But it is still the only yardstick they have, he said.

I should like to come back to the question of yardsticks and results.

She was standing there, with a yardstick in her hand.

Using that as a yardstick, today had been a very good day, indeed.

Clearly, he said, these were not the yardsticks being used.

After all, the yardstick has to be a moral sense.

Food safety is of course the yardstick in this area.

But there are two questions we have to consider as yardsticks.

The first thing I noticed was the yardstick in her hand.

So if your yardstick is that long, then you would see the effects.

If we got caught, she'd hit us with a yardstick.

Now there is one you can measure with a yardstick.

They served as a professional yardstick for others who worked with them.

Well, that should not have been his yardstick for the Russian economy.

And by this yardstick, living has become a lot easier.

They will see our attitude to China as a yardstick.

Or, in other words, he needed a yardstick meaningful to them both.

In that part of the world one cannot measure everything by the same yardstick.

Have her use a yardstick to draw a line that is three feet long.

For my part, I just hope he is not the yardstick against which we will all be measured.

"They should be left entirely alone and used as yardsticks."

By almost any yardstick, it would be considered a dream business.

We therefore have sound, common yardsticks for whether the community of nations is doing enough.

So let us apply the same yardstick to China as we do other countries.

They still serve as a yardstick against which to measure each individual school.

But it is still the only yardstick they have, he said.

Using that as a yardstick, today had been a very good day, indeed.

I should like to come back to the question of yardsticks and results.

Clearly, he said, these were not the yardsticks being used.

After all, the yardstick has to be a moral sense.

Or take a yardstick, something like this, and you can hit.

The old yardstick, but there's never been a better one.

"He will be the yardstick for my 2-year-olds until something better comes along."

Your mother has been using the old yardsticks all her life, and she can't change now.

I know that up until a few years ago, no Yardstick held any public office or government position.

So clearly we’ve moved the yardstick forward but we believe there is more to do.

That shows the yardstick we set in the season I was there and the year after.

"So I guess they're the yardstick in this part of the world at the moment."

Now there is one you can measure with a yardstick.

Do you still always think of France as the yardstick?

Food safety is of course the yardstick in this area.

They will see our attitude to China as a yardstick.

If we got caught, she'd hit us with a yardstick.

By almost any yardstick, it would be considered a dream business.

But there are two questions we have to consider as yardsticks.

What yardstick can you use to see how a company measures up?

They served as a professional yardstick for others who worked with them.

But even if he did, the two measure success with different yardsticks.