Sentence examples for measure and make from inspiring English sources

Mr. Biden said he would still seek a vote on his version, but conceded that the day's developments would peel away Republican support for his measure and make him unlikely to succeed.

Elgin's workmen originally sought permits to draw, measure and make casts from the masterpieces of the Parthenon: it was a worthy aim, given it was, at the time, a ruin.

Add in a bag of potato chips and a beer or cocktail from the "swine bar" for good measure, and make sure to take a bacon praline for dessert.

(Some people, Mr. Doty said, might want to delay these intricate L cuts until after the easy tiles have been laid, in order to measure and make the cuts with more certainty).

The State Legislature approved the use of marijuana for medical purposes on Monday, and Gov. Martin O'Malley has said he will sign the measure and make Maryland the 20th state to legalize medicinal cannabis.

Since each amendment affected a different part of the bill and a different group of House members, the effect was to balkanize the entire Shays-Meehan measure and make it likely that defeat of one or more amendments would break apart the bill's delicate coalition of backers.

Gov. Rick Perry, who campaigned hard for the measure and made it one of his leading legislative priorities, was delighted with the result, his spokeswoman, Kathy Walt, said.

In our music example, that means going back to that first chunk of a measure and making it twice as big.

It would then determine preventive measures and make recommendations to state and federal regulators, hospitals and health care officials.

Soft tissue artifact (STA) distort marker-based knee kinematics measures and make them difficult to use in clinical practice.

CMA-based measures are easier to compute than CMG-based measures and make no assumptions about patterns of medication use, whereas CMG measures are computationally more intensive and assume that medications, once dispensed, are used as directed.