In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.
According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature.
As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.
The transformation of the United States from a traditional republic to a democratic nation run in large measure by a single executive took a couple of hundred years.
If there were an exact and universal scale of punishments and crimes, we would have a fairly reliable and shared instrument to measure the degree of tyranny and liberty, of the basic humanity or malice of the different nations.
The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Really, the measure of a man is when they're tired and exhausted.
The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.
Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems.
G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric.
How does one measure the success of a museum?
The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.
But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.
Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.
By any measure, NBC is a corporation.