Sentence examples for measure by itself from inspiring English sources

While Mr. Obama said the bill also should provide "the groundwork" for Congress to achieve additional deficit reduction next year through overhauls of the tax code and spending for fast-growing entitlement programs, chiefly Medicare, Congressional Democrats said the likely measure by itself would do nothing to put such efforts in motion.

In other words, the existence of non-farm income serves as an adaptation measure by itself and may delay other responses.

The measure by itself is not that informative but computing the pre-matching ℒ 1 and comparing it to the post-matching ℒ 1 will show if the matching was successful.

Because of the unbalanced dataset (25% β-turns), Qtotal is a poor measure by itself, as it is possible to achieve a Qtotal of 75% if all residues were predicted to be non-β-turns.

Plasma corticosterone is a static measure by itself and does not provide information concerning the dynamic nature of the system (Hinson and Raven 2006; Norris 2000).

The second limitation is inherent in any study of mRNA: this measure by itself does not provide a definitive answer about the actual rate of synthesis and degradation of the encoded protein, the factors that actually control the concentrations of the corresponding trophic factors or factors within the cell.

The mind does the actual measuring ("measures by itself") and "makes itself a measure" or norm in judging and taking the measure of each item across the range of things it knows.

That Nicholas is using "measuring" in this sense is brought home to us by the metaphor he employs in the passage quoted above from chapter 9 where he says the mind is "a living compass that measures by itself".

On the other hand, if adult survival is high there is not a real need for compensatory measures but rat control can be important as a preventive measure and by itself, to restore the biotic interactions between other island communities, such as plants and insects.

The PDR is an excellent metric since the CH can measure it by itself accurately without much computational overhead, and PDR can identify the presence of all types of jamming attacks both at physical and data link layers.

She came to think that what people needed to heal themselves was a psychological "prime" — something that triggered the body to take curative measures all by itself.