#measures

Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

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The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#clock #death #drop #each #fever

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

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The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#believe #disarmament #further #important #important step

The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#acknowledged #adequate #against #british #colonies

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. ↗

— Daniel Webster

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The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth. ↗

— Benjamin Whichcote

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We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but to help the global economy as well, and that's why it's so critical that measures in those packages avoid anything that smacks of protectionism. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#anything #avoid #critical #economies #economy

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. ↗

— William Henry Harrison

#government #making #measures #poor #poorer

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

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