Well, the U. N. Security Council resolution 1973 is very clear. It says all necessary measures to be taken to protect civilians and civilian areas. I mean, that to me is very clear.
Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.
A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
. . . . there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.
A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.
Rail as they will about 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism.
If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
People are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact. The teachers who are making the greatest difference go far beyond meeting standardised test measures. They aspire to truly level the playing field for their students, which means inspiring a love of learning, fostering the highest levels of critical thinking, building perseverance in working towards academic excellence, and so on.
Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it.
I write about how in Midland, the mayor instituted water conservation measures like restrictions on car washing. He made a point though that they were only "suggestions" and not government telling people what to do. But then his constituents got very ticked off at the sight of their neighbors breaking the rules and demanded that they be made into actual laws with penalties.
The inventor and the research man are confused because they both examine results of physical or chemical operations. But they are exact opposites, mirror images of one another. The research man does something and does not care [exactly] what it is that happens, he measures whatever it is. The inventor wants something to happen, but does not care how it happens or what it is that happens if it is not what he wants.
There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
Celestial criteria measures service, not status.
The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
Christianity is not engrossed by this transitory world, but measures all things by the thought of eternity.
Am I the only one who measures time using songs? “Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that’s not to long!
It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.
Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures.