Thus, a new yardstick is needed to measure success.

FAS It's been interesting. A few years back, the yardstick culturally was Black America.

These generally take men as their yardstick, investing them with higher status than women.

The problem is that the current context provides no yardstick for assessing when a national policy stops being cooperative.

Since a basic yardstick of any scientific work must be reproducibility, such lack of transparency is a serious source of concern

He hoped that the generosity of such contributions would form the yardstick for enlargement of the membership of its Advisory Commission.

There is no absolute yardstick on how to behave in these impossible circumstances, so people must judge every election on its merits.

On the surface, this may appear to be an objective yardstick. In reality, GDP growth is as malleable as an official s academic credentials.

Another common measure used to judge a Chinese official s merit is his ability to deliver economic growth. On the surface, this may appear to be an objective yardstick.

In draft article 4, the Special Rapporteur had made the intention of the parties to a treaty the main yardstick for ascertaining its susceptibility to termination or suspension.

However, it also underscored the areas where politicians are fumbling in the dark without decent research, and created a yardstick against which we can now measure policymakers spending decisions.

In the framework of enhanced coordination and accountability, the action plan will be utilized by intergovernmental and inter agency bodies as a yardstick against which to assess periodically the United Nations system's efforts.

The Beijing Platform for Action continued to be the yardstick by which Sri Lanka measured gender balance and equality, and the country had strengthened its programmes in support of gender equality and women's development.

Thus, they are the key components of a framework, which was lacking, and a yardstick, a benchmark that States can use to chart a course in the direction of addressing pressing needs in a coordinated and concerted manner.

If this is an important yardstick for measuring the standards in the implementation of the rule of law, democracy and minority protection, not only do we have a status quo in Kosovo and Metohija, we have a general regression.

While acknowledging and welcoming progress in the reduction of nuclear weapons, Austria urges nuclear weapon States to fully implement all 13 practical steps, which serve as an important yardstick against which progress in the fulfilment of article VI can be measured.

The Office has also modified its yardstick for the number of person hours to complete an investigation case from 250 person hours to 340 person hours, based on the investigations undertaken by the regional investigators during the period from July 2003 to June 2004.

He in fact quoted the United States Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in the Krupp case in 1948 which stated that this principle had been transformed into the legal yardstick to be applied if and when the specific provisions of the Convention do not cover specific cases .

However, we do not believe that the mere exchange of the Commission on Human Rights for the proposed Council would address perceived deficiencies in the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, unless the proposed Council adopts a new culture of treating all cases of violation with a standard yardstick capable of attracting wide support and generating confidence.