Sentences with phrase «ever measure up to»

I doubt eBooks will ever measure up to their paper counterparts in my book (sorry), but anything that closes the gap is a step forward for writers and readers.

In a guest blog post, Moran explains the universality of what she calls «Rebecca Syndrome» — the doubts that you can ever measure up to a past love.

Nothing in their future life could ever measure up to the glory of that moment, so why go on?

, writing 100's of reviews and reading 1,000's of comments from our readers, it's clear that despite the fact that most fat burners don't ever measure up to their advertising claims, many people still find them helpful.

His four years at the white - shoe law firm Latham & Watkins had crushed the notion that his career would ever measure up to his childhood dreams of strutting across a courtroom like the lead attorney in a John Grisham novel.

«But the fact is, none of the other girls I've met ever measured up to her.»

Not exact matches

The Chinese central bank cut interest rates again in a surprise move as the nation pursues ever more aggressive measures to rev up economic activity.

Employees will wonder how the replacement can ever measure up, and they will compare the new boss to the old.

Rather, the judgment essentially says that none of the traditions ever finally measures up to the tradition, just as no criticism or critical interpretation of a work of art ever equals the original itself.

His tendency to depression led him to despair of ever being able to measure up to the set standard, of ever being able to love God.

Oversee them intently and be careful about their safety and take safety measures to avoid any hazard or trouble during cooking, apart from all that's going on, it is you who the children are looking up to and if you have a smile on your face, they will light up as well and take part more enthusiastically than ever.

Sometimes waiting for the bottle warmer to heat up takes too much time, and have you ever tried to scoop out and measure the formula while holding a fussing baby?

«By opposing [Labour] measures to freeze energy prices and expand free childcare for working parents, the Tories have shown once again that they only ever stand up for a privileged few not for hard - working families.»

Updegrove sounded an optimistic note that recent political changes in Albany provided an opportunity for the measures to at least receive a fair up - or - down vote on the floor of the Assembly, where former Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan, had previously blocked Medicaid reform votes from ever even coming to a vote.

Choose some direction along which to align the magnets — say, the z - axis — and the spin of any electron will only ever be found to be up or down; no electron will ever be measured as three - quarters «up» along that direction.

The first - ever detailed look at Jupiter's polar regions — captured during Juno's first orbit last August — reveals chaotic swirls of storms, some measuring up to 1400 kilometers across, researchers report today in Science.

Ever wonder how you measure up when it comes to fitness?

TRANSFORMATION TUESDAY - SCALES VERSUS PICTURES — My nana always says a picture tells a thousand words - well here's one for you - same weight, three years apart - Feeling healthy is THE number one measure of a healthy body, and I know that whats the mirror, and in my progress pics like this one, are 100 % more accurate measure, and I'm so glad I've documented my whole weight loss journey - My weight has shot up to 68kgs again in the last while, and my minds been playing tricks on me ♀️ The last time I was 68kgs was 2015, I was just 12 weeks into my first ever training program and I had lost a massive 7kgs already!!

The phrase refers to a key step in horse grooming — when a horse runs fast, it works up a sweat, especially under the saddle.Inebriated Southerners have measured their drunkenness by him ever since.

Now, more than ever it can be more difficult for successful people, particularly successful women, to find dates who measure up to their expectations.

On the outside, it looks like this film — a plucky and resourceful, yet measured and formidable, female protagonist, the ever - seductive pseudo-Gothic setting, pin - up flavour of the month Tom Hiddleston — but to dismiss Crimson Peak as a Gothic romance for girls is to do it a huge disservice.

Richard Picking, international marketing director at Gratnells, recognises this: «Post-Brexit there will be more attention than ever paid to how Britain's key sectors perform and how the calibre of our graduates, our engineers and designers measure up in the global market.»

Nevertheless, despite our greatly enhanced commitments to public education — and despite the fact that children are growing up in better - educated and smaller families than ever before — student performance during this period, as measured by NAEP test scores for high school seniors in math and reading, moved hardly a hair's breadth.

We will give up on «value - added» measures when we realize that they will be too costly to ever be accurate enough to tell us anything better than principal observations already do.

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All of the iPads have fairly high true contrast ratios, from 967 for the iPad mini 4, to 1,064 for the iPad Air 2, up to a very impressive 1,631 for the iPad Pro, the highest we have ever measured for an LCD tablet display.

The cash value of permanent life insurance does offer a measure of protection as, if you ever decide to give up your coverage to the insurer, you would get the cash value back.

We are confident that at least one of our 2 pet - friendly units will measure up to your expectations, so you and your pet can live together happily ever after, as snug as a bug in a rug.

Have you ever picked up a stray pet and felt an urgent need to treat it or are you looking for a cheap prevention measure?

Due to ever - changing airport security measures, TSA guidelines and Customs and Border security we've put together a list of links to critical websites with up - to - date travel advisory and security information.

Maybe you can point me, then, to where he promised he would blow up the federal deficit, or enact tax measures tailored to help the ultrarich, or where he would do everything possible to ruin the ACA without ever even proposing an alternative?

Without these millions of creatures who existed long before we ever showed up, and have the right to continue existing, we will surely become bankrupt, depleted, one dimensional and sorrier than we've ever been if we don't pay attention now and take measures to ensure the «real» species continues on, not their genes on ice.

The magnitude of this month's record, combined with the fact that seven months so far this year are now the hottest in history — including the last five in a row — means 2015 is now virtually certain to wind up as Earth's hottest year ever measured.

And the sonar systems on Los Angelos class fast attack submarines, like the one I went under the ice on, that could measure ice thickness, were of the active variety, projecting sound and listening to the echos, and were rarely, if ever used up there.

What they found is simply stunning: The rate at which the globe is warming right now is far, far faster than it ever has going back as far as they could measure, up to 11,300 years ago.

The mercury shot up to an astonishing 53.5 °C (128.3 °F) at Turbat, Pakistan on May 28, making it Earth's hottest temperature ever recorded in the month of May — and one of Earth's top - five hottest reliably - measured temperatures on record, for any month.

My dear Mr. Black, given the way historical, measured temperatures are forced to dance up and down at the whim of whichever climate alarmist happens to be manipulating them today, the only logical impossibility around here is that any scientific knowledge might ever be gleaned from the resulting «evidence».

Now, after NASA's report showing that September 2016 was 1.13 C hotter than 1880s averages (or 0.91 C hotter than NASA's 20th - century baseline measure), this year is setting up to be the warmest ever recorded by a wide margin.

Meanwhile, up in the Arctic, distressing new information from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, shows that Arctic sea ice extent has settled to its fourth - lowest level ever measured at the end of the most recent melt season.

I have never understood why we ever thought we could use system set up to measure local weather to measure global climate.

13 December 2009 COPENHAGEN CIFOR's third annual Forest Day has wrapped up at COP 15 in Copenhagen, where new technologies are making it easier and more cost - effective than ever to measure, report, and verify the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD).

These measures might sound cumbersome to folks who are used to filling up with gas, but the truth is that I've relied much less on public charging than I ever thought I would.

The cash value of permanent life insurance does offer a measure of protection as, if you ever decide to give up your coverage to the insurer, you would get the cash value back.

All of the iPads have fairly high True Contrast Ratios, from 967 for the iPad mini 4, to 1,064 for the iPad Air 2, up to a very impressive 1,631 for the iPad Pro, the highest we have ever measured for an LCD Tablet display.

Ever since Apple introduced a measure to stop iPhones from unexpectedly shutting down in iOS 11, politicians and other morons have jumped on the story to gin up publicity for themselves.

The ever - so - clever developer Steve Troughton - Smith has somehow figured out the screen size of the 10th - anniversary iPhone by diving deep into the beta code for the Apple HomePod speaker.Credit: Benjamin GeskinLining up with previous iPhone 8 rumors, the new leak points to Apple's flagship sporting an OLED display that measures 5.8 inches diagonally.

Anyone who's ever followed benchmarks for smartphones has certainly heard of Geekbench 3 before, as Primate Labs» popular benchmarking app has been used to measure up countless mobile devices over the years.

The researchers then looked to see if the various factors measured at the beginning of the study predicted (a) whether the women ever hooked up during that year and, if so, (b) how many times they hooked up.

Hutchinson: Last year we had some of our largest months ever, so that is tough to measure up against.