Примери за yardstick

• You cannot measure a microbe with a yardstick.

• He hit me across the head with a yardstick.

• He claims she broke rulers and yardsticks over his head.

• Network industries in the region are small, and so even yardstick competition within a country is not viable.

• In the experimental hypnotism, the yardstick for a good subject was its constancy in displaying certain symptoms that could be translated into a regular curve.

• This would include the development and propagation of costing techniques and viable yardsticks by which efficiency comparisons could be made within and between services.

• Even today, the 1946 riot is the yardstick, especially for its survivors, in assessing the intensity of communal violence of recent times.

• This is the yardstick for the following statistics.

• It was apparent that the appointing panel felt obliged to take chronological age into consideration, that is, to discriminate by that yardstick.

• The following is a set of goals for a "good" simulationbased exercise that can be used as a yardstick to consider new assignments.

• It is a yardstick by which to see whether an artist cares about or engages in the real life of people.

• Intelligibility should be the yardstick for a norm: mistakes are not part of the linguistic culture of a region.

• Stories as such serve as an important yardstick for determining the strength of the pinzhong when purchasing a cricket.

• This measure is intended as a yardstick for phonological development, and forms the basis of a developmental scale.

• It should be noted that it constitutes a yardstick to be assessed by reviewers of each program.

• Panurge's dream was in this sense a yardstick against which the appropriateness of specific techniques or strategies could be gauged.

• Using the concept of isomerism of individual molecules as the yardstick for isomerism in a hominid, therefore, is unduly restrictive.

• Tradition was used as the handy yardstick to check the most "undesirable" aspects of change.