Sentence examples for measure against something from inspiring English sources

For a generation of people who have never seen the real impact of a disease like polio, or a deadly flu pandemic, there's a lingering sense that vaccinations are a preventive measure against something that's not really very likely to happen in the first place, and wouldn't be too bad if it did.

I didn't want to be measured against something like that.

Have we really come to believe that we can only measure ourselves in relation to others, and that value and goodness are only measured against something outside the self?

With little or no instruction, guidance, help and support, they're being told to take preventive measures against something not present and yet to come.

Q: How do the recent hacks on ethereum and the dao influence your company and have you taken any special precautions or measures against something similar happening to slock.it ?

The youthful Elizabeth instructs her older self: "You're allowing complicated people, overcomplicated people, to measure themselves against something unchanging.

When we call something tall, we measure it against something else, look at it from a particular perspective, and so on.

Behavior is not 100% predictable, so you have to match it against a measure of something known.

The FAA needs something to measure against and there are not enough data points available today to effectively evaluate UAS design and operations.

Likewise, new HTS assays will need to be validated against something (Hartung 2009a), and one possibility is to measure some end points against the Salmonella assay (Schoonen et al. 2009).

'We're not against something.