Safety comes from being able quickly to gauge the situation and determine one's place vis- - -vis the competition.

Along with five others, she set up a group in 1948, which tried to gauge the situation and get the school back on track.

Knowledge about events to come may allow one to gauge the situation and make decisions from a position of strength.

Ring potential students to gauge interest before booking anything.

Use the like button sparingly until you can gauge interest.

The bank has already circulated a teaser document among prospective bidders to gauge interest.

A month ago it wrote to its 2.1m customers to gauge interest in a float.

After researching online and learning of its resurgence, they posted fliers in their neighborhood to gauge interest.

A mini wind gauge measures the strength of the surrounding breeze and a small receptor works out the potential amount of solar energy.

The strain gauge measures the deformation (strain) as an electrical signal, because the strain changes the effective electrical resistance of the wire.

Each gauge measures a force by the stretching of an electrical element or foil in the gauge.

Companies seeking permission for onshore developments would need to hold hearings, put up posters or publish notices to gauge opinion in advance.

Trying to gauge opinion in a society so tightly controlled by indoctrination and censorship was impossible, she said.

Conducting an internal survey to gauge opinion would be a good way of finding out what employees would like to see improved in terms of communication.

Why not canvass the 16,000 season ticket-holders with an honest set of questions to gauge opinion?

She also wanted to carry out a big survey of customers to gauge opinion on where the company could improve.

There seems to be a degree of insecurity and that becomes all the more apparent with each attempt to gauge his mood.

Watch his body language, gauge his mood, look for signs of his inner state.

Veteran auction-goers have learnt to gauge the mood of their fellow bidders in order to outbid them.

Even without reaching the training pitch, you can gauge the mood from the faces and voices of the security staff, the receptionists and the press officers alike.

While a corner shop owner may rely on chatting to customers to gauge their mood, supermarkets have a much more scientific way of telling how prosperous you are feeling.

If you have an astronomy retailer near you, it's worth visiting so that you can gauge the size and practicalities of these instruments.

Some may also be used to gauge the size of crochet hooks.

A simple, non-scientific scheme to gauge the size of the audience was hatched.

First, the scientists gauged the size of the tusk sockets.

The system gauges the size of a passenger and based on that whether an air bag should be deployed.

The retail prices inflation gauge, which includes more housing costs, also held steady at 5.2 per cent.

The air inflation gauge displays the pressure in pounds per square inch (psi).

Apart from rising hourly wages, other inflation gauges, including wholesale prices, have surged in recent months.

Retail sales soared above all expectations last month while a key gauge of housing confidence slipped to its lowest level in two years.

Anxieties rose yesterday that deepening recession could push the economy into the grip of deflation after a key gauge of price pressures showed inflation tumbling to its lowest since 1960.

But a key gauge of measuring lending profitability fell.

A key gauge of currency risk, which reflects market anxieties, rose to 17.8 per cent yesterday, its highest since the last election.

Core private sector machinery orders, a key gauge of corporate capital spending in the coming six to nine months, fell by 5.2 per cent, worse than expected.