With heavier gauges, it is very difficult to snap the bead in place when the ring is nearly closed.
Even though the post-peak behavior was not fully measured due to damage of strain-gauges, it was not brittle.
On the other side of Oslo, the North Line (now named the Gjøvik Line) was being built as standard gauge; it was considered the new mainline northwards, and was to be connected to the mainline through Gudbrandsdal.
Mr. Owuo-Hagood's rationale for seeking out the Taliban is hard to gauge; it is also unclear whether he was motivated by ideological or other reasons.
Although subjective expectations cannot be scientifically gauged, it is too much to believe that telephone subscribers, under these circumstances, harbor any general expectation that the numbers they dial will remain secret.
The unemployment rate, a source of some reassurance, is a flawed gauge: It is based on a survey of households and includes self-employed people, but it does not count people who have given up looking for work.
The question they now face is whether they can scale up from clubs to big stages — and if their Bonnaroo set was any gauge, it's no question at all.
Some evidence exists to suggest that severe droughts are related to changes in global weather patterns; while the relationship between climate change and rainfall is hard to gauge, it is well established that higher temperatures reduce snowpack.
And while the effect of those endorsements is hard to gauge, it is nonetheless true that in all but one instance, the candidates who have received them went on to either win the caucuses or finish a strong second.
However, if broad-based physician frustration with healthcare IT is any gauge, it is not done nearly enough — or at least not well enough.
If contemporary wars are any gauge, it isn't going to be pretty when the pump don't work -- regardless of who took the handles.
