Sentence examples for measures of greatness from inspiring English sources

Those criteria, not ideology, are the true measures of greatness.

It has become laughably inadequate to simply cite a player's batting average (Bonds led the major leagues this season with.370) and home run total (he hit 46, second to Sammy Sosa in the National League) as measures of greatness.

After all, the measures of greatness and civilization we are using today to talk about our past are neither great nor even civilized.

It should take the measure of greatness.

Sports writers talk about consistency as a measure of greatness.

Shiny discs aren't exactly the most reliable measure of greatness.

But consensus is less a measure of greatness than of social climate.

Quarterbacks face a different standard, however, a more quantifiable measure of greatness.

"It was a presidency that clashed with its own times, and in the end found some measure of greatness".

What separates Ishikawa is his recognition that the measure of greatness must come on a larger stage.

If ever there was a career in football which proved that trophies are not the only, or even the truest, measure of greatness, it was that of Tom Finney.