Sentences with phrase «measuring rod»

To those for whom criticism is the only measuring rod for «truth,» therefore, revelation will inevitably be problematic.

Using transgenic mice without functional cones, the investigators first measured rod - driven signals and could reliably detect them both in the retina and in the brain even at high light levels.

The methods of logical deduction and induction, and especially scientific method, seem to possess a neutrality and public accessibility that makes them apt measuring rods for the veracity of our ideas.

The league is the best measuring rod.

Early in the twentieth century the astronomer Henrietta Leavitt found that the brightness of this type of star was related to its period and could therefore be used as a cosmic measuring rod.

«The evidence is accumulating that redshift is a shaky measuring rod.»

Platinum measuring rods will not make children taller.

Landfill, Richmond BC (1991), for instance, is shot from a road toward a heap of earth with a tilted measuring rod beside a dirt service road, a leafless tree behind it.

There is only one true kind of Christian & that is one who lives by the Bible, God's measuring rod for all of us.

I'm not even sure where the standard of 40 hour weeks came from and there is nothing special about 40 hours that made us choose that as our measuring rod other than it's a standard that is already in place.

As Terry said, the Bible is the measuring rod to test what is spoken.

«Commentary» on this book is fundamentally backward, involving an arrogant claim to measure the measuring rod.

With a measuring rod, John is called to draw boundaries that mark off holy space.

The measuring rod may be «moved freely» in the space - time continuum without deformation.

«Canon» means «rod» and refers to a measuring rod that was used by carpenters and builders.

Melancthon turned again to the great names in Christian history, as others did elsewhere, to find some measuring rod.

Shammai drove him away with a measuring rod.

I held my measuring rod to an aspen less than three feet tall and counted its browse wounds — eight in all, each marked by a crook in its trunk.

And so we actually have very careful measuring rods and we can measure the length of two different measuring rods in different places --[it's] called an interferometer — and we look for one of them to, one length to change relative together.

By all measuring rods, Mr. Talmadge could think critically and intensively; yet he contends that I am an inferior being.

Instead of a dip stick / measuring rod, a fuel gauge was introduced.

«Social significance» was the measuring rod in the arts and the church as well as on the campus.

Gold is the measuring rod of economics, whether we like it or not.

Inclusion in a measuring rod does not mean most of the money is not available for investment purposes.

It is important to note that annual income is a measuring rod for child support.