Sentence examples for clear the measures from inspiring English sources

The IMF says Greece's debt-to-GDP ratio must be cut to 120 percent by 2020, but it is not clear the measures Athens is being called on to enact will be sufficient to hit that target.

House and Senate leaders had expected both chambers to clear the measure this week, sending it to President Bush for his signature.

The Senate will vote today on whether to clear the measure for debate by invoking cloture to block a filibuster by opponents.

Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa and one of the bill's chief sponsors in the Senate, said it was not clear the measure had enough support to overcome a Republican filibuster there.

If the Senate had failed to clear the measure for Mr. Obama's signature, it would have been the second time in two days that crisis-related legislation was blocked in the polarized Congress.

And when it became clear the measure would fail, Murphy woke up to the reality that even national tragedies can be less powerful than legislative inertia.

If he didn't, with the backlog of legislative items already keeping senators in session into their August break, he could just take a failed vote and clear the measure from his calendar.

But it is not clear that the measures can get through Congress.

Yet it's clear that the measures reflect something real, because the behavior differences later translate into academic differences.

Theresa May, the Home Secretary, made clear that the measures would target not only Islamist groups but other extremists.

It is not clear whether the measures, long sought by investors, will be passed in the current winter session.