Sentence examples for ceiling laid down from inspiring English sources
This is right and proper during a downturn, but it risks pushing deficits above the ceiling laid down in Europe's "stability pact".
Portugal's prime minister said today that when final figures are available, he believes his country's budget deficit for last year will be about 3.9percentt of gross domestic product, well above the 3percentt ceiling laid down in the euro rules, known as the stability and growth pact.
However, national emission ceilings laid down in European Commission's Directive status reports are not based on actual recorded pollution but on computed theoretical modelling such as e.g. TREMOVE, TREMOD or COPERT[78].
And they should avoid rhetoric such as the extreme conditions Mr Boehner recently laid down for raising the debt ceiling again that thrills partisans but makes compromise impossible.Kicking the can three months down the road is not ideal.
The scorekeeper laid down his pencil.
Rivers has already laid down the law.
He laid down the ground rules.
Mr. Boehner has laid down his markers.
They laid down a few simple guidelines.
