Sentence examples for artificial ceilings from inspiring English sources

They're just likely to be disguised as artificial "ceilings," "triggers," or other gimmicks designed to protect politicians from accountability.

2. Abolish the artificial ceiling on national insurance contributions: This is a regressive tax.

The Tau-U score distribution did not show the artificial ceiling shown by all other nonoverlap techniques.

Republican leaders in the State Senate and House have called for another special session to cap the wholesale tax by establishing an artificial ceiling price for tax calculation purposes.

The would-be competitors, who all promised robust competition, discovered that they could not price retail power below this artificial ceiling and still make adequate profits.

This rises to 8.61% for an annual income of £24,000, but due to an artificial ceiling it falls to 3.91% for someone on annual earnings of £100,000.

Wages for the braceros were set by law, around $1 an hour in California, and in effect established an artificial ceiling on the wages of American farm workers, keeping them in poverty.

I don't remember now what season of the year it was, but I do remember that the fluorescent lights in the lecture room were on in the middle of the day because the sky was so dark outside, navy-blue clouds pressing close to the earth like an artificial ceiling.

The vast majority of Internet users will never bump up against their artificial ceiling and, for the most part, it would work.

A rising sum of public debt flows straight from deeper budgetary choices and is not the cause of them; the over-elaborate obsession we see with the public debt and its artificial ceiling is but a ruse to divert attention from the root evil of excess government.

Censoring of the data by the artificial ceiling of AAA in A levels therefore distorts the estimates of effect size.