In round 12, Ali regained the initiative, staggering Frazier again and measuring him for hard punishing blows.
He did not even know that he had been nominated as a torchbearer until his wife had to measure him for the official tracksuit last Christmas.
One of his recent characters has a pre-assassination vision "of his open grave, of a rectilnear black hole huddling in the ground, as empty as his life, and felt the darkness measuring him for his shroud".
Love affairs fail, the doctor is measuring him up for the morgue and teenagers are pirating his songs over the internet, but miraculously Wainwright is still standing upright.
Before emerging on the balcony to greet the crowd he had already been outfitted in white vestments of approximately the right dimensions – they come in S, M and L – but in the coming days Vatican-based tailors and cobblers will measure him up for the baffling array of ceremonious garments with which a pontiff needs to be equipped.
The choice of medication and other routes were discussed with the patient and we chose to avoid amiodarone in agreement with the cardiologist of clinic C. Consequently, the dose of sotalol was increased from 80 mg twice daily to 160+80 mg each day, and the patient was referred to our acupuncture clinic for treatment as an intermediate measure in preparing him for a second attempt of ECV.
Asked how success might be measured for him a year from now, Martino said: "That my players have a clear idea of how I want them to play, and that the fans feel a sense of identification with what they're seeing on the field.
He does have a puncture wound in his stomach; he repairs to the atmosphere-controlled base to tend to his injury, and — realizing that he's alone on Mars — thinks out, methodically and energetically, in the days and weeks that follow, the measures needed for him to survive, to make contact with NASA on Earth, and to prepare for his rescue.
The measure Mr. Corzine condemned him for supporting, the 1995 budget omnibus bill, contained cuts in Medicare spending over several years, for example, although Mr. Franks insists that he voted for the measure only because he knew it would not survive the more moderate Senate.
Miles Davis's work holds endless fascination for musicians and audiences; so many trumpet players continue to be measured against him, not necessarily for technique but for the weight of their ideas.
