I thoroughly gauged his disposition from his behaviour, and saw at once it would be folly to attempt humouring him.
Within this, success is gauged by skyscrapers and super-luxury apartments that come with record prices attached.
The survey — with more than 8,000 respondents from Canada, France, Germany, India, Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States — gauged economic and labor-related competitive spirit by drilling down into "industriousness," which describes the level to which a country was "hard-working, innovative and constantly creating new ideas/products," according to the survey.
In the process, it was measured how much the students worry, ruminate or obsess about something -- three measures by which repetitive negative thinking is gauged.