Sentence examples for ambitious measures from inspiring English sources

But more ambitious measures have fallen short.

In recent years ambitious measures have been taken to cope.

Chinese officials insist the carbon intensity cut will require ambitious measures.

It was naïve to expect to get ambitious measures through Congress in a debate clogged up with scientific detail.

That is the trouble when you draft ambitious measures designed to bring Europe closer to the people.

"This government is therefore very pleased to support Bob Blackman's private member's bill, with its ambitious measures to help reduce homelessness".

What Mr. Gingrich is contemplating, his associates say, is a much less ambitious measure.

A new framework for goal setting for improved alignment uses the acronym FAST: set goals frequently, make them ambitious, measure them with specific metrics, and make them transparent.

The stopgap bill eliminates $4 billion in spending by cutting programs Obama had already targeted - a far less ambitious measure than House Republicans wanted.

His economic team in place, Obama has tasked his aides with assembling an ambitious measure to pump money swiftly into the battered economy, but also create 2.5 million new jobs, send a tax cut to the poor and middle class, and make massive government investments in energy-saving and other technologies designed to pay for themselves in the long run.

But such judgments are speculative, and though pollution is a factor, a bigger one is simply how much fresh water is available.The most ambitious measure is the "water poverty index" developed by a team led by Caroline Sullivan and Jeremy Meigh at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Wallingford, England.