Sentences with phrase «become yardstick»

The lack of female employees in technical or engineering positions has become a yardstick for measuring efforts towards parity.

Yet what is more, since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the ne bis in idem principle has become a yardstick of the systemic impact of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (CFREU) on secondary EU law.

The poor and their fate thus become the yardstick for judging all social, political, economic, religious and missionary developments and programmes.»

That became the yardstick for success, not the drafting or passage of important legislation.

Bank buildings became the yardstick by which other buildings in a town or neighbourhood were measured.

Not exact matches

In an era in which organizations of all sizes have become preoccupied with training and certification standards, Yardstick Software, an Edmonton firm, has figured out how to profit from our fascination with measurement.

Yardstick's longer - term objective — what Kureluk calls the company's «big hairy audacious goal» — is to become the most recognized testing brand in the Commonwealth by 2030.

The ability to raise huge amounts of money has become an even more important attribute for those seeking the presidency, a yardstick to stratify the field of candidates long before the voters have taken a serious look at the field.

AAMI will remain in limbo until government watchdogs are asked to approve a drug developed to treat it, but one thing at least is clear: if it does become the clinical yardstick for deciding who should be prescribed memory - boosting drugs, the potential market will be astronomical.

Yet in too many places, it's clear that the yardstick has become the focus,» Duncan wrote in a lengthy blog post Thursday.

Since the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 refashioned the yardstick for judging schools, alternative education has at times become a silent release valve for schools straining under the pressure of accountability reform.

The technological tour de force that is the R35 GT - R comfortably became the performance yardstick in the alluringly accessible # 50k price bracket.

Later, she became the neighborhood girl who set up agility courses made of paint cans, yardsticks, and other «finds» from the garage for her Shetland Sheepdog to run through.

However, with the advent of LEDs and other types of lighting, that yardstick has become meaningless, and as a result, a bulb's brightness is now listed as lumens, which is a more accurate measurement of how bright it is, rather than how much energy it consumes.