Sentence examples for contested measures from inspiring English sources

Among the most hotly contested measures was one that required police officers to electronically record homicide interrogations, a requirement intended to reduce the number of forced or false confessions.

Now, Chinese and foreign health officials say that some of those contested measures — more easily adopted by an authoritarian state — may have helped slow the spread of the disease in the world's most populous country.

Among other hotly contested measures, the bill would cut subsidies for Amtrak by 25percentt and slash funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects.

Yet even House Republicans say prospects for the most contested measures have faded with the price scare.

A hotly contested measure that would have limited the state's "three-strikes law" was also defeated by a margin of 6percentt.

Committees in the House and the Senate overwhelmingly endorsed the Clinton administration's China trade bill today, contributing to a growing sense among its backers that the ardently contested measure is headed for passage.

Minutes before final consideration of a bitterly contested measure to give President Bush expanded trade negotiating authority, Mr. DeMint switched to a yes from a no, providing the swing vote in a 215-214 outcome.

PARIS, April 2 — President Jacques Chirac on Sunday signed into law a fiercely contested measure meant to make hiring more flexible, even as students and unions vowed to carry on nationwide strikes and demonstrations against it.

Last month, Orange's Board of County Commissioners voted to put off a ballot vote on a hotly contested measure that would require employers to provide workers with one hour of sick leave for every 37 hours worked, capped at 56 per year.

Attorneys for Vivid Entertainment and affiliates of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation told a federal magistrate judge last week that they had reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit that contested Measure B, the initiative approved by county voters in 2012, according to papers filed in federal court.

A highly contested bill to require stores to keep cigarettes out of sight has been quietly dropped from a package of anti-tobacco measures that would make New York the first city to raise the legal smoking age to 21.