Sentence examples for measure picked from inspiring English sources

However, the new-orders measure picked up.

Not to be outdone, Mittal paid $222 million for American hedge fund chief Noam Gottesman's Kensington home in May and, for good measure, picked up a $133 million property in the same neighborhood in June.

The measure picked up the support of prominent Democrats in the state, including Sen. Claire McCaskill and the mayors of St .Louis and Kansas City.

Simulation results and comparison with known biological examples indicated that the measure picked up horizontally transferred genes in majority of the cases (Table 1).

A cost measure picks up both multiple physician visits (as often accompany chronic disease) and hospital stays (typically indicating a more serious condition).

The key issue is whether such interval measures pick up changes in the severity, duration and frequency of depressive, hypomanic and euthymic episodes.

If those kinds of measures pick up 15 Democratic votes, they could poison the entire gun package, making it unpalatable for gun-control supporters.

As shown in the previous section, these measures pick up drug effects after short periods of treatment ranging from 1 to 4 weeks, and even after single doses.

Cutting tests were done using a test bed designed to measure pick cutting forces when cutting coal and rock.

For example, Angola could have a hunger rate of 62.4percentt or 29percentt or 14.2percentt, depending on which measure you picked.

But the McCain-Feingold measure has picked up such potency, largely because many Republicans signed onto it, that Mr. Bush must brace for the possibility it will reach him in one piece.