#measure

The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#administration #capitol #chairman #committee #concerns

Might was the measure of right. ↗

— Marcus Annaeus Lucan

#might #right

I think we need to get the measurements that Congress has mandated from the White House on how we're going to determine progress in Afghanistan. ↗

— Jeanne Shaheen

#congress #determine #get #going #house

Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences. ↗

— Olympia Snowe

#consequences #deaths #diagnosis #late #long-term

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress. ↗

— Robert South

#conscience #credit #devotions #dress #easter

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure. ↗

— Robert South

#earnest #man #measure #needs #praying

As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#constitution #constitutional #doctrine #inadequate #last

Effective security measures do not come cheap. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#come #effective #measures #security #security measures

In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#although #annual #assessment #connecticut #every

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#apply #author #enough #many #measure