Examples of using Yardstick in English and their translations into Russian
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The yardstick of civilisation.
Need for a common reference base and yardstick.
But on our yardstick, you don't seem to be thriving.
Mrs. Collins, if that's your son,I will eat my yardstick.
By any yardstick, our assessment report is a mixed one.
I was taught by a nun with a yardstick, and I turned out great.
By any yardstick, this cannot be deemed satisfactory.
The success of the Court will be the yardstick in the fight against impunity.
By that yardstick, the United Kingdom showed a healthy balance.
Human dignity should always, however, be a yardstick for these interpretations.
It is only this yardstick that shows that you do not waste your time.
The mainstreaming of ageing issues saw little progress by any yardstick.
So she picked up this yardstick, and she took it to Kenny good.
One yardstick of the Organization's success was the maintenance of sound financing.
Don't mess with me. I have a yardstick, and I'm not afraid to use it.
By that yardstick, cumulatively, global trends in military expenditures worldwide are both staggering and alarming.
War is natural to evolving man;peace is the yardstick measuring civilization.
Monogamy is the yardstick which measures the advance of social civilization.
The MDGs have become the international community's universal yardstick of success in the fight against poverty.
It has become the yardstick by which the United Nations is today being judged.
In the case of United Nations system organizations, the guidance approved by CEB is, of course, the yardstick.
Whatever the yardstick used, it must be transparent, rational, defensible and consistent.
The Secretariat recognized that profit could not be the yardstick of the success or failure of the Organization.
Vulnerability yardstick as a percentage of foreign reserves in selected Asia-Pacific economies, latest available data.
Following up the commitments made at the Summit will be the yardstick of the success or failure of the Summit.
A vulnerability yardstick developed by ESCAP indicates that the reserves of a number of countries are substantially exceeded by their overall gross external liabilities.
The turmoil in Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot be considered by any yardstick as one of the successes of preventive diplomacy.
Cannot be used as a yardstick for the determination of the present case, where the adverse consequences of logging are said to be of an altogether different magnitude.
However, the definition of core functions does not provide sufficient criteria or a yardstick for choosing the contract modalities.
But the yardstick for the admissibility of a reservation to a non-derogable right should be the specific provision entailing that right rather than the entire treaty.