Sentence examples for american measure from inspiring English sources

But time, an American measure of it, often shapes the way it acts.

The United Nations Security Council approved a resolution late tonight endorsing a Palestinian state for the first time, supporting an American measure that also calls for an immediate cease-fire in the worsening 17-month Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Iran's central bank is already subject to a particularly tough American measure, signed into law last month, that threatens to undermine the Iranian economy by penalizing foreign banks and other companies that transact business with the central bank.

Higher doses of vitamin D are safe, insists Ebers, who says that at a meeting of neurologists and other scientists working on vitamin D in Chicago last year, they were all taking 4,000 international units (the north American measure, which equates to 100 micrograms) a day – and so were their families.

Instead of pounds, dollars or euros, we could as easily measure carbon in "Momme" (a unit of mass for measuring pearls in Japan – 1 momme = 10 fun), or "Cat" (an old American measure of the minimum fatal drug dose per kilo of cat).

Biographer Colin Nicolson observes that Bernard's presence as an advisor to the ministry "cast a shadow over virtually ever American measure regarding Massachusetts" that the ministry considered, because of Bernard's role in breaking trust between the colonists and the London government and the subsequent radicalization of Massachusetts politics.

The measurements are very much equal to an American measuring cup.

The findings and the American measures in response will probably be announced in early January, he said.

But while this brought a suspension of the U.N. sanctions, it didn't affect the parallel American measures.

American measures introduced after the crushing of monk-led protests last September hurt Burmese financial interests in Singapore.

President Bush this year called for voluntary American measures to slow, but not halt, growth in emissions, saying the strict timetables of the treaty would have harmed the economy.