Yardstick

As it has turned out to be, the newspaper press has not by any measurable yardstick been a mass medium, but rather, it has served for most of its history as an instrumentalized predominantly urban based, elite to-elite medium.

But the Publicity Secretary of the PDP in the state, Bemgba Iortyom, said the presidential election should not be used as yardstick for the governorship poll.

I go further and contend that what Mahatma Gandhi led in colonial India was a nonviolent rebellion and, by the same yardstick, Dr. Martin Luther King powered ahead for a second American emancipation of nonwhite Americans.

Money is often the yardstick that adults use to gauge how they measure up to peers, especially in America.

According to the judge, the card reader print out tendered by the appellants at the tribunal cannot be inserted into the constitution or electoral act which stipulates the yardstick for proving over voting.

Germany uses the yardstick of 50 new infections per 100,000 residents in the past seven days to determine if a country or region should go on its high-risk list.

Getting a big number of likes boosts their self-esteem and is a yardstick for their assumed achievement.

Her yardstick for career success, it sure isn’t money.

In a post on her Instastories, the actress was shocked on why social media posts have became the yardstick for determining who is wealthy and who is poor.

The recent arrest of some Nigerians in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates for fraud, particularly Ramoni Igbalode, known as Hushpuppi* should not be a yardstick in any way to judge and stereotype Nigerians who are excelling globally.

Through the narrative of Jinnah and Partition, he measures Pakistan, again, by a psychological yardstick, while India’s policies are assessed through its perceived interests.

A trip to Wolves will offer an important yardstick as to Tottenham's progress under Mourinho, especially their defence which has conceded 11 goals in his six games at the helm.

But it was only when Hall of Fame boxing MC Michael Buffer couldn’t get an introductory word in arseways after ‘Bray, Wicklow, Ireland’ that you began to realise this was to be another yardstick night in her ascent to a new kind of stardom.

Development will be our yardstick for choosing who goes to plot 1. We did it on double K, LPM, RB, MCS and ECL.

Fairly or not, the band has long been as a yardstick for suckitude in whimsical polls alongside things like lice, cockroaches, and… Donald Trump.

For one solid yardstick, look no further than the attempt by Ben Sasse to obtain unanimous consent for the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act in the Senate last night.

Just place two yardsticks on the counter on either side of the dough ball, and work the rolling pin over the dough until it reaches the height of the yardstick.

Merkel wants security standards to be the yardstick, rather than singling out any one company.

One key yardstick is governance.

The Japanese boat is a rough counterpart to PLAN diesel boats, so use it as a yardstick.