Sentence examples for increasing the ceiling from inspiring English sources
They could then vote against increasing the ceiling with the comfort of knowing it will rise anyway.
The New York State Legislature renewed rent regulation laws last year, increasing the ceiling for a regulated apartment from $2,000 to $2,500 per month.
The rules of the single currency prevent the central bank from directly bailing out member states, and many in Germany feel that by repeatedly increasing the ceiling for Emergency Liquidity Assistance to Athens, the ECB is breaking that rule.
The debt ceiling crisis in 2011, in which Republicans demanded spending cuts in return for increasing the ceiling, prompted a volatile reaction in the markets and contributed to the first downgrade in the credit rating of the US government in history.
When Congress and the White House faced off two years ago over increasing the ceiling on the United States' debt, raising worries about a possible default, Chinese Internet users poured scorn on their own government for having invested so much of their country's savings in Treasuries.
Furthermore, developers are increasing the ceiling heights in luxury condos because tall ceilings are in vogue — and new technology allows them to provide them more efficiently".
By a vote of 68 to 29, the Senate approved a measure that would increase the ceiling on the national debt by $450 billion, to $6.4 trillion.
They had already dug down to increase the ceiling height of the garden-level kitchen and the basement playroom below that.
Or maybe it's telling that in Wake County, a proposal to increase the ceiling for low-income students from 40percentto50percentcent died a swift death last fall after concerted protest.
Congressional Republicans are again threatening not to increase the ceiling on the amount of federal government debt that can be issued.
