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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Southern opposition to the plan defeated the measure because they felt it was best to have his body remain at Mount Vernon.

The measure was defeated, and Congress instead formed a committee to investigate the circumstances that allowed Washington to be captured.

The measure passed by a 2 / 3s vote in Prichard, and also passed by smaller margins in Mobile and Chickasaw, but was defeated by the rest of Mobile County.

The measure was defeated by a vote of 78 to 62.

On November 2, 2010, area residents voted on Measure D. The measure was defeated by a margin of 76 % to 24 %.

The measure was defeated in Holton and across all of the state by about a 2: 1 ratio.

A measure that would have created a transit district was on the November 2004 ballot, but was defeated 53 to 41 percent.

A more complex case occurred however in 1949 when the First Inter-Party Government was defeated in a snap Dáil vote on a financial measure due to the absence of a number of Government TDs.

Speaking on this measure in the House of Lords, Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough said " I trust your Lordships will pause before you assent to an experiment pregnant with danger to the security of property …" Despite a brilliant speech by Romilly, all Bills were defeated.

The measure was defeated in the January 28, 2003 special election with 575, 846 votes in favor, 676, 312 votes against. Some fiscal conservatives felt that wasteful spending was more to blame than the tax defeat.

A year later, voters defeated a similar measure, Measure 30.

The measure was defeated in the November 5, 2002 general election with 371, 851 votes in favor, 886, 806 votes against.

On November 7, 2006, San Diego County residents defeated an advisory relocation which included a joint use proposal measure.

The measure was defeated by a 14-5 vote.

Fry got a measure of revenge against Washington, who had defeated Iowa in two of their three trips to the Rose Bowl under Fry, by defeating the heavily favored Huskies, 38 – 18.

In September 1995, King County voters defeated a ballot measure to secure public funding for a new baseball stadium.

The measure was narrowly defeated.

Under the rules of the Senate, a tie meant the measure was defeated.

Although the measure was defeated, it garnered substantial Bay Area media coverage.

There was much more opposition in the U. S. House of Representatives, where the same measure was defeated once, and then after a special procedural rule was applied, was passed by a 173 – 115 vote.

That following season's run in the Champions League saw them get some measure of revenge on Real Madrid, opening their group stage campaign with a 3 – 0 rout of the Spanish giants, they would go on to win the group, but were defeated in the first knockout round by eventual champions Liverpool F. C.

The measure, however, was defeated by the State Senate in March 2005 after the U. S. Department of Justice sent a letter to North Dakota attorney general Wayne Stenehjem stating that online gaming " may " be illegal, and that the pending legislation " might " violate the federal Wire Act.

The measure was defeated in the February 3, 2004 special election, with 418, 315 votes in favor, 691, 462 votes against.

Especially surprising to some observers was the margin by which the measure was defeated in Multnomah County.