The 140,414 Americans who gave `` the last full measure of devotion '' to prevent disunion, preserved individual freedom in the United States from the dangers of anarchy, inherent in confederations, which throughout history have proved fatal in the end to all associations composed primarily of sovereign states, and to the liberties of their people.

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.

Economist Intelligence Unit, while admitting that “ there is no consensus on how to measure democracy ” and that “ definitions of democracy are contested ”, lists North Korea in last place as the most authoritarian regime in its index of democracy assessing 167 countries.

Now choose any consumer purchasing both goods, and measure his utility in such units that in equilibrium his marginal utility of money ( the increase in utility due to the last unit of money spent on each good ), MU < sub > 1 </ sub >/ p < sub > 1 </ sub >= MU < sub > 2 </ sub >/ p < sub > 2 </ sub >, is 1.

Thus the existing system for measuring distance, combined with a memory capacity to see where the target last was, is enough to measure speed.

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.

Looking back in 1883, Gladstone wrote that " In principle, perhaps my Coalwhippers Act of 1843 was the most Socialistic measure of the last half century ".

This last humiliation was due, in great measure, to the fact that he had availed himself of the permission to pronounce the papal censure on prominent followers of the new movement besides Luther, and had thus made his office a means of personal revenge.

Edward Burne-Jones observed, " here for the first time one can measure a bit the change that has happened in the last twenty years ".

It is proper ,' he observes in continuation, to derive our explanations from things which are obvious, and in some measure of daily occurrence, such as deluges, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and sudden swellings of the land beneath the sea ; for the last raise up the sea also, and when the same lands subside again, they occasion the sea to be let down.

She was holding her costume from The Dying Swan when she spoke her last words, " Play the last measure very softly.

It was also at this time that she at last began to get the measure of Angus, who, with an eye on his own welfare, returned to Scotland to make peace with the Regent, " which much made Margaret to muse.

The last measure of the march sometimes contains a stinger, a I chord played in unison on the upbeat after a quarter rest.

" Clave resolves in the second measure when the last stroke coincides with the last main beat of the cycle.

Often the last note of the measure ( ponche ) is held over the downbeat of the next measure.

The image of simple plane curve can have Hausdorff dimension bigger than one ( see Koch snowflake ) and even positive Lebesgue measure ( the last example can be obtained by small variation of the Peano curve construction ).

With the loss of its only fixed-wing flying unit, Malmstrom's runway was decommissioned as a cost-savings measure following departure of the last KC-135R aircraft in 1997.

The Fizeau experiment to measure the speed of light in water has been viewed as " driving the last nail in the coffin " of Newton's corpuscle theory of light when it showed that light travels more slowly through water than through air.

By the last measure, air transportation is three times more dangerous than car transportation and almost 30 times more dangerous than bus.

Regarding this measure of influence or success, the last, and only, definitive public statement belongs to Krishnamurti himself.

The harp, which plays a quarter note ( F sharp ) in the last measure, is omitted.

That girl last night, what was her name??

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

It was practically the last move that McBride made of his own volition.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.

My last impression as they led him off to a stockade was of his pale face

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

Incidentally, there was an Atlas firing last night.

Fortunately the hole was found at last and plugged.

At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.

The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

Trevelyan's Manin And The Venetian Revolution Of 1848, his last major volume on an Italian theme, was written in a minor key.

He had braved the elements and the enemy, but the strain, aided by the winter, was catching up with him at last.

`` This whole Washington venture was my last gesture, and it has failed.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.