be measured
Synonyms
Examples
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
People can no more be judged by their looks than the sea can be measured in bushels.
Injury is to be measured by malice.