A generation ago, its people produced, on average, about one-sixteenth as much as Americans did; now they produce about one‑sixth. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"If the government were to shut down, I don't think it's because we asked for too much," said Rep. Scott DesJarlais Tenn., noting that the GOP plan would cut less than "one-sixteenth" of the $1.6 trillion budget deficit projected for this year. ❋ Unknown (2011)
With a desperately poor economy one-sixteenth the size of Colombia's, Afghanistan cannot sustain the army it needs without help. ❋ Michael O'Hanlon (2011)
Thus, his children by Mrs. Ah Chun were one thirty-second Polynesian, one-sixteenth Italian, one sixteenth ❋ Unknown (2010)
But Ah Chun's word went forth, as a whisper, and Captain Higginson forgot his rear-admiralship and his high family and took to wife three hundred thousand dollars and a refined and cultured girl who was one thirty-second Polynesian, one-sixteenth Italian, one - sixteenth Portuguese, eleven thirty-seconds English and Yankee, and one-half Chinese. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A one-sixteenth share, or about 50 flying hours per year, of a six-passenger Learjet 40 XR currently costs $400,000 at Flexjet, plus a monthly management fee of $7,850 and per-hour operating cost of $3,113, including fuel. ❋ Scott McCartney (2011)
Dalglish has had 180 minutes in charge of Liverpool, or one-sixteenth of the entire Roy Hodgson era. ❋ Unknown (2011)
One-eighth and one-sixteenth Hawaiian were they, which meant that seven-eighths or fifteen-sixteenths white blood informed that skin yet failed to obliterate the modicum of golden tawny brown of Polynesia. ❋ Unknown (2010)
“For the purpose of this act, the term ‘white person’ shall apply only to the person who has no trace whatsoever of any blood other than Caucasian; but persons who have one-sixteenth or less of the blood of the American Indian and have no other non-Caucasic blood shall be deemed to be white persons.” ❋ Buzzy Jackson (2010)
The record showed an injection of strychnine, one-sixteenth of a grain, at eight-forty, twenty minutes previously. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Southern literature at its most gothic has sagas that reveal a character's secret one-sixteenth of African blood. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Under current treatment standards, isolated tumor cells — less than about one-sixteenth of an inch — in the lymph nodes are generally ignored and the lymph node is said to be cancer-free. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I don't want to sit here examining everyone's family tree and finding out who is one-sixteenth Dominican. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Well, if she was half-Scots and half-Creole, she certainly wasn't "black" - unless you go by the old American south definition of anything over one-sixteenth Negro made you black by definition. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In 1910, the state codified what had already become custom: white was defined as having less than one-sixteenth "Negro ancestry." ❋ Unknown (2008)
According to the World Bank, Thailand's per capita income is $2,720 -- roughly one-sixteenth U.S. per capita income. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The DLR165, powered by four AAA batteries, also allows you to step off distances while you walk and boasts an accuracy of within one-sixteenth of an inch up to 165 feet, touts the company. ❋ Unknown (2008)