Sentence examples for bag of measures from inspiring English sources

The bill, which will go to parliament in late January, is a mixed bag of measures.

Indeed, far too much illiberalism was evident... "So this was the mixed bag of measures that Mr Blair hopes will set his legacy in stone.

The bill is a grab bag of measures to enlist law enforcement and government at every level to expose and expel the undocumented.

Amnesty International warned that it was dangerous to rush through "this grab bag of measures without proper scrutiny or challenge", and warned that the exclusion and passport-seizure powers were "pushing at the boundaries of international law".

President François Hollande, who recently acknowledged that the economic situation was serious, is offering a grab bag of measures meant to stimulate growth, including a program to create thousands of subsidized jobs for the rising ranks of unemployed youths.

It is an ambitious grab bag of measures that includes $10 billion to promote housing investment, $8 billion to create one million jobs, another $8 billion to assist other Asian nations in crisis and $48 billion in financing to alleviate a nationwide credit squeeze.

He has also vowed to get tough with individuals who park funds in tax havens to avoid American tax, and proposes an extra 800 inspectors to root out the scofflaws.If the goal is to improve the tax code, this grab-bag of measures is deeply disappointing.

The omnibus bill was a grab bag of different measures, some of which teachers liked and others they hated.

It is a grab bag of enforcement measures that will be useful for tough-talking campaign commercials, but will not actually solve anything.

Rather than offer a grab bag of tax measures as our substitute stimulus, we should have rallied to a payroll tax holiday: a clear and powerful single alternative idea.

You may remember that the law, SB1070, signed by Gov. Jan Brewer in 2010, was a grab bag of enforcement measures meant to provoke a mass exodus of undocumented immigrants, which Arizona Republicans, including Ms. Brewer, have routinely depicted as a terrifying horde of narco bosses, drug mules, gangbangers and terrorist assassins spilling over the border.