Sentence examples for ordinary measure from inspiring English sources

Hannan, who is 45, is by no ordinary measure a front-rank British politician.

Many of these new patients spent years enjoying not just an ordinary measure of prosperity but the often-outsize financial, emotional and social rewards that accompanied the boom.

H.B. 2 may have seemed an ordinary measure of culture-war politics when the governor signed it, but the consensus position on L.G.B.T.Q.

(Russia cannot be understood with the mind, / She cannot be measured by ordinary measure: / She has her own particular stance — /All you can do is believe in her).

Bill Gates, the boss of Microsoft and Mr Jobs's nemesis by any ordinary measure of business success he is the one with the operating-system monopoly, after all would kill to get Apple's enthusiastic product reviews.

Evaristo da Veiga, one of his worst critics as well as a leader in the Liberal Party, left a statement which, according to historian Otávio Tarquínio de Sousa, became the prevailing view thereafter: "the former emperor of Brazil was not a prince of ordinary measure ... and Providence has made him a powerful instrument of liberation, both in Brazil and in Portugal.

"Everyone wanted to treat Greece with ordinary measures," Mr. Hollande said.

The first kind is the ordinary measuring of quantities relative to each other ('the great and small').

An ordinary measuring device would have flown apart in seconds, so the Geneva team had to make a clever--and controversial--substitution.

To take a step back, remember the "ordinary measures" of central banks around the world are to raise and lower short-term interest rates.

Before starting to pump water from the wells, the water level from the ground level was measured manually using an ordinary measuring tape.