleven occupants of the Oval Office since Herbert Hoover in terms of six yardsticks.
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The only genuine yardstick for marketing is how well it generates sales.
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Such yardsticks, though imperfect, have continued to anticipate or accompany major changes in the economy.
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Progress towards democracy and towards freedom of press are the standard Western yardsticks to judge how China is developing politically.
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By any yardstick, that's a large amount of money.
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Last year's final at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium outsold the FA Cup Final that was held in the same venue, which shouts success by any yardstick.
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Clearly defined and specific objectives provide yardsticks for measurement.
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Measure the size of the glass with a yardstick or folding rule.
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Spinoza is also right in his belief that truth is, in the end, our only yardstick, and that to live by any other standard is to be the victim of circumstance.
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One typically measures the quality of a published scholarly book by an important pedagogical yardstick.
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After tamping a few square feet, use a yardstick or a ruler to measure the tamped depth.
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Such classroom observations are an absolute measure; the rating of a teacher is against a fixed yardstick of what constitutes good practice, not against other teachers.
Is D.C.'s teacher evaluation system rigged?
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Government financial planners use 'ruralness' for lack of a better yardstick to measure poverty in the country.
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It could be overturned by Parliament, but at least parliament would have a yardstick to measure itself by.
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Use a yardstick or steel tape measure, never a cloth tape measure.
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Obviously no conventional rules apply; no ordinary yardstick can be used to measure the unmeasurable, no mundane radar screen suffices to keep track of his myriad tangents of sound and silence.
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Wilson and Jungner's criteria are a yardstick against which a screening programme can be judged.
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Equality requires a common yardstick, or measure of judgement, not a plurality of meanings.
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So far as resident proprietors went this rough yardstick makes a useful indicator as to the probability of their owning land in other places.
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How is it, then, that a man so unequivocal in his own yardstick for cultural superiority in all things, despite admitted unsavoury elements, suddenly equivocates like a fox when asked about censorship?
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The teacher rapped on the chalkboard with a yardstick, making some of the kids fall out of their desk comically.
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After tamping a few square feet, use a yardstick or a ruler to measure the tamped depth.
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By this period, however, it had come to be recognised as a classic of the new genre, and a yardstick against which to compare subsequent product.
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His mount edged slightly left but powered away inside the final furlong to score by almost three lengths from a good yardstick in Jungle Cat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Diversity is still measured by the yardstick developed by Russian scientist N I Vavilov half a century ago.
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It won't happen in a Sauber, of course, but at least the team have a perfect yardstick with which to measure their car.
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As the English quartet were all away from home there was a pretty simple yardstick to measure performance.
Times, Sunday Times
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The yardstick for ministerial success, then, becomes accumulation rather than changed lives.
Christianity Today
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After tamping a few square feet, use a yardstick or a ruler to measure the tamped depth.
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The new test provides a yardstick against which to measure children's learning.
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Even when David Cameron says: "It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money and it's time we focused not just on GDP but on GWB – general wellbeing", the statement gets treated as just another respray of the true blues rather than a yardstick against which to judge his policies.
The trouble with the economics of happiness | Aditya Chakrabortty
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For everyday purpose, that standard object could be a yardstick or meter stick.
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They are the perfect twoseome, whose relationship is looked upon as solid and ideal, a yardstick if you will for others to measure up to, an unshakeable bond.
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Without any meaningful manifestos, the electorates have no yardstick metrestick? against which to measure the performance of their supposed representatives, so there can be no way of holding representatives to account.
Myth of the week
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Having said that, it’s very emphatic on the paramount importance of pronunciation in Av Eng teaching/learning (though obviously the yardstick isn’t NS pronunciation).
P is for Pronunciation « An A-Z of ELT
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It is too easy to condemn the past by using as a yardstick the standards of modern western democracies.
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Its implication is that the only yardstick to measure commitment to community and industry is capital investment.
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Return on all assets or on all capital investment is not the only yardstick available in measuring the performance of a business.
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I just think that if we used the same yardstick for our political spokespeople - "mediagenic" -- oof!
In the footsteps of giants
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But the yardstick to measure the literacy rate is just the ability to read and write one's name.
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He was, indeed, as Dr. Lavendar said, a man of humble mind; and yet with his humbleness was a serene certainty would have been impossible to John Fenn, who measured every man's chance of salvation by his own theological yardstick, or even to Dr. Lavendar, who thought salvation unmeasurable.
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