Sentence examples for ceiling to avoid from inspiring English sources

The administration is urging Congress to raise the debt ceiling to avoid a default.

After months of talks Congress increased the limit on the federal debt ceiling to avoid a default just ahead of a Treasury deadline.

Easier said than done, especially when trying to abide by a $189 million salary ceiling to avoid a big luxury tax payment.

Does he favor increasing the minimum wage, which would offer some direct help to low-paid American workers, or raising the debt ceiling to avoid a market meltdown?

By that he meant that Mr. McConnell worked to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling to avoid default.

At that time, the Obama administration was warning that the government could reach its legal borrowing limit within a few months and urged Congress to raise the debt ceiling to avoid a default.

The DINDs should move on the walls and ceilings to avoid interference with the movement of human users.

They wanted to raise the ceiling enough to avoid putting their members through another such vote before the midterm elections.

Interestingly, the budget proposed by President Obama does specify where cuts would be made, including those called for in the Budget Control Act, the measure approved by Congress and signed into law on August 2, 2011, as part of the deal to raise the debt ceiling and to avoid default on government debt.

If the House can pass a clean debt ceiling increase to avoid default and allow the United States to meet its existing obligations, we will be happy to consider it," Adam Jentleson, Reid's spokesman, said in a statement.

Mr. Obama has repeatedly called on Congress to raise the borrowing limit, known as the debt ceiling, by Tuesday to avoid any uncertainty about the government's ability to meet its obligations.