Sentence examples for ceiling meaning from inspiring English sources

The striker, who has been such a revelation this season, is understood to be demanding a contract that is well above Stoke's wage ceiling, meaning that talks have been put on hold for a few weeks.

They would not count against the current immigration ceiling, meaning a likely hike in the overall number of immigrants allowed to stay in the country.

(Presumably, few Americans hold strong opinions about the timing of raising the debt ceiling, meaning that any survey about the deal is likely to serve as a referendum more about personalities than about the issues at hand).

The nights tended to be held in basement clubs with very low ceilings, meaning the bass would be reverberating through your ribcage the moment you stepped in the door.

As lawyers for the inmates told the Court, it has no pain-relieving properties, hasn't been approved by the F.D.A. to maintain general anesthesia in surgical operations, and has a "ceiling effect," meaning that even a large dose of it may not put someone under.

As the scores range from 0−48, the OHS includes a ceiling effect, meaning that patients with a higher preoperative score have a lower potential of change than patients with a low preoperative score.

As obvious as the consensus opinion was and is -- the painting as a statement on the horror of war -- Picasso wouldn't put that ceiling of meaning on it, instead tossing everybody back into the abyss of dealing with it on very personal terms.

Second, the results showed an apparent CD-RISC ceiling effect, meaning that it is not a reliable test for assessing or detecting high resilience levels.

The EQ-5D, however, might suffer from a ceiling effect meaning that a large number of respondents suffering from mild manifestations of depressive symptoms report no problems.

This issue is due in part to floor and ceiling effects, meaning that the sKS test statistic will be small if it is in either tail of the distribution.

For the three studies [ 33, 34, 38] that did not find such a positive effect, one study [ 33] reported a possible ceiling effect meaning that both the intervention group and control group had a very high baseline patient satisfaction level potentially impeding any demonstration of a significant difference between two arms during the follow-up period.