Sentence examples for adopts hard from inspiring English sources

But, he said, the Hurricane Sandy bill followed a pattern established in the era of Tom DeLay, the House Republican leader from 2003 to 2005: Congress adopts hard caps on spending to prove its fiscal discipline, then uses emergency spending bills to get around those caps.

The VAD-based approach adopts hard speech presence probability, and it can only update noise estimation when speech is absent.

Both sides have adopted hard lines on these two issues, even as some progress was being made on other sensitive topics, like wages.

But getting the wireless phone industry to adopt hard drives is a bit more complicated, he says.

When looking at the ever-complex world of the bugs living inside us, and the nuanced way these bacteria interact with our bodies, there are concerns about adopting hard and fast rules about what does and does not work.

According to the Washington Post, when McCain's top advisers told him that his only hope of winning the election was to adopt hard-right tactics, McCain agreed.

Mr. Finkelstein adopted hard-line conservative views early in life and, in his teens, supported the 1964 presidential bid of conservative Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.).

On many of the most important constitutional questions touching on federalism, the separation of powers, and individual rights this constraint creates a strong pressure to adopt hard-edged categorical rules, or defer to the political process, or both.

Many Democrats have dismissed the push by Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants who was elected in 2010 as a conservative darling after adopting hard-line positions on illegal immigration.

Insurers have an incentive to compete for market share by offering the lower prices made possible when they adopt hard-to-detect reductions in the quality of their coverage.

As the incursion in April by a few dozen Chinese soldiers into disputed territory along the border showed, indications of China's aggressive intent could galvanize Indian public opinion, push New Delhi towards adopting harder positions with Beijing and compel India to cooperate more closely with other countries that share its concerns about China's rise.