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“You are applying Western metrics to someone who is not using that metric against you,” referring to ISIS, Bolger said.

Take the chief metric of the war in Vietnam—body counts, which ultimately did not answer whether the strategy was working.

America sent less than 2,000 metric tons of cheese to China in 2009.

While approximately one in every 25 attempts among adults results in death, that same metric is one in five for under-29s.

Do you have any kind of metric for whether what you're doing is working or not?

The British measure of energy is the foot-pound; the metric measure is the kilogrammetre.

Convention of May 20, 1875, regarding the unification and improvement of the metric system.

To appreciate its metre, one must so enter into the spirit of a poem that the metric movement is felt as a part of its expression.

So complex, so mysterious, is the metric expression of feeling, that no one poem can be made a standard for another.

It is impossible to read it in its proper spirit when not correctly rendering its metric rhythm.