Sentence examples for ceiling stood from inspiring English sources

I left the cigar smouldering in the armrest ashtray, straightened my tie and – minding my head on the low ceiling – stood up to visit the flight deck.

He designed the interior of the palace with a sumptuous Mudejar-style decoration, where the wood and iron coffered ceilings stand out.

Sculptor Fabrice Le Nezet has transformed an average London underground station into a surreal world where ceilings stand without columns and metal bends like rubber under their weight.

But a government shutdown or a debt ceiling stand-off could still scupper those plans.

Last August, Standard & Poor's shocked markets and politicians by stripping America of its AAA credit rating because of the debt ceiling stand-off.

You just have to look at the consumer confidence figures to see how they plummeted after the debt ceiling stand-off.

The House GOP budget stays within the contours of the across-the-board spending cuts, known as sequestration, that were triggered by a budget agreement reached after the debt ceiling stand-off of 2011.

With sequestration upon us, and the labour market far from immune, combined with the depressive effect of the payrolls tax cut expiry, we envisage a period of much softer data and rising anxiety as we head towards the May 19 debt ceiling stand-off.

Quite frankly, it's unconscionable that your members are careening towards shutting down the government tonight, and worse, threatening to send the U.S. into default on October 17th in the debt ceiling stand-off.

WASHINGTON -- The rush to frame the winners and losers in the debt ceiling deal stands in stark contrast to the protracted negotiations over the debt ceiling themselves.

The "debt ceiling" now stands at $14.3 trillion, about $600 billion above the current level of the debt.