Sentence examples for extending a policy from inspiring English sources

Most recently, the Fed announced in August that it intended to hold short-term interest rates near zero until at least the middle of 2013, extending a policy that has been in place since December 2008.

To help reduce unemployment, the Fed said it would also continue monthly purchases of $85 billion in Treasury securities and mortgage-backed securities until job market conditions improved, extending a policy announced in September.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said on Monday that he planned to make it harder this year for fourth and sixth graders who score poorly on standardized tests to move on to the next grade, extending a policy that his re-election team hopes will help him curry favor with voters.

In 2007, an Army staff sergeant with two combat tours went absent without leave after his term of service was extended, a policy known as stop-loss.

Deal Professor » Fed Expected to Expand 'Operation Twist'  |  Economists surveyed by Bloomberg News predicted that the Federal Reserve, which makes an announcement on Wednesday, would extend a policy intended to lower long-term interest rates.

SPORTSTUESDAY, PAGE D1 Harder Road to 8th Grade Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg plans to extend a policy now in place for struggling third and fifth graders by holding back failing seventh-grade students.

That thinking underpinned the "extend a hand" policy towards Iran.

Sens. Max Baucus and Chuck Grassley announced a bipartisan agreement for a "jobs" bill, tracking the earlier draft version which Sen. Jon Kyl accurately described as not really a jobs bill but an exercise in "extending a bunch of tax policy and related items that we need to do".

Threadneedle Street said it had left the bank rate unchanged at 0.5% following the meeting of its nine-strong monetary policy committee, extending a run that began more than six years ago when Gordon Brown was prime minister and Alistair Darling chancellor.

The decision by Xanterra, which holds restaurant and hotel concessions at national and state parks including Yellowstone, Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon, extends an existing policy of using seafood from sustainable fisheries.

The online problems are posed such that only the inputs which extend an operation policy resulting from an experiment designed offline are optimized.