#measure

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Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.


George III


#bringing #colonies #country #due #left

It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.


Victor Francis Hess


#atmosphere #before #consist #cosmic #cosmic rays

Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.


Antony Hewish


#also #clouds #estimate #height #i

And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.


Lance Ito


#american public #cameras #certain #courtroom #hide

The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality.


Eric Liu


#after #aging #boomers #committing #community

The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.


Mary McAleese


#count #decency #economic #extent #just

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.


Mencius


#artist #bids #desire #forbids #him

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.


Frances Perkins


#came #depression #everyone #get #glacier

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.


Martin Lewis Perl


#back #book #equipment #graduate #graduate students

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.


Anna Howard Shaw


#equality #fox #goose #i #measure