Sentence examples for a successful measure from inspiring English sources

History has taught us that prohibition is hardly a successful measure for combating addiction and, furthermore, those born in 2000 are 14 years old.

In 2003, he backed a successful measure that limited noneconomic damages against physicians and hospitals to a total of $750,000.

Thus, the integrated ecological prevention pool is recommended as a successful measure for controlling the golden mussel invasion and biofouling in water transfer tunnels.

Administrators told of a successful measure recently to severely restrict the budget for the rotating dinners that parents host for the parents of their daughters' classmates, effectively making catered meals off limits and enforcing a potluck practice.

For authorities and health workers, who believe they are now beating back the virus, the cremations – an alien and unwelcome practice in Liberia – were a successful measure that helped contain the disease.

"Some have asked whether I will try to block or filibuster this debate because of my support of the Second Amendment," said Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, who in 2009 sponsored a successful measure that repealed a gun ban in national parks.

The major way of filling as well as a cheap and successful measure against acidification was the diversion of river water into the lakes or their filling with neutral water from mines still operating.

Even with a great success, the venture capital firm can only see the kind of returns that make a fund successful (measured by internal rate of return and multiples of invested capital) if they own a significant amount of the company and buy in at a valuation considerably lower than the ultimate billion-dollar-plus valuation.

According to the Guardian,Beyond the Fence, a musical which opens in London's West End in February, is the result of an investigation that initially began with Cambridge University's Machine Learning Group to determine what makes a musical successful, measuring factors such as song, story, costume, and characters to come up with a recipe for a "good" musical.

Last fall, forces of the religious right backed a successful ballot measure that overruled California's top court by banning same-sex marriage.

"It is an overdue day, but a good day," said State Senator William J. Knight, a Palmdale Republican who was the author of a successful ballot measure in 2000 opposing same-sex marriages.