Sentence examples for ceiling the issue from inspiring English sources

The professional investors agreed that despite prolonged negotiations over raising the federal debt ceiling, the issue will ultimately be resolved and have little impact on investors.

As recently as this summer, when the headline battle was over the debt ceiling, the issue driving the political debate was government spending and how to cut it.

"Then they found out that the debt ceiling was the issue," she added.

Though the leaders came to Washington to talk about the international recovery, "they found out that the debt ceiling was the issue," Ms. Lagarde said in an interview on the NBC News program "Meet the Press".

WASHINGTON -- In the wake of news that both the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve rejected the minting of a trillion dollar coin as a solution to help raise the debt ceiling, the White House issued the following statement to The Huffington Post.

"Leaving the ceiling unchanged takes the issue off the table," said Frank Verrastro, director of the energy and national security program and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in a phone interview.

Wall extended his index finger to the ceiling and suggested the issue would have to be promoted to a higher power.

And although Major Bovarnick, the detention center's legal adviser, said he told Captain Beiring after the first death "that there would be no shackling to the ceiling ever again," the issue was largely ignored in the initial investigation.

Brit Hume, who is just about as dumb as a box of tulip bulbs on the matter of the debt ceiling, grouses that the issue has become a loser for the GOP, because of a sustained campaign from the White House, and the media, to point out that breaching the debt ceiling would be a huge disaster for the global economy.

Still, Luo says others have told him that the ceiling exists and that the issue seems to be on people's minds.

The bill would have cut $2.2tn from deficits and raised the debt ceiling by $2.7tn, meaning the issue would not have to be revisited until after the 2012 elections.