Sentence examples for establishing a ceiling from inspiring English sources
He also suggested establishing a ceiling on the number of troops to be sent to Vietnam.
The theory is that by establishing a ceiling on the national debt Congress imposes on itself a limit on what it will spend, but in practice it works the other way around: Congress enacts the spending legislation and then raises the debt ceiling to pay for it.
By the afternoon, the DRL team had clocked a high speed of 163.5 mph, establishing a ceiling for drone enthusiasts around the world.
We know this because as soon as the European Central Bank (ECB) wanted to do so, it put an end to these crises in a matter of weeks, in July-August of 2012, by effectively establishing a ceiling on the interest rates of Italian and Spanish bonds -- something it could have done at any time in the prior three years.
The reform law of 1946 established a ceiling on individual holdings and provided for expropriation and resale of excess land to the tenants against long-term payments.
Defendants have hoped that lighter punishments in other insider trading cases, coupled with accompanying criticisms of the sentencing guidelines themselves, would establish a ceiling on what is permissible.
The rules establish a ceiling for phone calls to jails and prisons that's based on the number of inmates housed by those institutions.
Like Europe's system, it would establish a ceiling for emissions and let companies buy or sell extra allocations, or credits.
But Zuckerberg's remarks today establish a ceiling in the tens of thousands in addition to the floor of several hundred.
While this process provides important flexibility, this 4th category for pediatric research, at least in principle, does not establish a ceiling on the risks to which pediatric research subjects may be exposed for the benefit of others.
A fourth thing Congress could do is establish a ceiling - for example, a billion dollars - of what the Administration can spend on the Libya war without further authorization.
