Precisely at the moment when it has lost its vision the mind of the community turns out from itself in a search for the ontological standard whereby it can measure itself.

An acoustical interferometer has been constructed and used, with helium gas as the thermometric fluid, to measure temperatures near 4.2 and 2.1 Af.

It has thus been a significant factor in the conservation of social values, though also in some measure, an obstacle to the creation or diffusion of new ones.

The ceaseless effort to understand and measure the distance mankind has traversed since its primitive anthropological status offers a more durable sort of drama.

Since the removal force is a function of coating thickness, a differential transformer pickup has been incorporated into the instrument to accurately measure film thickness.

However much football has been over-emphasized, the public likes to measure its collegiate favorites by the scoreboard, so, while Yale need never give its record a thought again since outscoring its opponents 694 to 0 in the season of 1888, Dartmouth had to wait until its championship team of 1925 for national recognition.

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 ''.

Traffic frequently has failed to measure up to engineers' rosy estimates.

The arithmetic mean has several properties that make it useful, especially as a measure of central tendency.

* Hence, the set of algebraic numbers has Lebesgue measure zero ( as a subset of the complex numbers ), i. e. " almost all " complex numbers are not algebraic.

Although MacDougall's results varied considerably from " 21 grams ", for some people this figure has become synonymous with the measure of a soul's mass.

Though the are has fallen out of use, the hectare is still commonly used to measure land:

As a unit of measure, an acre has no prescribed shape ; any perimeter enclosing 43, 560 square feet is an acre in size.

It has therefore been argued that astrology began as a study as soon as human beings made conscious attempts to measure, record, and predict seasonal changes by reference to astronomical cycles.

* RC — Runs created: statistic that attempts to measure how many runs a player has contributed to his team

* RP — Runs produced: statistic that attempts to measure how many runs a player has contributed

In scientific contexts the Btu has largely been replaced by the SI unit of energy, the joule, though it may be used as a measure of agricultural energy production ( Btu / kg ).

The Anabaptist tradition was largely ostracized by the other Protestant parties at the time, but has achieved a measure of affirmation in more recent history.

Visible light has energy on the scale of 1 eV and is used as a scattering probe to measure variations in material properties such as dielectric constant and refractive index.

This measure taken by the short-lived governmental authority would be popular and long-lasting, for since then no government in Cambodia has tried to romanize the Khmer language again.

In practical statistical analysis, the terms are often used before one has chosen even a preliminary form of analysis: thus an initial objective might be to " choose an appropriate measure of central tendency ".

, two years after its implementation began, the security situation of inside Colombia has shown some measure of an improvement and the economy, while still fragile, has also shown some positive signs according to observers, but relatively little has yet to have been accomplished in structurally solving most of the country's other grave problems, possibly in part due to legislative and political conflicts between the administration and the Colombian Congress ( including those over the controversial project to eventually re-elect Uribe ), and a relative lack of freely allocated funds and credits.

This is totally spurious, since no matter who measured first the other will measure the opposite spin despite the fact that ( in theory ) the other has a 50 % ' probability ' ( 50: 50 chance ) of measuring the same spin, unless data about the first spin measurement has somehow passed faster than light ( of course TI gets around the light speed limit by having information travel backwards in time instead ).

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.

This measure apparently had no great success, since French voyager Pierre Gilles writes in the middle of 16th century that the Greek population of Constantinople was unable to mention any name of the ancient Byzantine churches transformed in mosques or abandoned.

To aid the survey, Gauss invented the heliotrope, an instrument that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight over great distances, to measure positions.

We never become Christ, but we are called upon to become fully Christly or Christ-like, to emulate our Master's great words and works in some measure.

Although WMAP provided very accurate measurements of the great angular-scale fluctuations in the CMB ( structures about as broad in the sky as the moon ), it did not have the angular resolution to measure the smaller scale fluctuations which had been observed by former ground-based interferometers.

" Although quite complicated, this was a carefully conducted study in which the investigators went to great lengths to eliminate bias and to rigorously measure outcomes.

In the great affair of the Union in 1707, while protesting against the completion of the treaty till the act declaring the Scots aliens should be repealed, he refused to support the opposition to the measure itself and refrained from attending parliament when the treaty was settled.

The peculiar rapidity of Homer is due in great measure to his use of hexameter verse.

The author of 2 Chronicles generally praises his reign, stating that the kingdom enjoyed a great measure of peace and prosperity, the blessing of God resting on the people " in their basket and their store.

The change in seriousness of purpose between the Eclogues and the Georgics of Virgil was in a great measure the result of the direction given by the statesman to the poet's genius.

In 1848, the General Conference stated, “ when the Church has collected ... a great population born within bosom, she cannot fulfill her high mission unless she takes measure to prevent this population from being withdrawn from under her care in the period of its youth .” The first two American bishops of the Methodist Church, Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury, opened a preparatory school in Abingdon, Maryland in 1787.

This measure enriched his treasury for a time, but alienated a great body of the nobility and gentry, revived old factions, and created new ones.

The day after their doubleheader loss, the Pirates traveled to New York's Polo Grounds, where Roberto, having just achieved some measure of vindication against the team that let him get away, now had a chance to compete against his two great baseball heroes, both his boyhood idol Monte Irvin and his recently acquired friend and mentor ( not to mention teammate, with the 1954-55 Caribbean Champion Santurce Crabbers ), Willie Mays, both of whom now patrolled the outfield of the defending World Champion New York Giants, with whom the Pirates now began a four-game series, hoping to pick up their first win of 1955.

Being of great historical and architectural significance, the Old City went through a lot of renovations and there is still some measure of restoring to be done.

It has raised Gladstone to a great political elevation, and, what is of far greater consequence than the measure itself, has given the country assurance of a man equal to great political necessities, and fit to lead parties and direct governments.

It involves a great departure from the methods of political action established in this country, where reforms, and especially financial reforms, have always been considerate and even tender ... I do not yet see the ground on which it can be justly held that any one description of property should be more heavily burdened than others, unless moral and social grounds can be shown first: but in this case the reasons drawn from those sources seem rather to verge in the opposite direction, for real property has more of presumptive connection with the discharge of duty that that which is ranked as personal ... the aspect of the measure is not satisfactory to a man of my traditions ( and these traditions lie near the roots of my being )... For the sudden introduction of such change there is I think no precedent in the history of this country.

If so, all I can say is, it is a new Liberalism, and not the one that I have known and practised under more illustrious auspices than these, under one who was not merely the greatest Liberal but the greatest financier that this country has ever known — I mean Mr. Gladstone ... Gladstone ranks as the great financial authority of our country ... Mr. Gladstone would be 100 in December if he were alive, but, centenarian as he would be, I am inclined to think that he would make very short work of the deputation of the Cabinet that waited on him with this measure, and that they would soon find themselves on the stairs, if not in the street.

It was not, however, to these sources that Beza was chiefly indebted, but rather to the previous edition of the eminent Robert Estienne ( 1550 ), itself based in great measure upon one of the later editions of Erasmus.

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.

In 1959, in a letter to Kazan, he writes, “ Some day you will know how much I value the great things you did with my work, how you lifted it above its measure by your great gift .”

The victories of the Greeks during the great Persian war had the effect of enfranchising their kinsmen on the other side of the Aegean ; and the battle of Mycale ( 479 BC ), in which the defeat of the Persians was in great measure owing to the Ionians, secured their emancipation.

The triumph of Prussia was in a great measure due to its fuller application of principles of tactics and discipline universally recognized though less universally enforced.