Sentence examples for ceiling is set from inspiring English sources

Another fight over the debt ceiling is set to start after the election when Congress is expected to return for a lame-duck session.

Coveted though they are, unused refugee slots go to waste, and a new ceiling is set at the beginning of each fiscal year.

They addressed the environmental and economic impact of the program's cap and trade system, in which a ceiling is set on greenhouse gas emissions and electric utilities pay for their carbon dioxide emissions by buying credits or allowances.

The clearest sign of the changing perceptions has come in the prices for the bills that the Treasury Department is supposed to repay in the days right after the debt ceiling is set to be reached.

Your professional ceiling is set by you.

In Switzerland, the ceiling is set at nine sessions, corresponding to the median number of sessions.

When the United Nations returned to Iraq in 2004, the staff ceiling was set at 35 and has slowly risen since then.

The ceiling was set far below the actual economic value of the game's superstars, and the gap between the maximum contract and the market value of elite players has only grown since then.

The initial ceiling was set at 1.68 million units and was raised to 1.85 million units in 1984 and then to 2.3 million from the fiscal years 1985 through 1991, before dropping to 1.65 million.

Earlier Friday, in a public event at the University of Maryland, in College Park, Mr. Obama for the first time addressed, and ruled out, the idea that in an emergency the Constitution would empower him to raise the debt limit to prevent default and, as he put it, "basically ignore" the federal law requiring that the debt ceiling be set by statute.

So, this year, while the ceiling was set at 45,000, there have been fewer than 21,300 refugees admitted, with just ten days left in the fiscal year.