The phrase "aid measure" is not commonly used in written English and may be unclear without context.
It could be used in contexts related to evaluating or assessing assistance or support measures.
Example: "The government implemented an aid measure to support families affected by the recent disaster."
Alternatives: "assistance program" or "support initiative".
By staking his personal prestige on success of the foreign aid measure, he is taking a political gamble.
Mr. Harkin and Mr. Miller said on Thursday that if the financial aid measure was not tied to health care, it might collapse.
The limitations had been attached to the foreign aid measure last year as part of a one-year compromise worked out by the White House and Congressional Republicans to end a stalemate over the federal budget.
The opposition of the Bush administration was pivotal in the House Appropriations Committee's narrow defeat of the aid measure, which would have provided more than $9 billion to help New York recover from the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.
But Assemblyman Joseph J. Roberts Jr., a Camden Democrat and majority leader who sponsored the aid measure, countered, "This package is designed to make the city self-sufficient, so that it doesn't have to come hat in hand to Trenton every year".
The emergency aid measure would help homeowners whose homes have been damaged or destroyed, provide assistance to business owners who experienced losses as well as reinforce shorelines, repair subway and commuter rail systems, fix bridges and tunnels, and reimburse local governments for emergency expenditures.
Other aid measures are expected to help downtown.
German reluctance to agree to aid measures has slowed down European decision-making and contributed to anxiety in financial markets.
He supported extending the Voting Rights Act in 1981, championed many foreign aid measures and family leave legislation, and backed Mr. Clinton over a ban on assault weapons.
He said the EU believed it could help avoid a further escalation of violence, while also working on humanitarian aid measures in Gaza and Lebanon.
Because of its enduring view that "food and material aid measures are better and more efficiently delivered by individual member states through their own social programmes".
