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Перевод: yardstick

[существительное]
измерительная линейка; измерительная рулетка; метр длиной в один ярд; мерка ; мерило; критерий

Тезаурус:

1. Rates of progress are, though, difficult to compare without a common yardstick; obviously, evaluation of a country's progress towards its own goals does not aid international comparison, given the differing priorities placed on residential safety and environmental quality by different governments and, indeed, by different local authorities.
2. He does, however, remember the yardstick or strap which was then used to facilitate good conduct and discipline by the teachers.)
3. You've got to have a yardstick of some sort -"
4. It may be thought that without some measures of the quality of services provided, either by the yardstick (if such exists) of agreed views of what constitutes good practice, and/or through more refined measures of client outcome, the study would still fall short of the kind of conclusions about relative effectiveness that would be sought.
5. Engine stroke has an effect on torque but isn't the yardstick it once was.
6. It is, therefore, perhaps understandable that the law continues to cover truancy in its broadest sense, using regular attendance as its yardstick.
7. By today's yardstick these forages seem quaintly parochial.
8. "The main benefit is that I've enjoyed it; that's my yardstick."
9. More important problems are posed by the inevitable subjectivity associated with estimates of future outcomes and the absence of any yardstick by which the auditor can determine at what point the perceived variability in cash flows is such that it should be drawn to the attention of shareholders and other interested parties.
10. Policy in the Netherlands, with its strong pro-cycling ethos, serves as an obvious yardstick by which to judge UK cycling conditions, which were described in a recent report as worse than those in any other country in Europe bar one.
11. The APR takes into account any setting up costs of the loan, and is the best yardstick to use when comparing the costs of the different forms of credit.
12. Although the classic definition of a recession is two successive quarters of falling real GNP - implying that the recession started in the fourth quarter of last year - the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), America's official business-cycle watcher, uses a different yardstick: the monthly indicators for employment, industrial production, real business sales and real personal disposable income.
13. These were the right decisions, I believe, but had they adopted an average yardstick in 1935, rather than a maximum, and kept the yardstick in line with actual average production figures, the necessary steps taken would have appeared less dramatic.