The phrase
"same yardstick" means using the same standard or measurement to judge or compare things. It suggests treating everyone or everything equally and fairly.
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«You can measure opportunity with
the same yardstick that measures the risk involved.
Jesus doesn't measure sucess by
the same yardstick as we do.
The turning point of the game was taking off Koscielny, as the leader of the team he had to fall on his sword for such abysmal performance, but I just wish Wenger will measure himself with
the same yardstick and take responsibility for the team's failures when like Koscielny today, he fails to motivate his players, it is no coincidence that Mustafi has still not lost a game with us, it's called leadership!!
Let the President bring out the corrupt elements in his party and use
the same yardstick he's been using for other people on his party's members.»
Middle - school teachers use
the same yardstick, but only in their specialized subject.
One of the goals of the Common Core was to make comparisons across states possible by measuring all students with
the same yardstick.
That law relies more on absolute comparisons of test scores, so it sometimes seems as if Ben Franklin High School, which accepts only high - achieving students, is measured on
the same yardstick as schools in the state - run Recovery School District, where the average student starts well below grade level.
No matter how we arrive at that future and regardless of whether we are traditionally published or indie, readers will judge the work with
the same yardstick: DO I LIKE IT?
Wirefly's Bob Kovacs runs the AnTuTu Benchmark test to see how the two phones compare when measured against
the same yardstick.
It's inevitable that video games would be judged by
the same yardstick.
But I do think that they should measure their own expertise by
the same yardstick.
We calibrate these so that investors can use
this same yardstick they use in buying stocks or bonds.