Eksempler på barometer

• The need for deft handling is acknowledged : ' although the graphic satires ' relation to reality was skewed by fantasy and illusion, they remain invaluable cultural barometers' (p. 11).

• Moreover, these traditional barometers have an unlimited lifespan, unlike their digital successors, which work on batteries and therefore use energy.

• Alternatively, they can buy a second-hand one, as the directive is about the release onto the market of new barometers.

• We cannot, for reasons of nostalgia, continue to produce barometers that are environmental hazards.

• I trust that in the name of common sense we will say no to the ban on the production of barometers.

• If they were genuine they would only show what is happening, but they do not even do that, so they are merely pseudo-barometers.

• The present levels of unemployment and inflation—the most obvious barometers of success or failure—are wholly unacceptable.

• Barometers may break or leak, so that mercury ends up in the environment anyway.

• There is no justification whatsoever for a ban on barometers.

• I believe the transitional period of two years for barometers is quite sufficient.

• Barometers are the subject of much debate, as we witnessed a moment ago.

• If energy-saving light bulbs were universally used, we would have at least as much of it in our households as at present with traditional barometers.

• I read the annual reports of the various big banks, which are surely barometers of the financial condition of the country.

• We are influenced very much by our interests and those of our constituents, and we are very good barometers of the latter.

• Their effectiveness and productivity are arguably the most important barometers of the effectiveness and productivity of a nation.