Sentence examples for metrification from inspiring English sources

The decimal system, which has already conquered the coinage and led to the metrification of measures of weight and distance, suits the modern world better.

The narrator, an advisor to the "Chief Exec," the "C.E.," has been largely responsible for America's "total metrification," something he had suggested before the C.E.'s election as a remedy to America's low morale and productivity.

using business metrification systems.

"It's a battle between central government and local government," said Vivian Linacre, director of the British Weights and Measures Association, which maintains that the British metrification law is not legally binding.

"I said, 'You can put me on death row, but I'm not removing those scales.' " No one is saying that people like Mr. Fletcher, who weighs his meat in pounds and ounces with an electronic scale, have not had ample warning about the government's metrification program.

The Sun, which uses the word Eurocrat the way others might use the word Nazi, has started a "Save Our Scales" campaign in which it is regularly features small shopkeepers who have run afoul of the metrification program.

For people in the business profession to say that metrification suddenly happened -- they must have been on another planet or buried in the sand".

Metrification: Rumored to be under way in Crown Heights.

"Up to now, the English have gone along with the European stuff, allowing these kinds of idiocies to mount," said Tony Bennett, who is running the party's anti-metrification campaign.