So how does your income measure up to your neighbors'?
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I thought I'd never measure up to my own expectations.
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Albus believes he will never measure up to his famous father.
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It's a book that doesn't quite measure up to its ambitions.
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Will it measure up to people's memories of the Broadway show?
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In many ways, they are failing to measure up to this responsibility.
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And, yes, nothing in life will ever measure up to this moment.
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I never met another man I thought could measure up to him.
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Can the Summer of '19 measure up to the Summer of '69?
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But industry watchers forecast sales growth won't measure up to last year.
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The system can measure up to 20 people in its current form.
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How do they measure up to cable and network television or film?
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So, does apple cider vinegar measure up to its positive internet reputation?
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Sadly, nothing in the script can measure up to this rich darkness.
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In fact, it really didn't even measure up to Biden meets Palin.
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How does the self-proclaimed "greatest living artist" measure up to Pablo Picasso?
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To measure up to the fictional suit, this one had to deflect to .
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Trump often privately laments that his current lawyers don't measure up to Cohn.
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"They don't know if they measure up to their risk tolerance," she said.
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Benjamin Clementine Talented, but unfortunately can't measure up to his archnemesis Benjamin Tangerine.
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And ever since, they've found it a difficult standard to measure up to.
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A gentle two-step isn't going to measure up to an intense, hilly run.
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"Today we don't measure up to those who are attacking us," a lawmaker said.
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They were bland, somewhat stale, and definitely didn't measure up to restaurant-style chips.
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Once he gets in the Oval Office, he will measure up to the job.
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Your puzzle is yours, and you don't have to measure up to anyone else.
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"I don't measure up to what society tells me should be the ideal," she said.
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That requires immense dumps, hills of stinking trash that measure up to 50 meters tall.
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As a young man, he wondered if he would measure up to his distinguished lineage.
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The "Ex's and Oh's" Grammy nominee felt pressures to measure up to conventional beauty standards.
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For instance, is it because you simply want to "measure up" to guys in porn?
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But Simon's number apparently did not measure up to President Obama's high score of 213.
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How does our collective response to this moment measure up to the response in 1918?
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How does Joaquin Phoenix measure up to the actors who have played the Joker before?
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All in all, a fine meal, but it did not measure up to the first.
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But how did Tuesday's event measure up to the all-time best of prefight hype?
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As a young man he wondered if he would measure up to his distinguished lineage.
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But the next Disney chief executive will not only need to measure up to Mr. Iger.
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Unsurprisingly, there are some cringeworthy items to be found that don't measure up to contemporary cultural understandings.
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Lattice – Set and track KPIs Employees don't know how their goals measure up to the bigger picture.
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Here's a look at some claims from the candidates and how they measure up to the truth.
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And if the most abrupt global warming episode of the Cenozoic doesn't measure up to the present?
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Its tallest building is 98 feet high, so it doesn't measure up to New York or Chicago.
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Students are typically spanked with paddles that measure up to two feet long and several inches wide.
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The stories were lovely, but didn't measure up to her real-life love story with Austin Butler.
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Many of these quarterbacks had less experience or statistically did not seem to measure up to him.
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She talks to a single mom and one who feels she can't measure up to her own mother.
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The oval features are cyclones, the largest of which measure up to 600 miles (1,000 km) in diameter.
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The only person putting pressure on her to measure up to her 21-year-old sister is herself.
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We must measure up to their standards, and do the things that they had done, if we're capable.
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The web can measure up to four metres wide and three metres (4.37 yards and 3.28 yards) thick.
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My discomfort stems from feeling like I don't measure up to what I "should" do for my partner.
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Except for the set, though, the production did not measure up to the more mysterious and disturbing film.
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It had failed to measure up to his ambitions, for this was supposed to be an important book.
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They can measure up to 29 inches (22017cm) at the shoulder and weigh more than 25 pounds (200kg).
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You say you like where you live, but how does it measure up to the rest of the country?
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Speaking to CNN at the Capitol on Wednesday, King said Tubman's accomplishments didn't measure up to the seventh president.
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I can't think of a thing to offer that could possibly measure up to the magnitude of this question.
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There is an ideal of a big brother I have in my head that I never measure up to.
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But cooked fruit, no matter how expertly preserved, can never measure up to the flawlessness of its fresh counterpart.
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They don't measure up to the problem: an economy that no longer delivers a consistently rising standard of living.
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Estimates range from about $1,000 for sketches to around $60,000 for sculptures that measure up to nine feet tall.
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At 5 feet 8 inches tall and 172 pounds, Webster would never measure up to Big Joe in height.
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The threadbare flag and littered lawn don't measure up to the story Americans told about themselves and their heritage.
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That sound you hear is millions of straight men howling in frustration that they'll never measure up to Gosling. Drag.
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So, we decided to test them ourselves and see how the company's dupes really measure up to the original versions.
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But the drinks we have don't even begin to measure up to the treats Starbucks serves up in Hong Kong.
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Bardem plays the character with bone-chilling perfection that even his A-list co-stars could not measure up to.
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It is among the longest snakes captured but didn't quite measure up to the current Guinness World Records holder, Medusa.
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According to the report, coverage offered by plans in the Marketplaces simply don't measure up to what's offered under CHIP.
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But then I was beginning to realize the imaginary could never quite measure up to the unattainable perfection of reality.
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The father of evolutionary theory thought women were naturally inferior and could never measure up to male intellect or achievement.
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The biggest suites, located at the bow, measure up to 1065 square feet, with an additional 160-square-foot balcony.
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It is an impossible request that fashion shows measure up to the horror, but likewise impossible to ignore the confluence.
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True, today's House Judiciary Committee — on either side — doesn't begin to measure up to its counterpart of the Nixon era.
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At some level, no president can measure up to George Washington for the simple reason that he was the first.
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Download speeds measure up to 10 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps for uploads, and refills start at $15 for one week.
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Afterward, I still don't measure up to the glossy magazine beauties with their unblemished faces, but at least I feel relief.
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The animal's characteristically ginormous ears — which can measure up to six inches long — are often found quite literally to the ground.
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These streamlined ridges measure up to 6 miles long (10 km) and were moulded on the beds of fast-flowing glaciers.
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A few animals even got arrested, although none of them quite measure up to 2016's pelican in a cop car.
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Mnuchin's presence in the campaign reveals how the qualities Trump loyalists projected on their hero don't measure up to the truth.
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Each ship lights up and is incredibly detailed, and can measure up to even the most critical Star Wars fan's criteria.
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But they won't do it on talent alone, because they don't measure up to the other playoff teams in that department.
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Could Styles measure up to his bandmates Zayn Malik and Niall Horan, both of whom embarked on solo careers last year?
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Who's been rocking the dance floor right now and could he measure up to the shimmering likes of the bygone past?
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A single ship can sell for 250,000 to 1,250,000 Iraqi dinars (roughly $210 to $1,050) and measure up to 1.7 meters.
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"Today we don't measure up to those who are attacking us," said Georges Fenech, a Republican lawmaker, who led the inquiry.
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My biggest disappointment with the expensive phone is that its battery life didn't measure up to Google's claims in my tests.
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But still, some basics of life don&apost measure up to how useful or exciting they were once hailed to be.
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Miami Fruit in Florida grows "long-neck" avocados that can measure up to 3 feet long and cost almost $50 each.
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Confident people don't waste time sizing people up and worrying about whether or not they measure up to everyone they meet.
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If the amount of work and components used measure up to customs requirements, those products could be labeled Made in Italy.
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" Another student asked Warren how she could measure up to Trump's bullying: "In particular, are you afraid he can caricature you?
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On the same note, because everyone's skin reacts differently, it's impossible to say whether your glow will measure up to mine.
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That was also the only year in history with an El Niño event that can measure up to this year's Godzilla Niño.
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And will it measure up to our bold prediction that it will become the best-reviewed Star Wars film of all time?
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These facilities "hear" vibrations created by disruptive cosmic events using laser tripwires in tunnels that measure up to 2.5 miles in length.
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"We're disappointed anytime a customer has an experience that doesn't measure up to their expectations," United said in a statement to PEOPLE.
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I turned her down, still feeling like I couldn't sleep with other women, like no one could measure up to my ex.
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A farm in Florida is growing "long-neck" avocados that can measure up to 3 feet long and cost almost $50 each.
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As it stands, Seamless and GrubHub don't exactly measure up to Caviar and UberEats and instead serve as restaurant aggregators at best.
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While 25 notched a respectable performance in both measures, with a 75 on Metacritic, it didn't measure up to Lemonade at all.
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"Section 702 needs review, and many parts of it—including the backdoor search—do not measure up to Wray's justifications," the EFF writes.
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Because Fuchs is a "regular" person, we begin to question why our own lives don't seem to measure up to hers in comparison.
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"Obviously, it's been her life's dream to find a man who her father would approve of but never measure up to," said Metz.
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Trump is not the first President to come into power with a team that doesn't seem to quite measure up to Washington's demands.
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A physical key is pretty easy to set up but, okay, maybe you don't need to measure up to life-or-death cybersecurity.
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As expected from this category of phone, the Black Shark 2 has specs that measure up to, or exceed, the best flagships around.
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You don't interrupt something that words may not do justice to, unless those words measure up to the beauty of what is unfolding.
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The attorneys defending the health insurers aren't the Brooklyn Dodgers, but they can't measure up to DOJ's on the ground merger trial expertise.
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Biden, while he may project greater compassion, may not measure up to whatever new requirements the electorate will demand of the next president.
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She is expected to measure up to Gordon Lish, who, she notes, earned the nickname "Captain Fiction" during his tenure in the 1970s.
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There have long been doubts among automakers and consumers about whether cars made in China could measure up to those produced in America.
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For Robertson, the newer stuff, made more cheaply (and oftentimes in China), doesn't measure up to the more expensive, water-cooled lasers of yore.
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But to Michele, the comparisons were just that: They motivated her, but she by no means felt pressure to measure up to their success.
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Our sources say everyone involved in the decision believes Ariana can measure up to Beyonce ... and they believe it will resonate especially with women.
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But some Democrats are quick to note that the recent bout of criticism doesn't measure up to the president's "enemy of the people" rhetoric.
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The implications of a verdict that does not measure up to his expectations remain unspecified but ominous possibilities are left hanging in the air.
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Fortunately, we live in the age of multimedia chat, but the sickly blue light of a Skype window doesn't measure up to a hug.
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"Cricket Fever" follows a perennially successful cricket club, the Mumbai Indians, during a season when players struggled to measure up to their usual standards.
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You've got lots of options to choose from, but in our book, few pet feeders measure up to the PetSafe Healthy Pet Simply Feed.
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Roberts was attached to Homecoming before they started to write it, so they knew they needed a co-lead who could measure up to her.
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The stunning four-seater roadster boasts jaw-dropping numbers, that if they measure up to Musk's claims, will make it the world's quickest production car.
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Lee and Jackie were extremely competitive growing up, and Lee often said it was hard for her to measure up to the future First Lady.
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The blue whale can measure up to 100 feet long — the length of three school buses — and weigh 200 tons (that's eight DC-9 airplanes).
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Having never seen Mr. Ohno perform live myself, I could only ask, not answer, an obvious question: Did the copy measure up to the original?
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While it could never measure up to Silicon Valley, "Detroit is exploding with opportunities and we wanted to be part of it," Mager, 32, says.
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If there's a guy who wants to read a 5,000-word piece by a pedigreed writer, then the fashion has to measure up to that.
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If Sturtevant's pieces don't measure up to their models, as some critics have argued, it's beside the point — or, arguably, it is the artist's point.
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We're all on social media and more conscious than ever of how we measure up to other people, and if people like us or not.
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"People like me end up putting ridiculous pressure on ourselves to measure up to these business leaders that seem to always be working," writes Eikenberry.
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The additions and upgrades are impressive, but whether they actually measure up to the steep price (or work at all) is what has people talking.
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You have to measure up to what you said you were going to do, but I'm optimistic that it'll be a valuable thing to try.
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Nuala O'Connor from the Center for Democracy and Technology said the United States doesn't measure up to global peers when it comes to data privacy law.
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Yet with apologies to Pennywise, having watched those hopes sink more often than float, if they measure up to the anticipation, they'll be bucking the odds.
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People constantly fail to measure up to the beautified, filtered, or otherwise cherry-picked moments of the lives of influencers, but continue to grind away trying.
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While Congress is not currently on this ideal schedule, how does it measure up to this standard in the total number of days worked in Washington?
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Looking back, does it feel kind of nice that you aren't always having to try to measure up to that first album from 20 years ago?
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As a student myself, I find myself anxious a lot because it is difficult to measure up to the high bar that is set for us.
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"We want our Haitian clientele to think, 'Yeah, this is amazing,' even if it might not measure up to Mom's or Grandma's food," Ms. Agg said.
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Indeed, the movie — filmed over the past three years — delves into the pressures Aoki has put on himself for years to measure up to his father's success.
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Buying Fitbit could be a play to make Google services a greater part of customers' lives and measure up to Apple in the health and fitness space.
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We know the U.N. sometimes fails to measure up to our expectations, particularly when it and its specialized agencies have provided a platform for anti-business views.
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They can measure up to about 3 feet (1 meter) long when their 10 legs are extended and can weigh up to about 9 pounds (4 kg).
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A confused, over-stretched film that wrongly fancies itself as smart, "Bank Chor" wants to be "Dog Day Afternoon" but doesn't even measure up to "Dhoom 3".
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He went on to express how intimidated he and his bandmates were in having to measure up to the raw, meteoric energy of their fellow Long Islanders.
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The essence of cultural colonialism is that you demand of yourself that your work measure up to standards that cannot be shared or debated where you live.
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Phoenix's performance has drawn praise from critics and film festivals alike, but how does he measure up to the previous Jokers of the big and small screen?
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In January, Trump seemed incensed after photographs and public transit statistics proved that his inauguration crowds didn't measure up to former President Barack Obama's 2009 swearing-in.
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Small colleges that once struggled to measure up to the likes of Boston University and Minnesota can now find enough skilled players to contend for national championships.
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The athlete Heinel said did not measure up to the school's standards was hardly a borderline athlete, much less one of the fakes she and Singer created.
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If Esparza's intimate recourse to Google Maps nudges at anything, it is at future considerations for how tools like this measure up to processes of localizing ourselves.
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However, this issue is not just important for women in larger bodies, but for all women, because nobody can measure up to our societal beauty ideal — it's unattainable.
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The film itself was certainly an interesting experiment, but the experience also became tiresome and some reviewers felt the tale didn't measure up to other Black Mirror episodes.
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It's a separate question about whether ProPilot Assist can measure up to Super Cruise or Autopilot, both of which set the bar fairly high for driver assist systems.
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Almond butter (AB) is king of the organic aisle, but how does it actually measure up to our childhood fave PB in terms of nutritional and health benefits?
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"Nothing J.J. Watt has achieved in his career, or might still achieve, will measure up to what he did for Houston," says MMQB Editor-in-Chief Peter King.
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But alas, the irreplaceable memories and loyalties of a passionate fanbase don't measure up to a team's bottom line, as the story so often goes in pro sports.
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Here are those leaders' questions about the new American president, per NYT's Peter Baker: How will Trump's 'America First' strategy measure up to the UN's 'world first' agenda?
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But his showing in Arizona made a mockery of some media assessments that at last the President had managed to measure up to conventional standards of presidential behavior.
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But how does Walmart, a store with much less of a focus on home improvement, measure up to Home Depot or Lowe's in terms of finding basic items?
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Now, in the 85033st Century, the role and effectiveness of the American press must be scrutinized to assess whether it can truly measure up to its constitutional promise.
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"Part of me thought I had been accepted due to a stroke of luck, and that I would not measure up to the other students," wrote one upperclassman.
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Again, this most likely stems from an insecurity that your partner is still connected with their ex or that you're never going to measure up to their past partners.
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Yet while the returns on "Fantastic Beasts" have been good so far, they don't quite measure up to the performance of the movies in the first Harry Potter series.
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Harry Potter fans know that real-life Christmas, though usually fun and exciting, may never quite measure up to a Christmas at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
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We may never measure up to the champ, but at least we can take inspiration from the way she tirelessly encourages Hart — and rolls her eyes at his whining.
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After inexplicably losing to South Carolina this weekend, Tennessee has three straight losses, including a blowout to rival Alabama, the team the Vols are trying to measure up to.
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Now, she is opening up about the extremes she took to measure up to the body pressures rampant in the online fitness community — and how she finally overcame them.
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A Samsung representative told me the new watch will feature eight LED sensors for heart rate monitoring and an improved accelerometer that can measure up to 32Gs of force.
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Two employees who spoke to Business Insider and wished to remain anonymous said the company's response is "disappointing" and doesn't measure up to the steps taken by other companies.
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The delays on Wednesday did not quite measure up to the "Summer of Hell" that many commuters have come to expect, but it did leave some briefly in purgatory.
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How can a woman measure up to be all that is expected of her: a likable "girlboss" who does spins every day and eats as much pizza as she wants?
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The books about your industry are even more fun to read with industry-specific inside jokes on page, and it's fun to compare how they measure up to real life.
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Perhaps they believed The Post's depiction of a true story of intrepid journalists speaking truth to power didn't measure up to the similar approach of recent Best Picture winner Spotlight.
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Another new feature exclusive to the Series 4 is hard fall detection, thanks to a new 800Hz accelerometer and gyroscope that can that can measure up to 32 G-forces.
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Smart wireless routing system eero finally ships to more than 993,000 early buyers today but does it measure up to the promise of better, faster, stronger Internet throughout your home?
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That means it is, in large measure, up to Western politicians and business people—bankers, lawyers, property brokers—to determine how deeply the vory are able to infiltrate their societies.
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Snowfalls could measure up to a foot in the Northeast, with the greatest amounts in the Adirondacks, the Green Mountains of Vermont and northern Maine, according to the Weather Service.
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Starting at the height of the dot-com frenzy, he has repeatedly called for perspective: Developments in information and communication technology, he has insisted, just don't measure up to past achievements.
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I wanted to see how the more affordable Pamu Slides measure up to AirPods, so PadMate sent me a pair to review, which I used with my Samsung Galaxy Note 9.
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Would it measure up to the New England lobster dip and Philly cheesesteak queso the F&W Test Kitchen made on Mad Genius Live to gear up for the Super Bowl?
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To test just how thick your own bubble may be, PBS has created a 25-question quiz that determines how your real-world experiences measure up to the rest of America's.
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" And even when arguments do occur in today's game, Scott said, the younger, newer managers don't measure up to their predecessors — "especially the one who are all about numbers and sabermetrics.
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But it's hard to relegate a writer as formidable as Woolf to connective tissue, nor would it be fair to ask a debut author to measure up to her mature style.
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In Anthem, the studio aims to deliver a story that can measure up to a resume that includes RPG classics like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Dragon Age: Inquisition.
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" United Airlines acknowledged the incident in a statement to PEOPLE, with a spokesperson saying that the company is "disappointed anytime a customer has an experience that doesn't measure up to their expectations.
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Can an offense really be impeachable and measure up to the constitutional standard of high crimes and misdemeanors if a President is quite happy to go out and commit it in public?
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The announcement follows the release of a report by the Office of the Inspector General that found that for-profit prisons did not measure up to prisons run by the federal government.
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The Late Show team, in an attempt to write a joke to measure up to this turn of events, came up with one that was a little much even for the host.
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Indeed, if there is a problem with this well-researched, carefully assembled book, it's not that the author is a man; it's that his approach doesn't quite measure up to his subject.
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It's a real shame, because you can comfortably rest the Gram 17 on your lap for hours of TV or movie viewing, but the sound just doesn't measure up to what you see.
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USMCA "takes some positive steps but doesn't measure up to being able to make more good-paying jobs now and going forward," said Josh Nassar, legislative director of the United Auto Workers union.
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"No amount of pain you go through with surgery can measure up to the mental pain you feel on a daily basis," says Mahogany Phillips, 49, a transgender woman in New York City.
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GPS devices provide traffic warnings, and a lot of them also now connect to a phone via Bluetooth for "live traffic," but they don't measure up to Google or Waze in that regard.
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It is regrettable when the personal lives of inductees do not measure up to public standards and expectations; however, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce does not remove stars from the Walk of Fame.
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Knowing nothing I might cook could ever measure up to the memory of that shockingly spiced patty, the warm, elastic naan or the pleasure of that first bite, I haven't dared to try.
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The strands can measure up to 2 metres (2.19 yards) long, but have a diameter of less than 0.5 millimetres (0.02 inches), and can blow tens of kilometres away if the wind is right.
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As thrilling as that duel was, it does not quite measure up to this year's final, in part because it pitted two exceptional servers against one another, who offered fewer opportunities to break serve.
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In terms of overall picture quality, LG's cameras are plenty good, but don't measure up to the Pixel 2, Galaxy S23000, Huawei P26 Pro, or iPhone X in terms of detail and image processing.
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Speaking at a press conference Tuesday, Georges Fenech, the member of parliament for the center-right Republican party who headed the investtigation committee, said that the country did not "measure up" to today's attackers.
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These aren't tiny temblors either: They measure up to 5 on the Richter scale, and if you've been through an earthquake you know that's enough shaking to send you diving under a table or desk.
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The political community — which includes the press, activists, elites, and voters elsewhere — is anxious to see how the actual Iowa results measure up to their expectations, to help them better understand who can actually win.
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William Jackson, a young Air Force lieutenant, helped with some of the first testing near the craters, using a hand-held alpha particle counter that could measure up to two million alpha particles per minute.
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Even if Netflix brought back Firefly, which has long been the Smiths reunion of hoped-for-but-probably-not-gonna-happen TV events, would it actually measure up to that one-season wonder's best episodes?
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Fancy tech like Oppo's 10x optical zoom is nowhere to be seen, and the Oppo F11 Pro (despite the "pro" moniker) is not a device that can measure up to the most powerful flagships of today.
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"Audiences want to see superheroes onscreen that reflect their own diversity, and when that does occur, there's a heightened level of excitement and nervousness that the movie is going to measure up to expectations," Cohen said.
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" The statement continues, "It is regrettable when the personal lives of inductees do not measure up to public standards and expectations; however, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce does not remove stars from the Walk of Fame.
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Smart bulbs don't quite measure up to a pair of custom Yeezys on the coolness scale, but the new compatibility will make the lights much more useful on the path to making connected homes cheaper for everyone.
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We support initiatives identified by the tribes themselves as having Indian Country-wide impact for economic development, and likewise would measure up to the Chamber's greater goal of fostering free enterprise and economic growth across the country.
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"Guests will be able to stand shoulder to shoulder and measure up to one of the most powerful men in the world – and even grab a selfie when the figures arrive in their locations," the museum said.
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To see if their new button-ups measure up to the older versions (some of which are getting phased out), we wore the Aero Short Sleeve ($95) and women's Juno Tailored Dress Shirt ($95) in NYC's heatwave.
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Brian Seibert In all performing arts, but in dance especially, present performances of past works often fail to measure up to contemporaneous accounts, the memories of those who there or the longing of those who missed out.
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There were even suggestions that the current group of players would measure up to the 1998 Yankees team that won 291 games in the regular season and then swept the San Diego Padres in the World Series.
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For that reason, what is most interesting in the conversation surrounding any white leading man is not his strangeness, not the much-lingered-on details that ostensibly show how he fails to measure up to an ideal.
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But while Vivian and Jane are okay with that (that's the aforementioned "one note" — they're just normal and chill), Renee is obsessed with her failure to measure up to the women she sees in magazines and at SoulCycle.
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"I never met another man I thought could measure up to him," she tells PEOPLE of Dragon, the son of Hollywood composer Carmen Dragon and a former keyboardist for the Beach Boys whom she first met in 1971.
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Giant squids are some of the biggest invertebrates on the planet, big enough to tangle with a sperm whale, and can measure up to 65 feet (20 meters), according to a 2016 paper looking at their maximum length.
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Analysts on Tuesday expressed concern that the vehicle's driving range may not measure up to the Tesla Model X. Audi officials said they do not have official range estimates for the e-tron SUV under U.S. testing procedures.
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While, it may imply that there is an existing standard in terms of physical appearance that individuals with conditions like Crouzon syndrome do not measure up to, I choose the word "disfigurement" because of the power it holds.
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Still, some longtime party figures privately grumble that Felix does not measure up to Etienne, whose body has lain in a Brussels morgue for two years because the government feared its repatriation to Congo would kick off demonstrations.
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In the movie, Kayla's relationship with social media is neither entirely productive nor entirely destructive — YouTube is simply another vehicle for expressing herself, and Instagram is just another realm where she feels she doesn't measure up to her peers.
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We got the West Virginia Senator Tuesday in D.C., where our photog asked how Trump's border address later in the evening would measure up to Ellen's 'Game of Games' ... and which one should take precedent for the American people.
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He has easily won the Bundesliga title in his three seasons there but has lost in the semifinals of the Champions League every year, failing to measure up to what his predecessor, Jupp Heynckes, did — win the European title.
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Earthjustice challenged the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's decision to hand management of the wolves over to Wyoming and a federal judge agreed with us in 2014, ruling that Wyoming's wolf plan did not measure up to minimum conservation requirements.
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"Both in terms of resources and authority, what the F.T.C. can do clearly doesn't measure up to the scale of the problem," said William McGeveran, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School who specializes in privacy law.
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The rats, which can measure up to three feet (0.9 m) and can spot TB in samples of human mucus, were introduced in Tanzania in 2007 by Belgian charity APOPO as an alternative to more costly and slower traditional chemical testing.
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The pictures I do manage to grab of him where he is staring at the camera don't seem to measure up to the cuteness I know he is capable of or the staggering quality of celebrity cat photos on Instagram.
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I can see the appeal of the neighborhood's quiet streets and its proximity to the Moscow River, but it didn't quite measure up to the pure opulence that I saw in some of the ultra-wealthy suburbs of the city.
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" He added: "It is a mystery to me why he is continuing to support Mr. Trump, who, in my estimation, does not measure up to a Tim Scott, in terms of his values, or in terms of his clarity of thought.
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A detached businessman more comfortable with masquerading as a leader than being one, he failed to measure up to the standards set by his predecessors who acknowledged the loss and grief, and offered words of comfort to those involved in tragedies.
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Considered the final act in "The Trilogy," alongside Disintegration and 1982's Pornography, the record may not fully measure up to those staggering heights but when it works, it shows that Smith is still capable of making good on his ambition.
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But to some, she fails to measure up to the expectations of what a "true" victim is: She seems detached, her account has minor inconsistencies and she's not coping with the trauma the way those around her think she should.
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This, too, was "conveniently expansive and conveniently specific," but it also zeros in on a real human insecurity: the fear among many well-meaning and comparatively well-off liberals that their lifestyles and attitudes didn't measure up to their egalitarian ideals.
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Until museums stop accepting support from donors like these — donors whose values do not measure up to the institutions' highest ideals — we will be forced to see Weinberg and other museum directors as facilitating a widespread scheme of image laundering.
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Clinton's efforts in the field simply did not measure up to Barack Obama's: Democrats were concerned throughout the campaign that Clinton was not assembling the "army of volunteers" necessary to get out the vote, and that worry may have been well founded.
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He chose cowboy hats, he explains, for their towering crowns (some measure up to eight inches), but he would flatten the brim and remove adornments like feathers and colorful ribbons to create an elegant, minimalist piece that defied conventions of shape and proportion.
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These colorful animals are often covered in a mix of maroon, purple, and orange, and can measure up to 36 inches nose-to-tail, which is double the size of the average grey squirrel you would spot in your backyard, reports The Independent.
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Although Prototype 2 outsold other Activision Blizzard titles in the month it was released, such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, it failed to measure up to the competition in the same period in 2011, namely Diablo 3 and Max Payne 3.
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I shared how difficult it was to let my then-7-year-old daughter bring a project to school she felt like she had put her heart into, but that I worried wouldn't measure up to what the other children might do.
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In many cases the games that fail to measure up to their corresponding broadcasts from 2015 have massive audience craters; meanwhile, the 2016 games that manage to out-perform their 2015 counterparts more often than not do so by only a modest percentage.
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Jack and Norman is a book that makes one wonder why it took so long for someone to write a full-length treatment of the whole mess—and then again, why it can't quite measure up to the personalities of the people involved.
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Trained as a theoretical neuroscientist, Ming has put a price on bias, saying there was a "tax on being different" that coerces outsiders to spend years more on training so as to measure up to a mainstream candidate in the eyes of recruiters.
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The steps add to momentum on the issue from European Union regulators and courts, in particular pressure to measure up to standards for inclusion on the EU's list of approved ship-breaking yards, which is due to be updated later this year.
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Students are realizing that the silly season is over – that if they have to go tens of thousands of dollars into debt, the college education they secure needs to measure up to the demands of the marketplace, not the doctrine of political correctness.
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When it comes to technical particulars of artworks, however, and knowing descriptions of process, Isaacson, whose other lengthy biographies include books on Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein, doesn't quite measure up to Forcellino, who has also written biographies of Michelangelo and Raphael.
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Amazon prompts strong emotions, and they were on full display Thursday — first a faith that the company will indeed measure up to outsize expectations to be the store that sells everything to everyone everywhere, then the sneaking fear that that might be a dream.
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In seeking to gain unfair advantages for their children, these parents have sent them the message that on their own they are simply not good enough -- that they don't measure up to their parents' and society's expectations without a little (or a lot) of help.
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" AIDS was ravaging the theater community, and Mr. Finn knew that when he revisited the characters after the nightmare interval of the 1980s, it would have to play a part — even if, as he thought, "there's no way I can measure up to the horror.
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I took my skeins of yarn outdoors on a sunny day with an infrared thermometer and found that Heat Wave did indeed measure up to the company's claims, emitting more heat than either Super Saver or a ball of 100% wool yarn in similar colors.
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Some of those benefits don't measure up to MoviePass's one-movie-per-day model, but some of the other benefits may be attractive to regular customers, like being able to reserve tickets ahead of time (instead of having to be within 100 yards of the theater).
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When one compares the character of John McCain with anyone else, one finds few men who measure up to the senator and the 85033,800 days of torture, beatings and broken bones that he, and most other American POWs, suffered at the hands of their North Vietnamese captors.
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When they got to the White House mess hall, he was unimpressed with the tacos, telling his predecessor, Shaun Donovan, the meal did not measure up to the Mexican restaurants he once owned in Charlotte, N.C., according to a person to whom Mr. Donovan related the encounter.
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Despite not having a relationship with her father until her teens, Joely reveals she followed in his destructive footsteps as she made her own way in Hollywood, landing roles on Broadway and parts in movies and TV, and occasionally feeling she would never measure up to her family's success.
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So Lady Gaga's Super Bowl halftime show didn't measure up to, say, the mind-blowing and near-mythic 2013 performance from Béyonce—or the notoriously phallic guitarwork of Prince's 2007 appearance, or the literal crotch-slam that was 2009's show from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
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Development is another key theme for the G20, but other leaders are likely aware that Trump has wielded foreign assistance as a stick, cutting off funding to countries like Honduras,Guatemala and El Salvador when they don't measure up to his demands -- and lowering our levels of foreign assistance in general.
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In addition, the trio discusses some of the Galaxy S8's features (no physical home button), the introduction of the voice assistant Bixby (Kara says the name sounds like a butler, Dan contends it's more the name of a cute little dog) and whether Samsung will ever measure up to Apple.
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"Anything short of firing Mr. Levandowski to get him to waive his Fifth Amendment rights and attorney-client privileges would put Uber at risk of contempt, since it would fail to measure up to the Court's command that Uber exercise every lawful power it has over Mr. Levandowski," it says.
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For all that is known about Mr. Sessions, one thing that is unclear is how he will measure up to what he has declared to be a crucial test of an attorney general's qualifications: the willingness to stand up to the president, who in this case plucked him from obscurity.
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A petri dish of Martian bacteria may not quite measure up to Ray Bradbury's copper-colored creatures with telepathic skills ("The Martian Chronicles"), but it's more than enough to sustain Mars as the most explored planet after Earth, with about 45 flybys, orbits and landings since the 1960s, and many to come.
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Cougars, which measure up to 8 feet (2.44 meters) long from head to tail and can weigh as much as 140 pounds (63.5 kg), were once the most widely distributed land mammal in the Western Hemisphere, before extermination campaigns and habitat destruction saw them eliminated from roughly two-thirds of their original range.
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In the days that followed, as policemen from around the country flew to the city to attend the funerals, I recall talking to Asian friends about the anxiety we felt over Liu's funeral, and whether the outpouring of support and grief would measure up to what it might have been if he were white.
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It's fair to say that fans both of Martin's books and of this show are expecting something that'll measure up to this saga's many breathtaking, heartbreaking, and thought-provoking moments, with the same mix of epic-sized storytelling and small-scale interactions that Benioff and Weiss have handled so memorably for the past eight years.
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The new Kindle doesn't measure up to the Paperwhite in other respects as well: the screen is still recessed instead of flush with the front of the panel, it's not waterproof, it has only 4GB of storage, and there are only 4 LEDs in the lighting system (instead of the five-LED setup on the Paperwhite).
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I think it means that truly successful tech companies are going to have to measure up to the same standards that great non-tech companies live up to — brands like Berkshire Hathaway, Whole Foods, CVS, UPS, Starbucks and Costco that deliver great products and services, have strong growth, make real money and build an organization behind all of this that customers love.
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You have well-known actors in the main roles: Emma Watson (who is just fine but probably too smart for this sort of role, even with a "reimagined" Belle) in the lead, Dan Stevens as the Beast, Kevin Kline as the dad, Luke Evans as a duller Gaston, and a host of twinkly-toned stars as all the teapots and brooms and cupboards in the castle, including Ewan McGregor, Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, and Ian McKellan, none of whom, alas, can measure up to Jerry Orbach and Angela Lansbury.
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