Sentence examples for leave measure from inspiring English sources

[Excerpts, Page A18.] The key to the outcome of the case lay in the chief justice's conclusion about exactly what problem Congress intended to address when it passed the family leave measure 10 years ago.

They have moved to gut a minimum wage hike and a paid sick leave measure that were intended to go on the ballot in November.

Now, advocates in Miami-Dade are also pushing for a sick leave measure there.

In Massachusetts, where 60% of voters supported a paid sick leave measure, Republican Charlie Baker, now the governor-elect, even introduced his own proposal for paid sick days (limiting them to employees at bigger firms, but still) after Democrat Martha Coakley tried to use the issue to drum up support.

And San Francisco passed the first fully paid parental leave measure in the country.

Baker opposed the sick leave measure, which voters ultimately approved 60-40, in favor of one that would carve out more businesses.

Various coordinative definitions may thus leave measures of other quantities or relations indeterminate, and these must be specified by some stipulation or other.

Four states -- California, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Washington -- have passed paid family leave measures (though Washington State's has not yet been implemented, due to lack of funding).

Its oblong leathery leaves measure up to 30 cm (12 inches) in length, and are periodically shed and replaced by new leaves that are strikingly red when young.

The small linear leaves measure 0.8 to 2.8 cm in length and 0.1 cm in width and are crowded along the stems.

The French reproduction cherry dresser ($5,287), left, measures 4 feet 10 inches high by 3 feet wide, and can be ordered in custom colors.