Sentence examples for ceiling was set from inspiring English sources

When the United Nations returned to Iraq in 2004, the staff ceiling was set at 35 and has slowly risen since then.

The ceiling was set far below the actual economic value of the game's superstars, and the gap between the maximum contract and the market value of elite players has only grown since then.

This year, the ceiling was set at 70,000 refugees.

The highest, hardest glass ceiling was set to be shattered on Tuesday.

Back in 1983, the ceiling was set so the Social Security payroll tax would hit 90percentt of all wages covered by Social Security.

For the health care system in Spain, the 2005 adjusted investment ceiling was set at €34,729/QALYY [ 24].

Another fight over the debt ceiling is set to start after the election when Congress is expected to return for a lame-duck session.

Coveted though they are, unused refugee slots go to waste, and a new ceiling is set at the beginning of each fiscal year.

The clearest sign of the changing perceptions has come in the prices for the bills that the Treasury Department is supposed to repay in the days right after the debt ceiling is set to be reached.

They addressed the environmental and economic impact of the program's cap and trade system, in which a ceiling is set on greenhouse gas emissions and electric utilities pay for their carbon dioxide emissions by buying credits or allowances.

Earlier Friday, in a public event at the University of Maryland, in College Park, Mr. Obama for the first time addressed, and ruled out, the idea that in an emergency the Constitution would empower him to raise the debt limit to prevent default and, as he put it, "basically ignore" the federal law requiring that the debt ceiling be set by statute.