Sentence examples for expensive measure from inspiring English sources

Ultimately, the Senate approved the less expensive measure; the House quickly followed suit and sent the bill to the president.

Ms. Pelosi is hoping that she can get some to switch those no votes to yes in favor of Mr. Obama's less expensive measure.

The party has been criticised by the opposition for launching the expensive measure – expected to cost an additional $5bn to $6bn – at a time when the rupee has fallen to a historic low and foreign investment has slowed.

As for the lobstermen, they said Mr. Lazio had fought to include $8 million for lobstermen in the emergency spending bill but voted against it because it spun off into a bigger, far more expensive measure.

I should say I like the idea of buying back guns and melting them down, but it is hard to believe that even this expensive measure will capture more than a sliver of the national supply.

This is particularly important to low-income households, which cannot invest in expensive measure for improvement.

Whereas the previous method required measurements of continuous waveforms, including the highly invasive (or expensive) measures of the time varying ventricular volume traces, which require a lot of computation processing.

Fortunately, the high mobility of the cargo renders such drastic and expensive measures unnecessary.

But the industry still has many small and mid-size plants that have not adopted the most expensive measures.

More expensive measures, such as a flat-rate health-care fee and a simpler tax system, will have to wait.

This could be up to £1,000 for measures like insulation, or up to £4,000 for particularly expensive measures like solid wall insulation.