Adopting the empiricist approach is no more rewarding, in the final analysis; although the antithesis positions remain securely lodged within "nature's own resources," they can never measure up to the demands of reason's ideas.
"The hall's sound quality, designed in an age when the science of acoustics was as yet unborn, simply didn't measure up to the demands of a modern orchestra and an audience attuned to hi-fi stereo recordings". To create a better acoustical environment, Levin devised an "eyebrow" of sound baffles that projects out over the proscenium apron to bounce the music out to the 900 seats.
It is aimed to expedite establishing a fast-growing, high-yielding, high quality, stable and productive timber plantation base to measure up to the demand for timber and its product in the national economic construction and social development.
He certainly measures up to the task.
Teachers who fail to measure up to the new demands may find themselves in a different job, or on lower pay.
The leading characters in this performance simply did not measure up to the composer's demands.
Once an adult starts to badger a child with lots of questioning and demands for "why" they feel the way they do, a child will close up and feel that they aren't measuring up to your demands.
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities.
Measuring Time is both a historical novel that "measures time" in the sense of comparing historical periods, and a psychological study of a man who must "measure up" to his brother and the critical demands of a society in crisis.
It makes zero sense for us to hold our principles hostage, demand that other nations that do not measure up to our standards hew to the ideals we whimsically abandon, and then pretend that that is some sort of bargain.
The key point was that once we stopped demanding that groups measure up to our impossible definitions we would lose the temptation to conclude that groups suffered from an ontological deficiency, that they were merely 'perspectives upon the world', ontologically no superior to the products of Othering.
