"People are beginning to feel that more calm, realistic measures are necessary."

This system gave a more realistic measure of power that customers actually saw.

Some are straightforward - for example, applying more realistic measures of depreciation to business equipment.

The global license is a realistic measure in the long run.

According to the agency, only one in four British businesses has "taken realistic measures to tackle the bug within their own organizations."

Advocating comprehensive and realistic measures for reducing the harmful effects of earthquakes.

So to avoid running afoul of the court, any realistic measure would have to focus on limiting donations, rather than campaign spending.

By any realistic measure, the family's power is finished.

When Parliament proposes completely realistic concrete measures, they are rejected.

Yet many economists consider it perhaps the most realistic measure of how much American companies actually make.