"Four time," or "common time," is really a species of duple time allied to "two time," as it can hardly be thought of without a subsidiary stress at the half measure; i.e., on the third beat; thus: Duple, triple, and quadruple time measures i.e., those in which there are two, three, and four beats to a measure are known as simple time.
Restricting transferability is, at best, an uncreative half measure.
I think it is great to set goals, but I think "goal setting" is only a half measure, at best.
"The pressure on euro zone officials has ratcheted higher, and risks of failure are now too significant to jeopardize with half measures," analysts at Crédit Agricole CIB said.
Yet such plans and programs are at best only half measures.
Every President (and this goes for the leaders of the Soviet Union as well) has temporized, pushing half measures at best, spurring the arms race at worst or, in most instances, promoting some combination of the two.
Because widths were measured at half the measured oligomer height, we set y equal to r. Origin software (OriginLab Corp., Northampton, MA) was used to generate histograms and fitting curves in this section and all others.
"There were no half measures at my parties," she revealed.
At best, the proposals are half measures.
But doing so would leave him with a compromised Presidency, in which a small minority of Republican lawmakers knows they can bully him at will into half-measures on any issue, and that he'll settle for Pyrrhic victories with the rationalization that he has achieved incremental change.
The Federal Reserve Board's new rules aimed at protecting unsuspecting holders of debit cards from multiple overdraft fees are, at best, half-measures.
