I gauged it with the most powerful, private, physical symptom of my anxiety — a stab of sharp cold in the heart side of my sternum, as if an icicle had been lodged there.
With heavier gauges, it is very difficult to snap the bead in place when the ring is nearly closed.
She has bought 2,000 tickets through October 2002 for the show she's convinced will be the next matinee smash, "Mamma Mia!" To gauge how it will play with her people, she sent her bus driver to a preview.
Growers determine the proper time for harvest with instruments, gauging firmness with a penetrometer, and sweetness with a refractometer.
The defendant, he said, had been drinking and was "in an agitated state" when he picked up his 12-gauge shotgun, loaded it with two cartridges and walked from his trailer to Mr. Cook's house next door.
Just how remarkable this statement is can be gauged when you compare it with the instruction given by Susan Shabangu, minister of mines at the time of the 2012 Marikana mine massacre, to a meeting of police officers on the subject of how to deal with offenders: "You must kill the bastards if they threaten you or your community.
It was therefore also important to gauge satisfaction with current service provision.
Once a test is developed, it could take several years to gather enough data to gauge how well it identifies people with the disease and whether it is reliable in the early stages of the disease.
It's also hard to gauge, with low-probability, high-consequence events like a NEO strike, whether it's more appropriate to be paranoid or blasé.
At much lower levels, experts say, it's hard to gauge with accuracy what further benefits can be gained by eliminating trans fats altogether.
