Through the weighing of different views we take measure of where we stand and where we must go.
He has been sent for to make a coat for Prince Frederick, and when he came, was ordered to go and take measure of him in the room where the King was.
But we can't properly take the measure of Veronese without a trip to Europe.
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To take the measure of the candidate from the press coverage, Obama remained an inspirational but somewhat inaccessible figure.
Those who take the measure of his last mission will see his foresight.
Take the measure of iOS for example, dropping from 29.2% to 28.5%.
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Mr. Obama must take a measure of responsibility for those constraints.
Candidates still have to interact with the people they seek to lead, and ordinary citizens still have opportunities to take the measure of candidates in person.
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In these works you can take the measure of the man and the tastes of his age, shared by Huntington and Frick, whose own museums opened in 1927 and 1931.
During the peak of the influenza season, the state of New York had to take the extraordinary measure of declaring a state health emergency in order to activate laws allowing pharmacists to vaccinate children against influenza.
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Unfortunately, the SEC has not disclosed much in the way of personal information about the whistleblower, so it is difficult to take a full measure of what the individual may have contributed to any SEC investigations.
Waiting for the job recovery might be a good time to take a broader measure of the material well-being of Americans.
Security Council resolution and the need to take a range of measure to protect the Libyan people.
You know, historically, Memorial Day weekend is when you begin to take measure, and fans of these teams will say wow.
He added that his body wishes to close parts of a stadium where "episodes of racism take place" before taking the more drastic measure of playing matches without fans should incidents persist.
As readers of this site are aware, although THE CONTRARIAN TAKE posits M2 as a grossly misleading measure of the money supply, the mainstream does not.
He said that until this happens a measure of devolution should take place, with members of the currently suspended assembly taking a role in developing departmental policy, so as to increase the "accountability of the administration in Northern Ireland".
And society may take other measure to rectify the unfairness of equity holders doing so much better (higher capital gains taxes or estate taxes come to mind), but this is far more likely in the case where equities actually have done much better, and it would mean giving back only a portion of their outperformance.
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This is a return-on-investment measure that is adjusted to take account of the distortions that can be caused by inflation, different asset ages and lives, and different depreciation methods.
Take a look below at a classic cyclical measure of the market, the Dow Jones Transportation Average, or Dow Jones Transports.
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So if there are three possible drugs, all we need to do in order to figure out which one is right for you is to take 900 of you, put 300 of you on each drug for a few months, measure the effects on your health, both positive and negative, and compare the results.
"Unless we take the necessary steps to measure and reduce the amount of methane escaping from the entire supply chain, natural gas engines could very well be worse for our climate than diesel, " Krupp told the truck industry summit.
She also needs to stir the fire when she faces the crowds of curious folks who want to take her measure.
Payback period: This is a rough measure of the number of years it would take the system in each example to pay for itself.
The investor who is educated and wise enough to measure the risk they can take on with the amount of emerging market stocks they hold in their portfolios may find annual returns that pass 20% in the ten-year term.
For the moment, the researchers have got what they want, but the government has said that the amendment is a temporary measure, and will be reviewed annually to take account of progress in electronic record-keeping, anonymisation and encryption of data which might eliminate the need for identifiable information.
"Though the ICRC and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent are doing everything possible to assist civilians affected by the violence, it is up to the parties to the conflict to take every feasible measure to spare the civilian population the effects of the fighting, " said Marianne Gasser, the head of the ICRC delegation in Syria.
They want to provide good care, but they also measure their success by the amount of revenue they take in, and, as each pursues its individual interests, the net result has been disastrous.
"We call on the government of South Sudan to carry out a full investigation of the incident, punish the guilty and take every measure to guarantee that this will never happen again, " Lavrov said, in a statement on his website.
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