Sentence examples for agreement the ceiling from inspiring English sources

For 2009, the final capped season played under the expiring agreement, the ceiling was $128 million per team, the floor $112 million.

This time, they had a major incentive to reach an agreement: the debt ceiling had to be raised by the end of the summer.

So politicians struck an agreement: the debt ceiling would be raised – but by January 2 2013, Congress would also have to come up with a plan to trim the national deficit.

As of this month's agreement, the debt ceiling has been raised 79 times since 1960.

A spokesman for Mr Boehner said Mr Lew's letter was a reminder of the need for an agreement to raise the ceiling while at the same time cutting US debt.

Thus, if Congress had not reached an agreement to increase the ceiling, the US might have been in default on its debt (unable to meet its obligations).

Indeed, the Washington Post reported that Trump and Schumer reached a "gentleman's agreement" to work on eliminating the ceiling.

Democrats and Republicans generally talked past one another at the hearing, with little agreement on how to raise the ceiling and how to manage the budget.

The assessment of individual differences in facial expression recognition is normally required to address two major issues: (1) high agreement level (ceiling effect) and (2) differential difficulty levels across emotions.

So what we want to do is to offer the president the ability to move... an agreement on the debt ceiling" and to reopen budget negotiations.

The Super Committee reached no agreement, so the debt ceiling was only raised by $2.1 trillion.