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in some measure



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Idioms and Phrases

Somewhat, to a certain extent, as in In some measure we owe these privileges to our parents . Shakespeare used this term in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1:2): “I will condole in some measure.†Similarly, in large measure , dating from the same period, means “to a considerable extent,†as in In large measure the two sides agree . [c. 1600]
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Global warming would “put strictures on the economic growth that has been the great social salve that has kept some groups, in some measure, from each other’s throats,†he told his close friend Otis Graham, the University of California, Santa Barbara, historian.

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Even before the trial’s opening statements, the Secret Service was in some measure planning for the extraordinary possibility of a former president behind bars.

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While working in New York he lived in a Park Avenue apartment, “in some measure thanks to family money, surrounded by antiques and paintings,†The Times wrote in a profile of him.

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But if and when any of the parties fails to perform their roles correctly, the contract is broken and democracy is jeopardized, at least in some measure.

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Iowa, the nation’s top corn producer, is in the midst of its worst drought in a decade with about 80% of the state in some measure of drought.

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