I would say it probably measures ...

But these interests are hard to quantify.

It can be measured directly using the Josephson effect.

I think today we were a witness to such a moment where unquantifiable victories are won.

Clear targets meant greater accountability both for UNHCR and the donor community.

And when I talk about my ideas, they're like, BBut it's not scalable, you know.

But the economic importance of stories bears no close relation to their monetary value (which can be measured only after the fact, if at all).

It should be analyzed, measured, controlled, documented, and validated.

Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

You know, it looks at economic power measured by GDP.

Things that were thought impossible just a few years ago can actually be measured now.

In the first part, the project will review the empirical literature on productivity analysis and the methods of measuring productivity.

It left behind catastrophic death and destruction, untold misery and immeasurable suffering.

This is 10 times faster than the next highest measured wind speed.

Another methodological challenge relates to activities such as policy advice, which are difficult to measure in quantitative terms.

There is a tendency to focus on things that are easier to measure, like economic growth statistics.

Power is the metered net electrical transfer rate at any given moment and is measured in megawatts (MW).

The largest documented single crystal of amblygonite measured 7.62x2.44x1.83 m3 and weighed 102 tons.

(b) Achieving significant and measurable results in the field of demand reduction, including through prevention and treatment strategies and programmes to reduce drug use, with particular focus on children and young people

And there is almost nothing we can do about it, aside from taking a ruler and starting to measure it.

These cultural traits are difficult to quantify, so economists are uncomfortable in dealing with them.

Hence, every national youth policy should include measurable goals on how to improve the situation for all young women and young men, with special attention to marginalized youth, in order to secure our full participation in society.

The many recipes thesis is that countries develop successfully by following eclectic policies tailored to specific local conditions rather than by following generic best practice formulas designed by economic theorists.

And this isn't something that you can quantify or track or measure, and we tend to undervalue things in society that we can't measure.

So all the changes and reforms we were able to make have shown up in results that are measurable in the economy.

When economists examine human capital, they prefer measurable criteria such as years of schooling.

As well, there are benefits arising from the standardization of systems that are of a more qualitative nature and thus difficult to quantify.

The Millennium Development Goals embody a quantifiable vision of human dignity and solidarity, as well as of important economic and social rights.

Clearly, capacity to pay could not be measured through statistics alone, and stubborn adherence to the criterion of per capita GNI was erroneous and misleading, and did not correspond to economic realities.

I mean, the temperature as measured and you can find this on our wonderful Internet, you just go and look for all NASAs records, and all the Weather Bureau's records, and you'll look at it yourself, and you'll see, the temperature has just the nighttime temperature measured on the surface of the planet has gone up a tiny little bit.

The media, corporate players, and lawmakers seem not to be thinking about the problem and how to measure it properly.

The shadow of such fragmentation, with its unfathomable perils, now hangs over Iraq.

Leadership . In the end, all presidential elections come down to the intangibles of leadership.

The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation.

Energy is electricity that flows through a metered point for a given period and is measured in megawatt hours (MWh).

This theory of personality factors and the instrument used to measure them are known respectively as the 16 personality factor model and the 16PF Questionnaire.

I mean, if you actually measure the temperature over a period I mean, the temperature has been measured now pretty carefully for about 50, 60 years longer than that it's been measured, but in really nice, precise ways, and records have been kept for 50 or 60 years, and in fact, the temperature hadn't really gone up.

Needles in common medical use range from 7 gauge (the largest) to 33 (the smallest) on the Stubs scale.

An anemometer measures the wind speed and the direction the wind is blowing from at the site where it is mounted.

The .303 British is for a bore nominally 303 1000 inch and this chambering was standardized by the British Army.

When we think about human capital we think about the things we can measure easily things like grades, SAT's, degrees, the number of years in schooling.

If they over constrain the financial sector, risk may migrate outside the regulatory frontier, where it will be harder to measure and monitor.

Smaller proteins migrate faster through this mesh and the proteins are thus separated according to size (usually measured in kilodaltons, kDa).

The volume of China s trade with South Korea is almost 70 times that with the North. Thus, if China truly is the mercantilist power that many in the West claim, it should tilt decisively towards the South.