Sentence examples for making a measure from inspiring English sources

Descendants of Lothar von Trotha, the architect of that genocidal scheme, joined the conversation, not to divert it into arid guilt, but to help in making a measure of shame productive.

HM Treasury was excluded because, as a result of repaid loans from banks, its 2010-11 spendisg is expected to be negative, making a measure of percentage cuts meaningless.

However, students began the unit with fairly high scores measuring their interest in how science knowledge guides ethical decision making (a measure of relevance), and these scores changed little postunit.

"We're not making a measuring device," he says.

In addition, Hewlett contends that this practice made a measure of profitability called gross margin look stronger than it really was.

Referring to "only 1%" makes a measure seem stingy, encouraging disagreement – but there is no mention made that the benefit shift is a real-terms cut, something many voters might not understand if not spelled out.

Arguably, these are the key properties that would make a measure useful in the clinical context.

SFE makes a measure which represents well the chemical nature of each polymer coats or film from the viewpoint of its water-repellent performance.

Make a measure of the distance between these intervals.

But the Lowndes County experience cannot be made a measuring rod for the whole of America" (King, 49).

Make a measuring line perpendicular to the midpoint of the baseline extending two feet out from either side of the baseline.