Примеры 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.