Sentences with phrase «took as his yardstick»

Not exact matches

While the linguist takes the parlance of average literate adults as the yardstick of usage, Gwynne's grammarian balances it with the best that has been said and written, John Bull and Samuel Johnson.

When we adjusted the gains made by students in each school to take into account a wide variety of individual and peer - group background characteristics, such as ethnicity, English language - learner status, family income, and student mobility rates, the yardstick's performance actually worsened.

As cited by Porter, the same thing happens when U.S. hospitals «do whatever it takes to keep patients alive at least 31 days after an operation, to beat Medicare's 30 - day survival yardstick.»

It's not too difficult to assess this if you take just the KDP Fund as the yardstick, although this does ignore completely the cash paid out to trad publishers on Kindle Unlimited.

Yes, lets take his «inspired by real scientists» speeches as the yardstick by which to judge the actual scientific evidence.