yardstick

When decisions had to be taken, she attempted to guess what Albert would have done and used this as her yardstick.

The yardstick, in other words, is not how a Palestinian group treats its own people but how it treats Israel.

Like continuity, it provides a yardstick against which we can measure ourselves.

That sense of sustained struggle provides the yardstick for judging Obama.

“$40 million, $50 million a year is excessive, no matter what the yardstick,” he says.

It's a musty old tradition, a sort of a remnant of the old days, that present day newsmongers use as a yardstick for comparisons.

The cutaway is made of a small piece of board, a cigar-box lid, an old yardstick or a piece of lath, which should be about 6 in.

They've got as many virtues as any Englisher that ever snivelled prayer and shortened yardstick.

I know I can squeal just like a rubber doll; but s'posin' they should let me fall off the yardstick—where'd I go to then?

The yardstick, the half bushel, and the coining of money are all devices to facilitate exchanges.