How To Use Measure up In A Sentence
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He didn't see how he could ever measure up to his father's standards.
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No other nation has ever been quite so obsessed by defining what it is, or troubled by the idea that reality might not measure up to the ideal.
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First measure up, then cut the timber to the correct length.
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Greenpeace corporate environmental campaigner Monica Richter says Greenpeace will be asking Australia's biggest companies how they measure up on the issues so it could separate the progressives from the laggards.
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This regiment is mindful of the fact that in order to justify the confidence of those set in authority over us, it must strive in the future to measure up to an exacting standard of readiness.
Dinner in Honour of The Toronto Scottish Regiment
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How will the Secretary General measure up to his new responsibilities?
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It was fatiguing sometimes to try to measure up to her standard of perfection.
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Then, if you measure up an equidistance at the corners, the ceiling will slope to match your floor.
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Sadly, the rest of the film doesn't measure up to her impressive standards.
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Jimmy was an able judge of stock and could measure up an animal in quick time.
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It was fatiguing sometimes to try to measure up to her standard of perfection.
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I'd better measure up before I start laying the carpet.
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Oman has failed to measure up to the International Trade Organization requirements for fair labor practices.
Free Trade Agreement With Oman Disregards Best Interests of U.S.
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You must see to it that all the goods measure up to the specifications.
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How does the food here measure up according to your nutrition standards?
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A Marine who doesn't quite measure up is hazed by two fellow Marines at the Corp's base in Cuba.
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The establishment of a new academic library often affords an insight into the way collections measure up to such standards as exist.
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Nowhere did they measure up to the advertising folders, or to the conception these had formed in my mind's eye.
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Will you measure up or shall I?
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You don't normally get a vestment maker on every street corner, but here ministers can measure up for a new chasuble, then go down another aisle and find everything from stained glass to computer software.
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Then I have to mentally measure up exactly where the stamp should be positioned, ensuring that it is placed equidistant from the side and the top of the envelope, with an equal measure of space on both margins.
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What's more, Manager Thomas Kuwatsch has declared that those who don't measure up to the prescribed level of jollity in the morning should stay at home until they cheer up, Ananova reports.
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It was fatiguing sometimes to try to measure up to her standard of perfection.
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It was fatiguing sometimes to try to measure up to her standard of perfection.
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I make a mental checklist of a plant's qualities and see which ones measure up.
Times, Sunday Times
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Teenagers, in particular, are susceptible to feelings of worthlessness and low self-esteem because they cannot measure up to the perceived ideal of air-brushed perfection.
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To conform to these duties and obligations is to be rational; to fail to measure up to them is to be irrational.
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It must be their tragic flaws that make them fail to measure up in our eyes.
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Does this proud and historic little state really measure up to its potential?
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The party did not measure up to their expectations.
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He was concerned he wouldn't measure up to the rest of the group, " said Randy Yost, committee chairman and former CEO of Placer Bank of Commerce in California.
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Monica, You make an excellent and indisputable point about the incomparability of the museums in New York, but even setting aside NYC, the museums in SF don't really measure up to the standards of many other American cities, even cities which many San Franciscans love to sneer at.
Art and Nature
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Last year's intake just didn't measure up.
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We measure up for laminate flooring and self-assembly bookcases.
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Under that model, teachers, students, and schools are gauged by how their test scores measure up.
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The US doesn't measure up well in the study, coming in at No. 12 out of 14 on percentage of trips adults take by bike or foot.
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There is no way I am ever going to measure up to the fabulousness that is Andre (though he can't see it in himself) or the calibre of his other guests.
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How does the food here measure up according to your nutrition standards?
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In fact, they only serve to point out to viewer that nothing, ever, anywhere, anywhen, could measure up to this:
[AKICILJ] for forty days and forty night they rode through red blood to the knee
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They are less likely to measure up well.
Times, Sunday Times
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We'll give you a week's trial in the job to see how you measure up.
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I'd better measure up before I start laying the carpet.
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She's always comparing me to other people, and somehow I never measure up.
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Hmm..the mild ambidexterity I referred to doesn't measure up: I throw left-handed, draw right handed.
Abe in Two
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Staff from City of York Council, which is responsible for the stairlift, were due to measure up for a replacement lift at Mr Garner's home later today.
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I make a mental checklist of a plant's qualities and see which ones measure up.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a tough assignment, and I hope he'll measure up.
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First measure up, then cut the timber to the correct length.
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If in doubt, ask the supplier to measure up for you.
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This product does not measure up.
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Will you measure up or shall I?
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Those who fail to measure up to his standards are not tolerated for long.
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This includes replacing the currency established by Mobuto, the new zaire by the Congolese franc, a crucial measure upon which hinges economic and banking sector reforms.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The establishment of a new academic library often affords an insight into the way collections measure up to such standards as exist.
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Many companies seem to have set too high a standard for their employees to measure up to.
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But how does 'exergaming' measure up to more traditional exercise?
The Sun
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The only question is whether our politicians - who are after all human - can measure up to these exacting standards demanded by the Scottish parliament - I'm sure I couldn't.
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If the rest of the album fails to measure up entirely, there is still plenty of atmospheric mood music to get you thinking, or have you reflecting on any time spent in one of the greatest cities in the world.
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The establishment of a new academic library often affords an insight into the way collections measure up to such standards as exist.
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I'd better measure up before I start laying the carpet.
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His physique couldn't measure up to the comic-book icon, but he possessed the broad-shouldered stature to make the role his own.
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The party did not measure up to their expectations.
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Bekan is a pleasant pastoral countryside, as fine as you will fine the length and breadth of Ireland and its cattle and stock measure up.
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They are the perfect twoseome, whose relationship is looked upon as solid and ideal, a yardstick if you will for others to measure up to, an unshakeable bond.
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But then they are equally scathing about anything that fails to measure up to their own exacting standards.
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Measure up from the bait clip about 18-inches and crimp both crimps either side of the swivel into place.
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Once you've got a rough idea of where you want everything to go, measure up your tubing and cut yourself the correct lengths.
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Here we have a clear cut case of film trying to measure up to a literary work, or of an audience expecting to make such a comparison.
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The tusk of whale or narwhal is spirally curved, and can measure up to 2.5 m in length.
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She's always comparing me to other people, and somehow I never measure up.
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On that occasion his feelings had been strong in regard to the measure upon which he broke away from his party; but, when he first thought of it, he did not care much about Church disendowment.
Phineas Redux
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So, it's meaningless to say that the rest of the album doesn't quite measure up.
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This product does not measure up.
