Sentence examples for a measure to replace the from inspiring English sources

In 1969, the House passed a measure to replace the electoral college by a nationwide popular vote.

IN an election that held few surprises for Westchester County, voters returned nearly all incumbent candidates to office, passed a measure to replace the decaying Westchester County penitentiary and approved a variety of local ballot propositions, including seven initiatives to buy open space for land preservation.

For the past year it has been researching changes to secondary school accountability, and lobbied successfully for a progress measure to replace the maths and English GCSE threshold as the key indicator for school performance.

Her stance emerged just as Congressional leaders and the White House opened delicate negotiations over a new war-financing measure to replace the one that Mr. Bush vetoed Tuesday.

Does anybody still call dollars "skins"? Those days may be numbered if a measure to replace dollar bills with coins passes.

Instead, they agreed, the talks will aim at a more modest, confidence-building measure to replace the sequestration cuts in 2014.

Proposition 34, the measure to replace the death penalty in California with a sentence of life without the possibility of parole, appears to be struggling.

They'll also examine mass incarceration as a continuing method of racial control and discrimination and recommend measures to replace the Cradle to School to Prison PipelineTM with one to college and productive work.

According to the Times, negotiators on both sides have already ruled out making any significant changes to retirement programs and are instead focussing on "more modest confidence building measures to replace the sequestration cuts in 2014".

This model substitutes simpler, systems measures to replace the more complex, step-wise, mechanistic measures used elsewhere, [e.g. [ 13, 14]].

"The education secretary is totally isolated in his view that the English Baccalaureate certificates are a suitable measure to replace GCSEs," she said.