yardstick use造句

• So there is obviously a mismatch in the yardstick use to determine the date.
• Instead, the figures are a yardstick used to calculate salaries, pensions and other benefits nationwide.
• The general equivalent may only be a sort of yardstick used to compare what goods are worth.
• A yardstick used to determine locations with high potential wind energy production is referred to as Wind Power Density ( WPD ).
• Yet, he knows he will be measured by the same yardstick used for Johnston : the ability to block for Emmitt Smith.
• In 2008 it was suggested that the Pharos was the vertical yardstick used in the first precise measurement of the size of the earth.
• A common yardstick used to measure the value of companies, book value per share equals net assets divided by the number of shares outstanding.
• The current yardstick used to classify hurricanes, the Saffir / Simpson Scale, measures a storm mostly by the strength of the winds at its center.
• One by one, historical yardsticks used to value stocks have toppled old records, leaving few measures by which this is not the most expensive market ever.
• Now Mickelson needs to prove he can do that kind of stuff on the weekend in a major championship, the only yardstick used to measure great golfers.
• International donors are pulling back because the crisis has passed and the results of their giving, as measured by yardsticks used in the developed world, have been so meager.
• In a sign that inflation is in check, the US Labor Department reported that its Producer Price Index, a yardstick used to measure wholesale prices, rose only 0.2 percent last month.
• "The logical conclusion is there is some role played " by human affairs, added Bradley, whose studies of past climates were one of the yardsticks used to measure the reliability of the new work.
• The price-to-earnings ratio on the S & AMP; P 500, a common yardstick used to measure value, is at 19.8 percent, compared with an average of 14.2 in the past 20 years.
• Four years ago, those risk factors, yardsticks used by educators to measure the potential academic success or failure of students, were blamed for the " low-performing " label slapped on the school and students by the Texas Education Agency.
• On the financial sector reform, the authorities announced the creation of the Financial Restructuring Authority ( FRA ) to oversee the screening of the rehabilitation plans submitted by the 58 suspended companies, which would be the yardstick used to determine whether or not they would be allowed to reopen.
• Fleischer called the traditional 100-day yardstick used to assess most past presidents " an artificial measurement, " adding that weighing Bush's performance six months after inauguration _ or in mid-July _ would provide a better picture of progress on an ambitious legislative agenda and efforts to end partisan rancor in Washington.
• Along the Imperial Beach section of the border, which runs from the surf of the Pacific Ocean to the checkpoint in San Diego's San Ysidro section, the initial results were startling : Apprehensions of illegal border-crossers, the main yardstick used to determine success, were reduced by 40 percent, to 114, 460, over the past year.