6 sentences with 'weights'
Example sentences and phrases with the word weights and other words derived from it.
• « France went from an absolute Catholic monarchy to a radical, secular republic with universal suffrage for men, a new calendar, a new system of weights and measures and the declared aim of conquering the rest of Europe in the name of liberty, all in the space of about five years. »
• « First, the Committee sponsored the creation of the metric system. From a piecemeal scattering of different standards of weights and measures throughout France, the revolutionary government oversaw the invention and use of a simple, unified system based on increments of ten (i.e. 100 centimetres equals 1 metre, 1,000 metres equals 1 kilometre, 1,000 grams equals 1 kilogramme, etc.). Of all the changes instituted by the revolutionary government during its radical phase, this would be the most successful and lasting. »
• « Despite the rapacity of the initial invasions, French rule brought with it certain reforms beneficial to the puppet states created by France, all of them the product of the innovations of the French Revolution a decade earlier: single customs zones, unified systems of weights and measures, written constitutions, equality before the law, the abolition of archaic noble privileges, the secularisation of ecclesiastical property, the abolition of serfdom and religious toleration. »
• « There are five ballast weights in the bottom chassis of the tourist submarine and, in case of emergency, the central ballast can be detached, which would allow a rapid ascent. »
• « The weights tend to be a memory supplanted by digital and analogue apparatus, with computers incorporated into their functions, which by means of graphics that appear on the screens analyse, direct and determine the exercises appropriate to the physical conditions of the gymnast and his metabolic, organic and endurance needs. »
• « Isotopes are bodies that have identical chemical properties but different atomic weights. In fact, almost all natural elements are mixtures of isotopes. »