Sentence examples for firm caps from inspiring English sources

Nations with firm caps on emissions are on track to cut pollution significantly, with little reliance on the bogus credits.

It did not place the firm caps on wholesale prices that consumer groups and the governor had demanded, but the new policy will institute the price restraints that President Bush had insisted he would reject.

Despite Mr. McCain's early focus on climate change and the need for legislation, some environmental groups have sharply chided him lately, pointing to campaign statements seemingly softening his stance on firm caps on heat-trapping gases.

The White House, which has steadfastly resisted California's pleas to impose firm caps on runaway electricity prices, is also worried about the political impact if the administration is seen as ignoring the state's crisis, these advisers said.

The Bush administration has rejected the idea of similar national controls on carbon dioxide emissions, and efforts to get Congressional approval for such firm caps on emissions have repeatedly been defeated.

The House will vote on Tuesday on a plan that would make a debt-ceiling increase conditional on deep spending cuts, firm caps on future spending and congressional passage of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

The firm capped its efforts to stay afloat on Sunday with the rescue deal.

But a firm cap of around $35,000 would hit the affluent even harder than Mr. Obama's proposal, which has previously gotten nowhere in Congress.

Early in his tenure, Mr. Turan hired a consulting firm, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, to collect data, identify waste and think up revenue-generating ideas.

These considerations mean that Rubio should be open to compromise proposals if it means getting Democratic votes for a firm cap on the number of justices.

Indeed, Mr. Court said, it was "a sop to health insurance companies," which guarantees they will have millions of new customers, without a firm cap on how much they can charge.