Sentence examples for gauge only from inspiring English sources

A gas gauge only indicates how close the gas tank is to full, much as relative humidity only indicates how close the air is to saturation.

The fact that some policy makers are willing, even eager, to move ahead with changing the COLA without having developed a more reliable gauge only feeds the impression that they are trying to get away with an unjustified benefit cut.

Robert Lutz Vice Chairman Chrysler My first car was a 1948 Volkswagen Beetle base model, with cable- operated drum brakes, four-speed manual transmission and one gauge only, which was a speedometer.

A comparison of model forecast accuracy using the operational rain gauge-adjusted radar rainfall input (GARR) is made against rain gauge only (RGO) input for a recent flash flood.

As the Whitianga rain gauge only records 6-hourly totals (Table 1) it is not possible to estimate return periods, based on rainfall intensities, for the early part of the storm and where local reports suggest that much of the rain fell within a less than 6-hour periodt, and likely centred over the most severely impacted Awaroa, Owera and Weiti catchments.

So Mr. McCain's prognosis for the recurrence of melanoma can be gauged only by talking to experts not connected with his case.

Moreover, because the knowledge of the various dinosaur groups is somewhat incomplete, the duration of any particular dinosaur can be gauged only approximately usually by stratigraphic boundaries and presumed "first" and "last" occurrences.

He maintains that a police force's performance -- or "profits" -- can be accurately gauged only by factoring in the "costs" of police operations: not only the financial costs, but the toll that police operations take on community relations, or how the department's use of authority impinges on citizens' liberties.

Strain measurements from traditional point-type gauges only reveal structural local information.

In a experimental setting using strain gauges in cadaver femora [ 7], strains increased at the strain gauges referring to the ROIs 2, 6 and 7. Since strain gauges only record local strain information on the outer cortical bone surface, they do not fully reflect the in-vivo loading, especially in the cancellous bone of the femur.

Money may not be Hollywood's only gauge, but for better or worse it is how business success is measured.