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

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

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

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

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).

In addition, the ISO 9806 standard is ambiguous in describing the way in which the efficiency of solar thermal collectors should be measured, since these could be measured either in terms of gross area or in terms of absorber area.

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.

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

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

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

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

I would say it probably measures ...

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.

But these interests are hard to quantify.

It can be measured directly using the Josephson effect.

Yet its impact on global temperature in a hundred years will be immeasurable.

Panama welcomes the fact that the United Nations has set measurable and quantifiable goals in order to evaluate country by country progress towards achieving the Millennium Goals within a broader concept of freedom.

The Millennium Development Goals have been instrumental in raising public support for development issues and in focusing international efforts on measurable results.

She was convinced that effective implementation of the due diligence standard required measurable indicators, time bound targets and disaggregated data to measure compliance.

In a series of studies, IMF economists have stopped treating the issue as one of good versus evil, and have started treating it as a run of the mill economic choice capital controls have costs and benefits that can be measured and compared.

These difficulties indicate the need for a systematic definition and review of expenditure on gender related activities, and belie the notion that achievements can be measured either in terms of activities (the MYFF) or expenditure (Atlas).

More and more donors are also insisting that NGOs provide measurable proof that they make a difference.

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

These tools are truly scientific, in the sense that their results are both measurable and verifiable, and they have been responsible for many of AI's recent successes.

The results of this research found that governments ability to realize the full value of IT investments is not completely measurable in terms of financial results.

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

At the same time, Disability Studies should work to de stigmatize disease, illness, and impairment, including those that cannot be measured or explained by biological science.

It is unusual in its inclusion of a measure of geographical access as an element of deprivation and in its direct measure of poverty (through data on benefit receipts).

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?

So the route in is recognizing one of the most extraordinary things about life, is that it is scalable, it works over an extraordinary range.

Leakage is defined as the net change of anthropogenic emissions by sources of greenhouse gases which occurs outside the project boundary, and which is measurable and attributable to the CDM project activity.

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

A six article series, The German Nuclear Exit, in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist argues that the move away from nuclear energy is already yielding measurable economic and environmental benefits.

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.

They agree that these measurable steps should be reported to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and that progress should be reviewed as foreseen in the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation.

Agenda 21, the Millennium Development Goals and the Plan of Implementation adopted at the WSSD form the blueprint of their actions and measurable targets for sustainable development at the national level.

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.

We are just beginning to appreciate the extent to which current patterns of industrial activity, including energy production and consumption, are unsustainable in terms of the three pillars of sustainable development, economically, socially and environmentally.

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.

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.