But, here again, comparative benchmarks are lacking, and we do not know, in any case, what measure of profoundity and intensity to expect from healthy, young, secure and relatively inexperienced persons ; ;

Before the Draft Act was passed Baker had confidentially briefed governors, sheriffs, and prospective draft board members on the administration of the measure -- and the confidence was kept so well that only one newspaper learned what was going on.

A measure of how hot the stock was, can be found in what happened to it on the market as soon as trading began.

We should not allow the image of an immanent end brought about indirectly by our own action in the continuing human struggle for a just endurable order of existence to blind us to the fact that in some measure accelerating the end of our lease may be one consequence among others of many other of mankind's thrusts toward we know not what future.

" And if he says something that contradicts what is found in the standard works ( I think that is why we call them " standard "— it is the standard measure of all that men teach ), you may know by that same token that it is false ; regardless of the position of the man who says it.

A method is needed to measure technical performance objectively and quantitatively, and that is what EVM accomplishes.

" Post-left anarchist Bob Black in his long critique of Bookchin's philosophy called Anarchy after leftism said about post-left anarchy that " It is, unlike Bookchinism, “ individualistic ” in the sense that if the freedom and happiness of the individual — i. e., each and every really existing person, every Tom, Dick and Murray — is not the measure of the good society, what is?

Marx, on the other hand, uses a measurement analogy, arguing that for commodities to be comparable they must have a common element or substance by which to measure them, and that labor is a common substance of what Marx eventually calls commodity-values.

In 2008, a bitter controversy over euthanasia had parliament pass a measure which would restrict the veto powers of the grand-duke, who had opposed the pro-euthanasia law on the grounds of his private Christian conscience, much like what had occurred in Belgium in the early 1990s on the topic of abortion.

A person who has extremely frequent or a suddenly increased sex drive may be experiencing hypersexuality, but there is no measure of what is a healthy level for sex.

There is no measure of what is a healthy level for sex desire.

Baba described the Avatar as " a gauge against which man can measure what he is and what he may become.

The goal of NLP evaluation is to measure one or more qualities of an algorithm or a system, in order to determine whether ( or to what extent ) the system answers the goals of its designers, or meets the needs of its users.

Even more sensitive measures exist and the question of what measure is best for specific card games is still open.

Where the objective of the comparison is to look at differences in living standards between countries, using a measure of per capita income adjusted for differences in purchasing power parity more accurately reflects the differences in what people are actually able to buy with their money.

In Tibet, polyandry has been outlawed since the Chinese takeover of the area, so it is difficult to measure the incidence of polyandry in what may have been the world's most " polyandrous " society.

A valid measure is one that measures what it is intended to measure.

( It should be noted, however, that the MBTI is not designed to measure the " work self ", but rather what Myers and McCaulley called the " shoes-off self.

These systems differ in what they measure, what unit of measurement they use, and where the size 0 ( or 1 ) is positioned.

The spectral class of a star is a designated class of a star describing the ionization of its photosphere ( what atomic excitations are most prominent in the light ), giving an objective measure of the photosphere's temperature.

During the last ten years, different organizations have tried to measure and monitor the proximity to what they consider sustainability by implementing what has been called sustainability metrics and indices. This has engendered considerable political debate about what is being measured.

* Seshat – goddess of writing and measure, wife of Thoth

* Seshat, goddess of writing and measure, and a wife of Thoth

There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.

That word was withheld when the need of it seemed the measure of his despair.

The measure was instantly taken, as always in such cases, of public men at many levels.

A shielded thermocouple was used to measure the upstream temperature of the transpiring gas.

To measure the surface temperature of the anode plug, the surface was scanned with a pyrometer.

I make no attempt to measure the enduring satisfaction and material well-being of a man who went to work on graduation from high school and was highly successful in the business which he entered.

He told the committee the measure would merely provide means of enforcing the escheat law which has been on the books `` since Texas was a republic ''.

The $6,100,000,000 measure, which was passed last Monday by the Senate, provides for forty-year mortgages at low down-payments for moderate-income families.

The `` belaboring '' is of course jocular, yet James was not lacking in fundamental seriousness -- unless we measure him by that ultimate seriousness of the great religious leader or thinker who stakes all on his vision of God.

Moseley, after discussions with Bohr who was at the same lab ( and who had used Van den Broek's hypothesis in his Bohr model of the atom ), decided to test Van den Broek and Bohr's hypothesis directly, by seeing if spectral lines emitted from excited atoms fit the Bohr theory's demand that the frequency of the spectral lines be proportional to a measure of the square of Z.

Jean-Robert Argand introduced the term " module " ' unit of measure ' in French in 1806 specifically for the complex absolute value and it was borrowed into English in 1866 as the Latin equivalent " modulus ".

This measure, which was intended to diminish opposition, was paralleled by the introduction of new courtly dignities, like that of panhypersebastos given to Nikephoros Bryennios, or that of sebastokrator given to the emperor's brother Isaac Komnenos.

Johnson had been so obsessed with the measure that he was said to be " a little cracked on the subject ".

Before the Tennessee electorate voted on secession, Johnson, at his peril, toured the state, speaking in opposition to the measure, contending it was unconstitutional.

Remarkably, it seems that a measure blocked before the assembly voted on it did not need to go back to the assembly if it survived the court challenge: the court was enough to validate it.

* Customary acre-The customary acre was a measure of roughly similar size to the acre described above, but it was subject to considerable local variation similar to the variation found in carucates, virgates, bovates, nooks, and farundels.

Andreas Capellanus ( Capellanus meaning " chaplain ") was the 12th-century author of a treatise commonly known as De amore (" About Love "), and often known in English, somewhat misleadingly, as The Art of Courtly Love, though its realistic, somewhat cynical tone suggests that it is in some measure an antidote to courtly love.

The aim of the expedition was to measure the length of a degree along a meridian, close to the pole, and compare the result with a similar expedition to Peru, today in Ecuador, near the equator.

This was the first attempt to measure the intensity of starlight with a tool other than the human eye.