yardstick , also: yardwand

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.