Sentence examples for side of a scale from inspiring English sources

Others cite the Jewish teaching that if you put one human life on one side of a scale, and the rest of the world on the other side, the scale is balanced equally.

When a Washington Post journalist asked Daniel Zemel, a Washington rabbi, what he thought about federal agencies putting a dollar value on human life, the rabbi cited a Jewish teaching explaining that if you put one human life on one side of a scale, and you put the rest of the world on the other side, the scale is balanced equally.

Imagine 80 people standing on one side of a scale and 3.5 billion people on the other side.

Jewish sages say that if all the problems of the world were on one side of a scale, and poverty was on the other, poverty would be heavier.

In 1992, in a letter to the New York Times, Manchester wrote that, in his opinion, many Americans believed that the JFK assassination conspiracy theories were true because, "[t]o use an odd metaphor...if you put the murdered President of the United States on one side of a scale and...[Lee Harvey] Oswald on the other side, it doesn't balance.

Using a standardized finger pressure of 2 kg, palpable tenderness were performed of eight anatomical neck/shoulder locations in the left and right side on a scale of 'no tenderness', 'some tenderness' and 'severe tenderness'.

Below are the industries targeted and the pain factor for each side on a scale of 1-5, with 5 the most painful.

The last time there was an antiwar demonstration in New York City I said, 'Why not have a hundred little ones?' " He said that working for peace was like adding sand to a basket on one side of a large scale, trying to tip it one way despite enormous weight on the opposite side.

In addition, an empirical correlation for estimating the radiative properties of a homogeneous gas mixture, Kirchhoff's law, Lambert Beer's law and the discrete ordinate method are employed to simulate radiative heat transfer in the furnace side of an industrial-scale steam methane reformer.

We support the idea that valence is best represented by a bipolar dimension, with a negative pole on one side of the scale and a positive pole on the other, and neutral valences around the scale's center.

On a happier side of the scale voters gave a somewhat puzzling boost to "The Ides of March, George Clooney's political drama; it had meager ticket sales and has so far been of minor note on the awards trail, but it walked away with four Globe nominations.