There was a measuring stick, with which he checked snowfall.
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"So today, I put down the measuring stick," Moore said.
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So I— BECKY QUICK: Well, that's a good measuring stick.
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Wins and losses are far from a sufficient measuring stick.
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Trump uses wealth as a measuring stick of success and importance.
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"The 2020 measuring stick is not anybody but Trump," Krebs said.
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Whether Porsche likes to admit it, Tesla will be its measuring stick.
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The bottom line as a measuring stick is a prescription for unhappiness.
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Public markets are also used as a measuring stick when valuing private investments.
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Yet to me that's the measuring stick by which they should be judged.
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So," says our guide, as we gather around the tall measuring stick, "look closer.
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And who better a measuring stick than America's most infamous president, Richard M. Nixon?
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"We understood that this was a good measuring-stick game for us," Horford said.
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Their silence pointed to the one measuring stick that Trump hasn't yet broken: the voters.
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"It was a great atmosphere and a huge measuring-stick win for us," Leddy said.
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"The measuring stick is what you will do if there is no deal," he said.
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Once they had a measuring stick, the scientists could use it to test unknown bottles.
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They will remind you about Hurricane Hugo -- the measuring stick of what disaster means here.
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Economists are at their least useful when a measuring stick should not be used at all.
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Don't use someone with cancer as a measuring stick for how positive your attitude should be.
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The device is a battery-powered, handheld breath-measuring stick that pairs with a smartphone app.
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It's kind of artificial to use GDP as the measuring stick for military spending at all.
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After you're assessed with a measuring stick, you take your place in front of your zone.
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VICE: Why did you use the Forbes 400 as a measuring stick for the super rich?
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Earlier in his address, Trump cited the stock market as a measuring stick for his administration's success.
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And although these metrics serve as a valuable measuring stick, their reliability and accuracy tends to vary.
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The flamboyance of Trump's wealth was an aspirational measuring stick for black men on scores of songs.
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But judged by the traditional Olympic measuring stick, his performance in Rio was very much a success.
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Many experts agree that the stock market shouldn't be the sole measuring stick for the broader economy.
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The men paid Mark no attention and began to measure the room with a long measuring stick.
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He made it clear that unforced errors — above all, Djokovic's 100 — have their limits as a measuring stick.
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And he uses himself as a measuring stick by which to gauge others and his interactions with them.
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Finally, the tech platforms are relatively small compared to the global economy, which is the appropriate measuring stick.
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Cooperman's reasoning Cooperman juxtaposes his stock picks against the broader S&P 28 index as a measuring stick.
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With Wikipedia as a measuring stick, it looks like I listened to 28 percent of albums worth mentioning.
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It is far from perfect, but none of his predecessors even recognized the need for an empirical measuring stick.
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Without a clear public measuring stick, companies can more easily slip through the cracks of accountability, say industry experts.
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Whether this world of fast, customizable and indiscriminate recordings is a boon depends on the show and the measuring stick.
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But those compliments came with a catch: she also began to use people's compliments as a measuring stick for her worthiness.
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If that is a measuring stick, Silicon Valley has another few decades to go, but may be waning around mid century.
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Some of the police photographs show the heart resting on what looks like an autopsy table next to a measuring stick.
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As the top women's hockey power in Asia, Japan is not only a rival, it is Korea's measuring stick for success.
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The settlement a decade ago over complications associated with the pain medication Vioxx is a good measuring stick, Ms. Burch said.
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We tried out a few different consumer-targeted apps, including a AR measuring stick, 3D room scanner, and a AR shooting game.
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That made their meeting on Saturday in their opening game not a must-win match, but something more like a measuring stick.
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But like I said earlier, my measuring stick is completely different and no first place or Mirrorball is the be all end all.
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Still, the data provides a powerful financial measuring stick for the tough decisions that countless communities — large and small — are starting to confront.
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Most economists, by contrast, see the trade deficit as a crude measuring stick that says little about the health of the domestic economy.
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Banks' comments are still important industry-wide, and because of his standing in Hollywood, Spielberg is a great measuring stick to illustrate her point.
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Numbers don't tell the whole story Most meteorologists agree, however, that the best measuring stick for tropical activity is Accumulated Cyclone Energy, or ACE.
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For me, I've tried hard to be the best journalist I can be, and I use that as a measuring stick as my goal.
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Not-quite-good-enough has been good enough for Bengals owner Mike Brown, but this campaign falls well short of even that low measuring stick.
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But the rest of us don't even get a measuring stick that's valid to gauge our savings, assure our retirements, or expand investment in business.
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Greta leads us to the pathology lab of the crematorium, in which a doctor's measuring stick has been mounted along the wall in the corner.
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The measuring stick for Ms. Hirshland will be her most likely be her ability to turn the U.S.O.C. into a more vigilant and proactive organization.
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An octagonal column rises up from the bottom of the pit — a measuring stick, so to speak, of the flood levels of the mighty river.
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If, in fact, the guys are treated with a different measuring stick for the same transgressions, this needs to be thoroughly examined and must be fixed.
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It accounts for multiple types of seismic waves, drawing on more precise instruments and better computing to provide a reliable measuring stick to compare seismic events.
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Reading your book, it seemed to me that you were using the psychological state of our veterans as a measuring stick for the health of our society.
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ON Pro Football Sunday's game between the two floundering teams that share MetLife Stadium will also be a measuring stick for quarterbacks Sam Darnold and Daniel Jones.
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Today that phrase might be a good measuring stick for the assortment of streaming services asking for our attention and money: Is anything on them "must-see TV"?
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"It will be a measuring stick, but like we&aposve said all along, we&aposre going to keep an even keel whatever the results are, positive or negative."
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Cassidy, who is also a physician, previously cited late night host Jimmy Kimmel's emotional monologue about health care to use as a measuring stick on a GOP bill.
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But when you go around the circle, Stix said, you end up with a measuring stick that looks different from if you had gone around the other way.
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With this album, Mind Spiders now has more albums than The Marked Men, but people will always use that band as a measuring stick against whatever else you do.
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It&aposs not only a potentially giant lump sum of cash, but also an individual measuring stick and a way for firms to signal how much they value employees.
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While both polls weren't intended to enact legislation, the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District planned to use the polls as a measuring stick when deciding whether to release the mosquitoes.
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But Hong was the real measuring stick, although their mother, Young-mi, confirmed on Tuesday that Hyeon began playing tennis after a doctor said it would help his poor eyesight.
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Because the Martin County Sheriff's Department will absolutely put Baby in a corner, right in front of a giant painted-on measuring stick, noting Baby's height and taking Baby's mugshot.
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The photographs are meant to aid in identification later and should include separate pictures of the entire body, the whole face, distinguishing features and clothing, and a measuring stick for scale.
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However, the growth in exports has underscored the hub's waning influence as the primary measuring stick for the U.S. oil market and the leading barometer of future supply, demand and prices.
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Our basketball columnist looks at how the Rating Percentage Index, long the measuring stick for the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament, which begins this week, gives way to a new metric: the NET.
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Now, at this halfway point to the end of that more traditional measuring stick, here are seven story lines that defined the first nine weeks -- and seem likely to guide the next.
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But it is Sanders' relentless push for Medicare for All -- a proposal with 14 Senate co-sponsors in its latest iteration -- that has set a measuring stick among Democrats in this primary.
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In the corner of the room is a measuring stick that was made by a childhood friend, and on the rocker is a handmade blanket from another friend I grew up with.
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But now it is 2017, and as the Yankees packed their bags on Sunday in Pittsburgh and prepared to head to Boston, they seemed to be girding for a measuring-stick series.
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Measuring stick Trump's address will draw immediate comparisons with his speech to a joint session of Congress a month into his presidency last February -- and may not be flattered by the comparison.
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The new rules, these members said, implied that "all of us are racists," were "capitulating to political correctness," and "lessened" the academy's value as "a measuring stick for excellence," among other objections.
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For too long, female power has been calculated using the arbitrary measuring stick of how men exercised authority; women, as a result, largely shaped themselves to these male-determined standards and norms.
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Yancy Medeiros isn't perfect but he's a very solid fighter and a good measuring stick for Gillespie who is one of the most exciting prospects on the UFC roster but still largely untested.
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Allen outduels Talbot as Oilers tip Blues EDMONTON, Alberta — The Edmonton Oilers came up big in a measuring stick game Thursday, scoring a 3-1 victory over their long-time nemesis from St. Louis.
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Pull out the tape measure Nepal will need one heck of a measuring stick now that it wants to figure out exactly how tall Mount Everest is now, after quakes and continental plate shifts.
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When you sent off your film to get developed, lab technicians would use the image of a white woman with brown hair named Shirley as the measuring stick against which they calibrated the colors.
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Still, they knew they had come up short in a game that served as another measuring stick of how much progress they are actually making in Phil Jackson's third season as the team president.
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For two top-ten ranked welterweights at the top of their games to be allowed to leave the UFC at the same time and serve as a measuring stick for Bellator's own division was remarkable.
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"If you have an inequality of two things but the measuring stick is sort of shrunk by a factor which you don't control, then you lose control over what the inequality actually means," Stix said.
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A thing that happens when someone dies is that every action and reaction occurring in the wake of the death is marked against an invisible measuring stick known only as what they would have wanted.
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That spread differential between the two sovereigns in the dollar market - where Colombia 4.5% 2026s are trading at 3.28% versus 5.62% on Argentina's 7.5% 2026s - could provide a good measuring stick in euros, say bankers.
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While this homestand could serve as measuring stick for the Mets as a group, there will also be increased scrutiny on Manager Mickey Callaway as he faces the pressure of a make-or-break stretch.
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While this homestand could serve as measuring stick for the Mets as a group, there will also be increased scrutiny on Manager Mickey Callaway as he faces the pressure of a make-or-break stretch.
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This is a common measuring stick for six-figure cars: Does it let you engage in and own your aggressions and mistakes, or is an interventionist, taking control or overriding at the first sign of trouble?
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But most short-sighted of all, Trump's own words fashioned a measuring stick by which I doubt he wants to be judged as he prepares to launch his riskiest diplomacy yet on the Korean Peninsula. Why?
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And Roosevelt -- despite creating the 100-day measuring stick because of his efforts to recover from the Great Depression -- would be judged by posterity for his role in saving Western civilization from the threat of Nazism.
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Instead, it was the measuring stick for the limits to which Jim Crow laws had to go to police racial lines in Louisiana and the wider South (see one-drop rule, tragic mulatto, Plessy v. Ferguson).
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"My number one thing about being tall is when my body becomes a measuring stick," actress Mackenzie Davis tells me, over the phone, describing her reaction when men will ask to stand back-to-back with her.
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Jones met Mandela when the former South African president visited Texas Stadium in 1999 to take in a Dallas-Washington game, and Madiba has become the go-to measuring stick whenever the Cowboys owner talks about an inspiring moment.
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"It's ridiculous, the notion that somehow the watchlists are a reliable measuring stick for who should be deprived of an ability to purchase weapons," said Ramzi Kassem, a law professor at the City University of New York, told the Guardian.
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"Not because I want to be these women - because I'd rather die, but they're so horribly mediocre and they're always being held up as paragons of virtue (or) some sort of measuring stick to humiliate me," she said in the letter.
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Though generations of Democrats have toyed with ideas for expanding or guaranteeing medical coverage, Sanders' relentless push for Medicare for All -- a proposal unveiled with several big-name co-sponsors -- has set a measuring stick among Democrats in this primary.
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Keyto's $99 breath-measuring stick is essentially a small Keto dieters exhale acetone The state of ketosis can be triggered when a reliable 70-80% of a person's daily calories come from fat, and no more than 5% come from carbs.
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For all of Copa América's prestige and historical importance, Klinsmann has seemed to most appreciate its value as a testing ground and measuring stick, not only for his team but also for the state of the game in the country.
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The data, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is sure to be used as a measuring stick for how Trump administration policies affect the nation's uninsured rate, which has plummeted since the rollout of the Affordable Care Act.
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NBC's prime-time ratings are down, too, about 16 percent from four years ago, though according to Total Audience Delivery, NBC's preferred measuring stick and the one it used to sell ads for the Games, viewership is only down 8 percent over all.
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He was not selected for the morning four-ball session on Friday and instead was there at the first tee shortly after sunrise to watch Tiger Woods, his generational measuring stick, return to Ryder Cup action for the first time since 22016.
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As the league continues to rapidly expand, elite clubs like the Sounders will play a pivotal role in maintaining a sense of stability, while also providing a measuring stick for expansion clubs to compare themselves against and a rubric for them to follow.
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So if pops are hard to vet, and IPO pricing remains an art-science hybrid, what measuring stick can we use to decide when an IPO did well, versus gains so steep that it probably could have raised a bit more in its flotation?
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The Zags are the measuring stick for every aspiring basketball school in the country; ask pretty much any mid-major coach about their model for success—and I asked several over the course of the season—and they will inevitably mention Few and Gonzaga.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The legacy of Giants quarterback Eli Manning may be shaped by his two Super Bowl victories over the New England Patriots, but it is the Dallas Cowboys who have been the lasting measuring stick and had the most sway over his career.
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The goal has all but evaporated from VFA's messaging, and the nonprofit now says it feels it has so far created 252,403 jobs — and that's based on how many jobs its partner companies have added since working with a VFA fellow, a highly questionable measuring stick.
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The global scientific community has always looked to the U.S. as the measuring stick against which to set their own investment, yet we now risk having other nations surpass the U.S. with their investment in medical R&D and the economic development driven by such world leadership.
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Video explainers of Q followers talking through potential connected topics have racked up millions of views on YouTube, and the numbers of tweets out there are too numerous to count (and the difficulty in discerning genuine posts versus bot activity makes Twitter a poor measuring stick anyway).
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Harden triple-double fuels Rockets past Cavaliers HOUSTON — The Rockets handled all the praise that came their way late Sunday night with a deft touch, noting to a man that their opponent played the previous night in Orlando and that this result was a measuring stick and nothing more.
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Combined, they are 11-3 on the road, which may be the best measuring stick for excellence in the N.F.L. Also, the Vikings, the Rams, the Eagles and the Saints have defenses that disrupt opposing offenses and distract opposing quarterbacks, something that was on display in Sunday's games.
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Given the level of backlash a commercial with even a whiff of gay implications (or other threat to traditional masculinity) can still receive, these commercials and the response are less of a marker of progress, and more of a measuring stick for how far we still have to go.
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The Vols want to be Alabama—once its rival, now the class of the SEC and the entire country, a school Tennessee hasn't beaten since 20163—and the coming season figures to be measuring stick for just how far the Vols are from that goal, and how close they might get.
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Comparing ICE occupations to similar actions at Army draft board locations at the height of the Vietnam War, he pointed to the midterm elections as a key measuring stick for what this latest eruption of Occupy-style protests really means, and what activists intend to get before they back down.
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In Bloomberg, however, Trump faces a direct challenge to core principles that underpin his entire political career, including his use of personal wealth as a measuring stick for power and importance, as well as his insistence that success in the private sector correlates directly to success in the White House.
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Luckily Davis didn't face the same fate as Benson Henderson—a top ten lightweight who was put into a match with a welterweight, and then a featherweight on arriving in Bellator—making it impossible to draw direct comparisons between the UFC and Bellator lightweight divisions with Henderson as a current measuring stick.
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And each year, the kitchen gossip which once revolved around people I didn't know and would probably never meet suddenly crystallized when the hurt happened to my friends, my cousins, my aunts; a family friend's suicide after her divorce was the measuring stick the women of my community used to define pain.
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Absent some kind of common measuring stick, it's all too easy for universities to rationalize policies which advantage those who bring dollars or connections to the institution, those who have the right parents or right ethnic profile, or those who reflect the views and values of those who work in the admissions office.
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Coach Ken Klee was replaced by Robb Stauber earlier this month, and now it&aposs unclear how USA Hockey will fill its roster for a tournament it has won six of the past eight times and was expected to serve as a measuring stick for the South Korea Winter Olympics just 11 months away.
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Last night, Joel Embiid posted a 25/8/3/2 line in a win against the 35.23-24 Minnesota Timberwolves and his Western Conference measuring stick Karl-Anthony Towns (who was on point as well with 23/15/5/2.) The Process even broke out a sweeping, borderline vintage Kareem Skyhook, which only portends good things for the future.
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She moves abroad, to London for college and, later, after the death of her mother, to Paris, where she strikes up a friendship with an older man, an Anglophone novelist, referred to only as M. As foreigners together, they wander the city talking and later exchanging emails about everything from food to birds' nests to grumpy shopkeepers to writing and even a standard measuring stick.
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Looking across the room, Mark saw a big canvas on the wall showing a landscape with reddish hills on either side of a lush green valley, and he was standing at the door now, half in half out of Suzanne's room, still without his trousers, contemplating this strange landscape, listening to the young man's plaintive voice as the two workers banged about with their measuring stick, when he woke up needing a pee.
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