Sentence examples for Impose ceilings from inspiring English sources

While the bill would authorize the Pesident to issue orders stabilizing prices "at levels not less than" those of May 25, the President's orders would actually impose ceilings.

As governor of Massachusetts, he stayed out of a regional "cap and trade" plan by Northeastern states to impose ceilings on emissions by electric utilities and let companies trade their emission allowances.

Clinton's immediate objective in his trip to Capitol Hill was to deflect growing pressure by moderate and conservative Democrats to scale back his proposed tax increases and to impose ceilings on the future growth of big entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare and food stamps.

It imposed ceilings on banks' holdings of foreign-exchange derivatives, because the banks tend to hedge those positions by borrowing too much from abroad.Such measures do not always work for long: South Korea's ceilings were set as a multiple of the banks' capital, so the banks just raised their capital.

The court was being urged in the three cases to impose a broad standard for judges and juries, particularly in states that have not imposed ceilings on damage awards, not to rule on the constitutionality of such limits.

Stricter rules for future bids were imposed, with ceilings imposed on the value of gifts IOC members could accept from bid cities.

He shipped the 300-year-old Joglo to Bali, where we admired its imposing ceiling of tumpang sari (essential layers), carved from one piece of wood, held up by four central pillars, the soko guru.

Many of the tests hit the imposed ceiling on maximum number of samples, with a total number of >30 million samples across tests.

Mr. Duhalde said in the newspaper interview that although he knows "something has to be done," he does not intend to impose price ceilings because "there is no way to control them".

On Capitol Hill, the heads of appropriations committees can already be heard complaining that Congress might have to impose budget ceilings in the spring to help pay for the tax cut.

But to put some arbitrary cap on what one individual can earn is to impose a ceiling on vaulting ambition and the link between big risks and considerable rewards.