| In the metric system, employed for most official uses in continental Europe, the grade of gold jewelry is expressed in millesimals. |
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| The reluctance of lawgivers to push conversion to the metric system is due mainly of these three objections by the fundamentalist lobby. |
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| The metric system is a system of measurement of decimal units based on the meter. |
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| In the metric system, there are 454 grams to a pound but there are 7,000 grains. |
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| Elaborated between 1790 and 1799, the decimal metric system of weights and measures was zealously promoted under Napoleon. |
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| In the 1790s the French officially adopted a metric system based on the length of a quadrant of the Earth's meridian. |
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| He ushered in the metric system, made French an official language, and enshrined a Canadian bill of rights in the 1982 constitution. |
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| These Granules have been divided, according to the metric system, into strengths of half milligram, one milligram, and centigram. |
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| Or could we say that New York is not an international city because it still uses the English measurement system instead of the metric system? |
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| The metric system and the imperial system symbolize beautifully the conflict between the European and the Anglo-Saxon method of thought. |
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| Mouton stated that there was a marvellous regularity in nature which made a metric system of measurement based on nature fit in with human activity. |
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| Chafee is likely the only presidential candidate to endorse the metric system and equivocate on Isis. |
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| Does the metric system cause any effect on that, the fact that the U. S. is not on the metric system? |
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| Some physicists like to use angstroms for wavelengths, while others use the strict metric system, so you will also find wavelengths given in nanometers. |
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| Then again, as a onetime Republican who opposed the Iraq war and champions the metric system, Chafee doesn't seem scared of an uphill battle. |
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| It is very important that farmers selling livestock and other products start to think in terms of the metric system of weights and measures such as kilos and litres. |
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| He instituted the Civil Code and founded the lycées, the Bank of France, the franc germinal and the metric system. |
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| You see, Canadians use the metric system for units of measurement. |
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| They have adopted the use the official metric system for the government representatives and other outsiders. |
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| In 1884, the metric system became legal in Great Britain, and thus also legal in Canada. |
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| They worked on the metric system and advocated a decimal base. |
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| Because of its simplicity and universality, the decimal metric system spread rapidly outside France. |
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| A shift to the metric system by the government in 1956 forced the communities to learn to convert from their system to the new one. |
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| Then the Rhode Island Democrat urged the United States to adopt the metric system. |
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| Measures and units: All measures and units should follow the metric system. |
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| They are already familiar with the calculations involved in the metric system through the day-to-day use of decimalized currency. |
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| The Celsius scale is in general use wherever the metric system of units has been adopted, and it is used in scientific work everywhere. |
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| The imperial units are particulary annoying for us fans of the metric system. |
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| The user fees are being modified as a result of the conversion to the metric system not as the result of a fee increase or decrease. |
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| Areas annexed by France during the Napoleonic era were the first to inherit the metric system. |
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| One aspect of this work was the suggestion of a decimal system of measurement, such as the metric system. |
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| Their political and administrative systems were modernized, the metric system introduced, and trade barriers reduced. |
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| Abbreviation for milligram, a unit of weight in the metric system. |
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| Yeah, that worked out so well with the metric system. |
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| He also pulled off a joke about the metric system. |
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| Mathematics – Create a poster explaining the metric system. |
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| Personally I prefer the metric system, but there are some areas where the very nature of the work being undertaken necessitates using imperial measurements. |
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| In 1832, Gauss strongly promoted the application of this metric system, together with the second defined in astronomy, as a coherent system of units for the physical sciences. |
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| For example, if your readers are more familiar with the imperial system than with the metric system, they will more easily retain the information that a person is 5 feet, 6 inches tall rather than 1.70 metres tall. |
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| Other printouts are printed in metric system units. |
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| No one pays attention to Canada's use of the metric system, or the fact that drivers and their passengers automatically attach their seatbelts, or that there is no longer smoking in restaurants. |
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| People were cursing, screaming and complaining about the metric system, about having to change miles to kilometres and about having to buy new measuring cups. |
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| Although a simultaneous attempt to impose a 10-hour day and a standard 30-day month failed, the simplicity and adaptability of the metric system gradually won it recognition the world over. |
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| Although schools now refer to a metric system and many have grown up with these measurements, the principle for many others to use imperial measurements remains. |
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| In the metric system the standard quantity is 1 square meter. |
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| Their political and administrative systems were modernised, the metric system introduced, and trade barriers reduced. |
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| The official introduction of the metric system in September 1799 was unpopular in large sections of French society. |
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| The metric system is an internationally agreed decimal system of measurement. |
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| Although the metric system has changed and developed since its inception, its basic concepts have hardly changed. |
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| The base units used in the metric system must be realisable, ideally with reference to natural phenomena rather than unique artefacts. |
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| By 1872, the only principal European countries not to have adopted the metric system were Russia and the United Kingdom. |
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| Reports from Myanmar suggest that the country is also planning to adopt the metric system. |
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| The 1796 Games also marked the introduction of the metric system into sport. |
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| Napoleon was a champion of the metric system and had no use for the old yardsticks. |
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| It was used along with the metric system for a while but is now long discontinued. |
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| Australia's switch to the metric system in the 1970s changed the country's vocabulary of measurement from imperial towards metric measures. |
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| However per the December 1976 Weights and Measures Amendment Act, all foodstuffs must be retailed using the metric system. |
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| It was first adopted in Germany in 1922 and generally spread as nations adopted the metric system. |
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| The metric system of measurement was first given a legal basis in 1795 by the French Revolutionary government. |
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| The bio metric system will be installed in government hospitals in Rawalpindi, Lahore and Faisalabad in the first phase. |
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| The reason for the failure of the metric system in America has now been revealed in the book Whatever Happened To The Metric System? |
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| According to ICAO, the new metric system defines how aircraft CO2 emissions can be evaluated in a manner that is relevant to its operation. |
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| The original French metric system used the litre as a base unit. |
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| During its evolution, the metric system has adopted many units of measure. |
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| Some other jurisdictions, such as Hong Kong, have laws mandating or permitting other systems of measurement in parallel with the metric system in some or all contexts. |
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| In our own rational, revolutionary republic, Thomas Jefferson considered the new metric system an admirable advance over old English feet, pints, and pounds. |
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| From its beginning, the main features of the metric system were the standard set of interrelated base units and a standard set of prefixes in powers of ten. |
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| Other units of measure were rounded in a similar manner prior to the definitive introduction of the metric system across parts of Europe in the middle of the 19th century. |
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| The terms are essentially equivalent as long as the metric system is used. |
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| The British Post Office have used the metric system for yoinks. |
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| Obviously, Tammekann got these erroneous figures when he transferred the isohypses given in inches on the topographic maps of the General Staff of Russia to the metric system. |
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| Norway joined the Scandinavian Monetary Union in 1875 and introduced the Norwegian krone with a gold standard, along with the metric system being introduced. |
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| However, in countries where the metric system was established well before the adoption of the SI standard other multiples were already established, their use remains common. |
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