MEASURES in a Sentence

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1. We must take the right measures or we shall fail.
2. Police are planning sterner measures to combat crime.
3. They suggested measures to overcome current difficulties.
4. These measures are strongly supported by environmental groups.
5. We have taken effective measures to preserve our natural resources.

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 Meanings and Examples of MEASURES
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measures
 n.  actions that are carried out by people in authority in order to achieve a particular result
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The Romans, accordingly, admiring the prudence and virtues of Numa, assented to all the measures which he recommended.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI.
2  Power was indeed given him to determine by himself what measures the exigency demanded; to do what he had to do without consultation; and to punish without appeal.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIV.
3  For without the senate they could take no warlike measures, while by assembling the senate they seemed to put an end to their own authority.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XL.
4  For the hostile temper produced by these two causes is more to be feared than any beside, and demands measures of extreme severity to correct it.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LVII.
5  All which is implied first in the measures proposed by Camillus, and next in the resolutions passed on these proposals by the senate.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII.
6  For as men judge of things by their results, any evil which ensues from such measures will be imputed to their author.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXV.
7  In like manner, we read of many citizens who having strenuously promoted various measures were banished when these turned out badly.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXV.
8  And thus it is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQU...
9  Fourthly, by acquiring so much power before the Pope should die that he could by his own measures resist the first shock.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQ...
10  Now, whenever I hear any one advocating measures that are meant to curtail the development of another, I pity the individual who would do this.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIII.
11  He entered attentively into all my arguments in favour of my eventual success and into every minute detail of the measures I had taken to secure it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
12  Beaufort had taken effectual measures to conceal himself, and it was ten months before my father discovered his abode.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
13  After she had obliterated three years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
14  She was not doomed, however, to be long in ignorance of his measures.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47
15  These vigorous measures struck such terror to the breast of Mrs. Crupp, that she subsided into her own kitchen, under the impression that my aunt was mad.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37. A LITTLE COLD WATER
Example Sentence: (196 in 14 pages)
16  Police are planning sterner measures to combat crime.
17  They suggested measures to overcome current difficulties.
18  The leadership discussed a plan of economic measures to counter the effects of such a blockade.
19  The measures are intended to restore public confidence in the economy.
20  We have taken effective measures to preserve our natural resources.
21  One of the effective measures to minimize the dangers of driving is to teach people to obey all the rules of the road.
22  The government should take effective measures to live through this economical crisis.
23  The government has already adopted effective measures against piracy.
24  These measures are strongly supported by environmental groups.
25  We must take the right measures or we shall fail.
26  The board hopes the Federal Aviation Administration will urge the airlines to adopt such measures.
27  And he laid out welfare measures that he would put in place if Congress and the president abolish the current federal system.
28  We have designed a whole raft of measures to improve the transport system.
29  The cost-cutting measures include streamlining administrative procedures in the company.
30  These new measures indicate an about-turn in government policy.