Sentence examples for ceiling period from inspiring English sources

In December 2012, Jay Carney, the White House spokesman, flatly renounced the 14th Amendment option, saying: "I can say that this administration does not believe that the 14th Amendment gives the president the power to ignore the debt ceiling — period".

Which is why, again, I think the White House should be drawing its public line on policy rather than on process and principle, and attacking/highlighting the House Republicans' substantive intransigence rather than drawing a "no negotiations around the debt ceiling, period," line.

For some of his members, the "walkaway value" in any negotiations was basically no deal at all, because they had promised to never vote to raise the debt ceiling, period, full stop, or to vote for any deal that funded Obamacare.

Queen Elizabeth's and Prince Phillip's portraits hang in the lobby -- a grand, two-story space with a hand-painted ceiling, period settees, circular banquets, and crystal chandeliers.

Retention was quantified as either the step-down latency in the test session or the number of animals that did not step down during the ceiling period.

The number of animals that did not step down in the ceiling period was lower (P < 0.001) in the LMH (one of eight) than in the C group (19 of 23), also in the 1-h test.

There are huge windows, high ceilings, period lighting, shiny wood floors and an exposed brick wall.

Just ask Claudio Rangoni Machiavelli and his wife, Tiziana Quartieri, who for the past 27 years have lived in a building with a staircase fit for a castle, frescoed vaulted ceilings, period furniture and 17th-century tapestries and paintings.

A spectacularly restored mansion (built in 1843) houses the delightful inn, which features 15-foot ceilings, period architecture, historic decor, and plenty of southern charm.

Behind the stream of wagons, buggies and carts are large blowups, stretching from the floor nearly to the ceiling, of period photographs showing the streets of New York during those turn-of-the-century years.

"This administration does not believe that the 14th Amendment gives the president the power to ignore the debt ceiling -- period," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said early in December.