Sentence examples for pleasant measure from inspiring English sources

Shooting the gulls "is surely not the most pleasant measure, but it's necessary to do something to control a situation that has been growing after many years of inaction," Maza said.

Serendipity, or pleasant surprise, measures the fraction of recommendations that are both novel (surprising) and relevant (interesting) [2, 16, 23].

I found myself shifting to military me, and it was not all pleasant: I caught myself measuring, judging and dismissing complaints as indicators of personal failings.

This Measure is a pleasant repast rather than provocative fare.

GOP leaders did their best to claim victories on the margins and to hail the measure as a pleasant return to a collaborative status quo.

Although the dreams were not always pleasant, they usually provided some measure of comfort; they helped mourners accept their loss and led to heightened feelings of spirituality and an overall sense of well-being.

"These measures are not pleasant, but they are necessary," he said, recognising that he had once pledged to reduce taxes.

The true character of a nation or person is not best measured on a pleasant day, but rather it is made manifest on days when all precepts are tested to the core.

However, it is always pleasant to have a benchmark to measure against.

This phenomenon, while not entirely pleasant, does at least confer some measure of defense against obesity.

The effect of image category (pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral) on each dependent measure was analyzed in separate one-way repeated measures ANOVA's (SPSS, v.16).