In putting together her Miu Miu show — nearly two weeks after her main collection was shown in Milan — Ms. Prada would have had time to gauge the shifts on the runways, and to seize on a noisiness that has been tugging at the margins.
Analysts asked a number of questions that, collectively, seemed to be gauging what the shift to mobile means for Google's advertising business.
Knowing how to gauge the constantly shifting mood of the authorities at any given moment, judging how far to push the boundaries – "working the angles", as Osnos calls it – is therefore key to surviving in the system.
Beatriz's case has become a test to gauge how expansive the shift toward looser restrictions will be.
While none of these approaches can necessarily identify the precise nature of an interaction, they can be used to gauge the impact of shifts in environment or assemblage on the function of an organism.
But despite decades of complaining from New Yorkers, taxi officials have never been able to gauge the true extent of the shift changeover's effect on service, until now.
The election is drawing national attention (Sarah Palin, in a Twitter message, gave her support to Justice Prosser on Friday), in part because it offers an early gauge of public reaction to the shift last November, when Republicans swept into state legislatures and governorships in Wisconsin and elsewhere and began pressing for changes to bargaining rights for labor unions.
MR. Evensky said it was hard to gauge the effects of a shift in ownership at Private Capital – or at asset management firms in general.
This eventually meets a center waterfall of instruments bracketed in metal-flecked plastic, and a number of real metal accents frame the gauges, accent the wheel, detail the shift knob, and so on.
In its broad-gauge tracing of the shifting contours of our modern landscape, it resembles C.P. Snow's 1959 book, Two Cultures, about the growing chasm between the arts and the sciences.
